In the last decade the multifunctional agriculture (MFA) concept has emerged as a key notion in scientific and policy debates on the future of agriculture and rural development …
R Siebert, M Toogood, A Knierim - Sociologia ruralis, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports the major findings from an interdisciplinary research project that synthesises key insights into farmers' willingness and ability to co‐operate with biodiversity …
The term 'amenity migration'describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature …
Land-use/cover change (LUCC) is a complex process that includes actors and factors at different social and spatial levels. A common approach to analyse and simulate LUCC as …
B Bartkowski, C Schüßler, B Müller - Regional Environmental Change, 2022 - Springer
Understanding farmers' behaviour and their different responses to environmental change, institutional change and policy interventions is important to facilitate the understanding of the …
What drives farmers' decision-making? To inform effective, efficient, and legitimate governance of agricultural soils, it is important to understand the behaviour of those who …
Land use/cover change (LUCC) is often the cumulative result of individual farmer's decisions. To understand and simulate LUCC as the result of local decisions, multi-agent …
ST Lovell, CA Nathan, MB Olson, VE Mendez… - Agricultural …, 2010 - Elsevier
Agroecosystems cover vast areas of land worldwide and are known to have a large impact on the environment, yet these highly modified landscapes are rarely considered as …
R Sonnino - Sociologia ruralis, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Under global conditions that threaten the viability of rural economies and the farm sector, Italian legislation supports both through agritourism, a form of rural tourism conceived to …