Is the abandonment of traditional livestock farming systems the main driver of mountain landscape change in Alpine areas

By G. Cocca, E. Sturaro, L. Gallo, M. Ramanzin. 2012

169 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Guanrong Yao
2. Hualin Xie
3. Peter H. Verburg
4. Peng Wang
5. Wolfgang Britz
6. A. Hochkirch

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Peter H. Verburg

Citations in the corpus

• The effects of grassland management and aspect on Orthoptera diversity and abundance: site conditions are as important as management (2013, background): “On the other hand, the difficulty to intensify grassland management on steep slopes can also trigger abandonment, which would then lead to a loss of the most important sites for nature conservation (Cocca et al. 2012).”
• Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU (2013, background): “This is due to the fact that the reforms are predicted to hit the more extensive forms of agriculture (grazing cattle and sheep) with significant areas on these farms predicted to go out of production (Cocca et al., 2012).”
• Exploring the Dynamic Mechanisms of Farmland Abandonment Based on a Spatially Explicit Economic Model for Environmental Sustainability: A Case Study in Jiangxi Province, China (2014, background): “At the regional scale, socio-economic factors become important driving variables [24].”