Over the past decades, landscapes worldwide have experienced changes (eg, urbanization,
agricultural intensification, expansion of renewable energy uses) at magnitudes that put their …

Landscapes are closely linked to human well-being, but they are undergoing rapid and
fundamental change. Understanding the societal transformation underlying these landscape …

To date land-change science has devoted little attention to spatial policy and planning in
urban landscapes despite the widely accepted premise that planning affects urban land …

Agricultural land conversion is resulting from ongoing complex interaction between the
physical environment, policy settings and socio-economic factors. Case studies of the …

Cultural landscapes are appreciated for the plethora of ecosystem services that they provide
to society. They are, however, subject to rapid and fundamental transformations across …

Dehesas and montados are Mediterranean agroforestry systems characterized by scattered
oak trees with an understory grazed extensively by livestock and, in some cases …

In the context of accelerating environmental change, there is an urgent need to identify
ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management strategies likely to support …

Human societies constantly interact with the environment through mutual feedbacks and
adaptations. The aim of this research was to analyze human and environmental dimensions …

In times of unprecedented climate change, ecological restoration efforts have a strong focus
on forests for the purpose of carbon sequestration. Grasslands, in contrast, remain relatively …

Global changes impact the human-environment relationship, and, in particular, they affect
the provision of ecosystem services. Mountain ecosystems provide a wide range of such …