There seems to be a general consensus nowadays among the public in many countries that
landscape transformation has accelerated drastically. This study examines the question if …

Landscape change is driven by various actors and forces which trigger a specific rate of
change. Today, many landscapes change in a direction and with a rate considered …

Over the past decades, urban sprawl and agricultural intensification have enormously
changed the traditional cultural landscape of the Swiss lowlands. This research aims to …

Urbanization is one of the fundamental characteristics of the European civilization. It
gradually spread from Southeast Europe around 700 bc, across the whole continent. Cities …

This research aims to identify the driving forces that changed the Limmat Valley west of
Zurich from a traditional agricultural valley in 1930 to a suburban region of the city of Zurich …

Over the past few decades, urbanization, agricultural intensification, and greening have
enormously changed the traditional cultural landscape of the study area in the Swiss …

Two case studies of cultural landscapes in Southern Germany were conducted to develop
appropriate techniques for quantifying and analysing the landscape change since 1850 …

To analyse human influences on rural landscapes in present-day central and northern
Europe and also to investigate sustainable landscape development concepts, an IALE …

We describe landscape changes in the context of a rapidly urbanizing mountain region,
around the city of Grenoble in the French Alps. By combining a multi-source merging method …

Landscape changes have been observed throughout rural Europe over the past decades in
relation to intensifying agriculture and land marginalisation. This is particularly true for …