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 …

Multifunctional peri-urban agriculture—A review of societal demands and the provision of goods and services by farming

I Zasada - Land use policy, 2011 - Elsevier
Peri-urban areas around urban agglomerations in Europe and elsewhere have been subject
to agricultural and land use research for the past three decades. The manner in which …

Pictures from the other side of the fringe: Urban growth and peri-urban agriculture in a post-industrial city (Toulouse, France)

I Duvernoy, I Zambon, A Sateriano, L Salvati - Journal of Rural Studies, 2018 - Elsevier
Peri-urban agriculture has preserved around central cities a land-use mosaic and
contributes to the sustainable growth of metropolitan regions constituting green …

Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: an urban perspective

D Reckien, F Creutzig, B Fernandez… - Environment and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming
decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of …

The peri-urbanization of Europe: A systematic review of a multifaceted process

BJ Shaw, J van Vliet, PH Verburg - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020 - Elsevier
Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

Peri-urbanisation and loss of arable land in Kumasi Metropolis in three decades: Evidence from remote sensing image analysis

K Abass, SK Adanu, S Agyemang - Land Use Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examined the effects of peri-urbanisation on arable land in Kumasi Metropolis.
The study involved classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) 1986 imagery and …

Determinants of urban expansion and agricultural land conversion in 25 EU countries

E Ustaoglu, B Williams - Environmental management, 2017 - Springer
Agricultural land conversion is resulting from ongoing complex interaction between the
physical environment, policy settings and socio-economic factors. Case studies of the …

Peri-urban food production and its relation to urban resilience

EGA Olsson, E Kerselaers, L Søderkvist Kristensen… - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Food production on the urban–rural fringe is under pressure due to competing land uses.
We discuss the potential to improve resilience for urban–rural regions by enhancing food …

Peri-urbanisation and multifunctional adaptation of agriculture around Copenhagen

I Zasada, C Fertner, A Piorr… - … Tidsskrift-Danish Journal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Geografisk Tidsskrift Danish Journal of Geography 111 (1): 59–72, 2011 Peri-
urbanisation, as a process of the physical expansion of settlement areas but also socio …

Professional urban agriculture and its characteristic business models in Metropolis Ruhr, Germany

B Pölling, M Mergenthaler, W Lorleberg - Land use policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract 'Low-cost specialization','differentiation', and 'diversification'are three overarching
business models of professional urban agriculture in developed countries. Manifold city …