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

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

Context The reasons for recent landscape change in the European countryside are complex
and poorly substantiated. Identification of drivers of landscape transition and assessment of …

Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to
understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet …

Explorations of future land use change are important to understand potential conflicts
between competing land uses, trade-offs associated with particular land change trajectories …

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

Context Cultural landscapes evolve over time. However, the rate and direction of change
might not be in line with societal needs and more information on the forces driving these …

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 …

Land-use and land-cover change profoundly affect human well-being and, therefore, have
become a major topic for society. A thorough understanding of past and present processes …

Land use is a cornerstone of human civilization, but also intrinsically linked to many global
sustainability challenges—from climate change to food security to the ongoing biodiversity …