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 …

Farmers are those who daily supervise and manage rural areas, but still their collaborations
with those institutions entitled to decide the transformation of these territories are not …

Dispersed urbanization has expanded into rural land worldwide. The present work focused
on the Athens' metropolitan area, the capital of Greece, discussing the potential role of a …

Part I: Introduction: Definition of a Discipline: Emergence of Landscape Ecology in the
History of Ecology; Recognition of Heterogeneity in Ecological Systems; Taking Human …

Austria is characterised by a high variety of different landscapes ranging from high mountain
areas to continental lowlands. Wilderness areas as well as traditionally maintained …

The increasing pace and scale of landscape changes involve objective measurements in
order to estimate the effects of changes on people's landscape preferences in a meaningful …

Land cover and land use changes can have a wide variety of ecological effects, including
significant impacts on soils and water quality. In rural areas, even subtle changes in farming …

This paper examines actual and contingent participation by Dutch arable farmers in
biodiversity conservation programmes. Probit and Tobit modelling were used to analyse the …

Research into farmers' decision‐making has traditionally focused on agricultural production,
though many researchers have perceived changes in the agricultural landscape as …

This research attempts to investigate what drives three conversions of arable land during the
period 1985–2000 in a marginal agricultural landscape in Southern Portugal: afforestation of …