Resilience-based perspectives to guiding high-nature-value farmland through socioeconomic change

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Plieninger, Tobias ^a   Bieling, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscapes; Agricultural management; Ecosystem stewardship; Europe; Farmland habitats; Landscape change; Resilience framework

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84884955910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05877-180420     Document Type: Article

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