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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2009
    Switzerland, United States of America, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Ghana, Norway, Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, Northern America, South America, Oceania

    The paper reveals that ever since the 1950s, after the first land reform of distributing landownership (or possession under public ownership) to small farmers, the irrational and polyopolisticland use by able-bodied part-time and absent small farmers earning higher off-farm income butunwilling to lease the under-producing land beyond their family consumption need to full-timefarmers, has been a global obstacle with both public and private land ownership, traditional andmodern agriculture, fragmented small and consolidatorily enlarged land, low and high incomeeconomies, food under-self-suffi

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Switzerland, Norway, Europe

    This paper presents a range of future, spatially explicit, land use change scenarios for the EU15, Norway and Switzerland based on an interpretation of the global storylines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that are presented in the special report on emissions scenarios (SRES). The methodology is based on a qualitative interpretation of the SRES storylines for the European region, an estimation of the aggregate totals of land use change using various land use change models and the allocation of these aggregate quantities in space using spatially explicit rules.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Switzerland, Norway, Europe

    AIM: The rate of climate change might exceed the migration capacity of plants, particularly where habitats became fragmented by human land use. Except for some tree species, the extent to which habitat fragmentation decreases migration rates has nevertheless been little evaluated. Here, we compare simulated migration rates of understorey herbs, which comprise the big part of temperate forest plant diversity, under varying levels of fragmentation at a continental scale. LOCATION: Europe.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Switzerland, Norway

    This study develops an approach to mapping indicators of the potential of ecosystems to supply ecosystem services, and the impact of changes in land cover and use upon them. The study focuses on the EU-25 plus Switzerland and Norway, and develops the methodology proposed by Kienast et al. (2009), which uses expert-and literature-driven modelling methods. The methods are explored in relation to mapping and assessing four of the ecosystem services: “Crop-based production”; “Wildlife products”; “Habitat diversity”; and “Recreation”.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Austria

    Farmers are key actors in land management confronted with society’s increasing demand for public goods. Understanding farmers’ values and motivations is essential to policy makers to foster more sustainable production practices. So far, no definite value profile for European farmers exists. Based on Schwartz’s theory of basic human values, we statistically analyzed six rounds of the European Social Survey to explore farmers’ value orientations in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Hungary, Switzerland, Norway

    A termőföld kérdése a „rendszerváltástól” kezdődően új megvilágításba került. Az azt megelőző évtizedekben hazánkban uralkodó marxi munkaérték-elmélet alapján a termőföldnek, mint a mezőgazdaság legfőbb termelési tényezőjének – mivel az nem a munka eredményeként keletkezett – hivatalosan nem volt értéke. Nem létezett valójában földpiac sem. A magántulajdon körében hagyott kis parcellák esetenkénti adásvétele még csak jelzőértékként sem volt értelmezhető a föld árára vonatkozóan.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Switzerland, Norway, Europe

    The structure of agricultural production and spatial patterns of agricultural land use in Europe are expected to face major changes over the next decades due to changes in global trade, technology, demography and policies. This paper presents a set of 25 scenarios comprising information on quantitative land use changes in Europe. The scenarios have been selected from studies with different foci, operating on both different spatial scales and different time horizons.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    France, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Finland, Netherlands, Europe

    In this pilot study, we examine the relationship between the organisation of property rights and the economic importance of forestry on the one hand and the degree to which integrative nature conservation is formally implemented in forest policy on the other hand. Further, we are interested in whether political institutions moderate this relationship.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Switzerland, Norway

    There is a strong trend toward reforestation of abandoned grasslands in alpine regions which may impact the carbon balance of alpine ecosystems. Here, we studied the effects of afforestation with Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) on an extensively grazed subalpine pasture in Switzerland on soil organic carbon (SOC) cycling and storage. Along a 120-year long chronosequence with spruce stands of 25, 30, 40, 45, and >120� years and adjacent pastures, we measured tree biomass, SOC stocks down to the bedrock, natural ¹³C abundances, and litter quality.

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