Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania

Land Use Policy

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-72

  Beilin, Ruth ^a   Lindborg, Regina ^b   Stenseke, Marie ^c   Pereira, Henrique Miguel ^d   Llausàs, Albert ^a,e   Slätmo, Elin ^c   Cerqueira, Yvonne ^f   Navarro, Laetitia ^d   Rodrigues, Patrícia ^d   Reichelt, Nicole ^a   Munro, Nicola ^g   Queiroz, Cibele ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Farming; Interdisciplinary; Land management; Land use change; Social drivers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BIODIVERSITY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; DAIRY FARMING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

AUSTRALIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PORTUGAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 84883810689     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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