Especially in environmentally sensitive agricultural landscapes, agriculture cannot define its aims by itself - it has to account for a number of demands of different groups of society. For example, agriculture is expected to produce food and at the same time contribute to the protection of...

Land use concepts for ecologically particularly sensitive agricultural landscapes are often focussed on the attainment of specific environmental objectives in specific areas, neglecting both socio-economic effects, in particular income effects, and the farmers' income-driven production responses...

Because of high population density in Europe agriculture cannot define its aims on its own but has to take account of quite a number of demands from different actors. For instance, agriculture is expected to produce food and at the same time to contribute to the protection of cultural landscapes...

Vor allem in naturschutzfachlich bedeutsamen Gebieten muss die landwirtschaftliche Flächennutzung vielfach auch nicht-landwirtschaftliche Gesichtspunkte berücksichtigen. So wird von der Landwirtschaft beispielsweise erwartet, dass sie neben der Produktion hochwertiger Nahrungsmittel auch zur...

Agricultural landscape is a complex system composed by interrelated ecological, economic and social sub-systems. Disentangling interactions and mechanisms in such a context is, therefore, difficult and involves knowledge and methodologies developed in different scientific fields. In this paper...

Agricultural landscapes are important elements of European culture. There is an increasing recognition that agricultural landscapes represent economic assets; not only because of the production of agricultural commodities, but also by offering significant opportunities for the socioeconomic...

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler erbringen vielfältige Leistungen in Forschung, Lehre, Transfer sowie Dienstleistungen für die Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. Zur Beantwortung der Frage, wie diese verschiedenen Leistungen bewertet werden, wurde 2016 eine Mitgliederbefragung der...