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 …

Farmland abandonment in Europe is a major problem because of environmental,
socioeconomic and landscape implications. In this paper, a general view of the extent of …

During the past several decades, the Earth system has changed significantly, especially
across Northern Eurasia. Changes in the socio-economic conditions of the larger countries …

The concept of naturalness is one of the more studied concepts in landscape preference
research and describes how close a landscape is to a perceived natural state. In this study …

Agricultural land abandonment and the consequent natural forest regrowth in areas once
cultivated has significantly transformed Alpine ecosystems and landscapes. In this paper, we …

The underlying goal of the study is to further develop and refine an existing method for
making a detailed analysis of long-term changes in land cover on the basis of old Military …

Europe's cultural landscape has undergone notable changes in the last few decades. In
particular, conserving the cultural rural landscape of the Mediterranean basin constitutes a …

The expert-based approach to landscape assessment developed in North America during
the 1970s is still largely used in planning. It has proved its usefulness for the protection and …

The Norwegian area frame survey of land cover and outfield land resources (AR18X18),
completed in 2014, provided unbiased statistics of land cover in Norway. The article reports …

In the Highlands of Northern Ethiopia gully occurrence is linked to poverty-driven
unsustainable use of the land in a vulnerable semi-arid and mountainous environment …