Landscapes Blog

November 8, 2016

Characterizing the landscape approach across Europe

María García-MartínUniversity of Freiburg Claudia BielingUniversity of Hohenheim Tobias PlieningerUniversity of Copenhagen

HERCULES project helps demonstrate how landscape initiatives in Europe foster the integrated management of the landscapes where they act. The landscape approach is gaining attention all over the world as a way of addressing the complexity that the integrated management of the land requires. This approach is characterized by its holistic understanding of the land (considering ...
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September 5, 2014

European Wood-Pastures as Cultural Landscapes

Tibor HartelSapientia University, Romania Tobias PlieningerUniversity of Copenhagen

European landscapes are shaped by long-lasting, intensive and complex interactions between people and nature. This interaction has generated values that are appreciated by society, nowadays called “landscape values” or “ecosystem services,” but many of these cultural landscape values are in decline. Wood-pastures—combinations of grazing lands with scattered trees—ar ...
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September 26, 2012

Motivating Management for Ecosystem Services

Tobias PlieningerUniversity of Copenhagen

The Landscapes Blog has been focusing attention on biodiversity this month and in the lead-up to the Convention on Biological Diversity in October. Dr. Tobias Plieninger, Head of the Ecosystem Services Research Group at the Berlin-Brandenberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, rejoins the Landscapes Blog to report on a recent article on landowner motivations to [& ...
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