human activities induced changes in land cover/use have extensive impacts on the landscape. in recent years, these changes had an increasingly growth due to irrational use of the natural resources in iran. hence, considering the negative effects of the inappropriate use of land and land-use change, understanding of the landscape changes over time is necessary to planning and implementation of s...

Making decisions on landscape futures is challenging to decision makers as land uses have differing, often conflicting objectives. Appropriate landscape management is especially important in areas dominated by production forests and a range of potential scenarios can be developed by applying different management practices, in varying spatial patterns across the landscape. This paper describes a...

In the last years the environmental awareness has strengthened because of the rareness or destruction of natural resources, increase of the costs as well as environmental problems and environmental impacts. Hence these require constantly environment-relevant control and agreement with enterprise purposes. These tasks assume the application of the environmental information management, which perf...

Sustainable forest management is based on functional relationships between management actions, landscape conditions, and forest values. Changes in management practices make it fundamentally more difficult to study these relationships because the impacts of current practices are difficult to disentangle from the persistent influences of past practices. Within the Atlantic Northern Forest of Main...

While budgets for agri-environmental policy in OECD countries are rapidly increasing with current policy reforms, information about the locally varying demands for policies implemented at various levels of government remains scarce. In this study, a median voter framework is used to analyse the demand for landscape management services based on the expenditures of sub-federal governments for two...

We develop a landscape stewardship classification which distinguishes between farmers' understanding of landscape stewardship, their landscape values, and land management actions. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with small-holder (<5 acres), medium-holders (5-100 acres), and large-holders (>100 acres) in South-West Devon, UK. Thematic analysis revealed four types of stewardship ...