Terrestrial ecosystems provide a number of vital services for people and society, such as
biodiversity, food, fibre, water resources, carbon sequestration, and recreation. The future …

Terrestrial ecosystems provide a number of vital services for people and society, such as
food, fibre, water resources, carbon sequestration, and recreation. The future capability of …

Environmental change alters ecosystem functioning and may put the provision of services to
human at risk. This paper presents a spatially explicit and quantitative assessment of the …

Over the next century, society will increasingly be confronted with the impacts of global
change (eg pollution, land use changes, and climate change). Multiple scenarios provide us …

A method is proposed for assessing the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems that is
explicitly linked to multiple stakeholder values enabling multiple assessments of …

Environmental and socio-economic developments induce land-use changes with potentially
negative impacts on human well-being. To counteract undesired developments, a profound …

To safeguard the sustainable use of ecosystems and their services, early detection of
potentially damaging changes in functional capabilities is needed. To support a proper …

The eight papers in this special issue provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in land use
scenario development at the European scale. The results of the Advanced Ecosystem …

Highlights•Changes to the land system have direct impacts on ecosystem services.•Complex
socio-ecological dynamics are characteristic of ecosystem service supply and use.•The land …

Agricultural practices are essential for sustaining the human population, but at the same time
they can directly disrupt ecosystem functioning. Ecological risk assessment (ERA) aims to …