Processes and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 2097-2112

  Bürgi, Matthias ^a   Bieling, Claudia ^b   von Hackwitz, Kim ^c   Kizos, Thanasis ^d   Lieskovský, Juraj ^e   Martín, María García ^f   McCarthy, Sarah ^g   Müller, Matthias ^a   Palang, Hannes ^h   Plieninger, Tobias ⁱ   Printsmann, Anu ^h  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g Landscape Research Group Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^h TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Infrastructure; Land change science; Land cover change; Landscape history; Oral history interviews; Subsidies; Technology; Topographic maps

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; INFRASTRUCTURE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EUROPE;

EID: 85017112845     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-017-0513-z     Document Type: Article

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