During the last 50 years, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has impacted the evolution
of European agricultural landscapes by driving changes in land use and farming practices …

Agriculture is both a large-scale user of land and a provider of landscapes. The adaptation
of agricultural practices to local conditions has led to a wide variety of" cultural landscapes" …

The theoretical benefits of collaborative landscape-scale approaches to agri-environmental
land management have been widely discussed. However, there is little empirical study of the …

Several studies show that agri-environment schemes (AES) are likely to be more effective if
they are designed at the landscape scale. However, this requires spatial coordination of …

Intensively managed agricultural areas in North-Western Europe have been undergoing a
shift from solely production oriented use to provision of multiple services and functions …

European policies and instruments such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and
many instruments for nature and landscape conservation in Europe have for some decades …

While multiple studies have identified land managers' preferences for agri-environmental
schemes (AES), few approaches exist for integrating different understandings of landscape …

Agrienvironmental schemes (AES) have been a predominant manifestation of environmental
policy Integration in the EU. However, rather than strictly following formal AES policy …

In Europe most conservation values, from biodiversity to scenic sites, are integral parts of
agricultural landscapes. When these landscapes change as a result of agricultural policies …

Since the 1950s, intensification and scale enlargement of agriculture have changed
agricultural landscapes across Europe. The intensification and scale enlargement of farming …