Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

J Van Vliet, HLF de Groot, P Rietveld… - Landscape and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

Exploring multifunctional agriculture. A review of conceptual approaches and prospects for an integrative transitional framework

H Renting, WAH Rossing, JCJ Groot… - Journal of environmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …

Factors affecting European farmers' participation in biodiversity policies

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 …

Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: An international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration

JB Abrams, H Gosnell, NJ Gill… - Conservation and …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
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 …

An agent-based approach to model land-use change at a regional scale

D Valbuena, PH Verburg, AK Bregt, A Ligtenberg - Landscape ecology, 2010 - Springer
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 …

Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps

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 …

Leverage points for governing agricultural soils: A review of empirical studies of European farmers' decision-making

B Bartkowski, S Bartke - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

A method to define a typology for agent-based analysis in regional land-use research

D Valbuena, PH Verburg, AK Bregt - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2008 - Elsevier
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 …

Integrating agroecology and landscape multifunctionality in Vermont: An evolving framework to evaluate the design of agroecosystems

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 …

For a 'piece of bread'? Interpreting sustainable development through agritourism in Southern Tuscany

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 …