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 …

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 …

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

Understanding global landscape dynamics is a core challenge for the newly emerged field
of land change science. Such an understanding requires insights into general pattern of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The article compares and points out differences in driving forces of four main landscape
change processes that shaped post-socialist countries and old democratic countries of …

In many mountain regions, there have been dramatic changes in agricultural land use in
recent decades. In some cases, these are related to changes in technology, such as the …