Resilience-Based Perspectives to Guiding High-Nature-Value Farmland through Socioeconomic Change

Wood-pastures of Europe: Geographic coverage, social–ecological values, conservation management, and policy implications

“…A frequent driver of the abandonment of wood-pastures has been rural marginalization and decline of livestock farming (Plieninger and Bieling, 2013) and the introduction of organized forestry in areas previously managed as pastoral systems. Reduction or exclusion of livestock grazing in wooded pastures favours the encroachment of trees and shrubs.…”

“…Efforts to realign biodiversity conservation with agricultural production have recently gained momentum, as growing competition for land (Smith et al, 2010), urban land expansion (Seto et al, 2011), and land degradation (Plieninger and Gaertner, 2011) make it increasingly difficult to set aside large areas exclusively for biodiversity conservation. One prominent integrative strategy is High Nature Value (HNV) farming, a conservation approach that links ecology, land use, and public policies and expands conservation from traditional site protection to the scale of managed landscapes (Oppermann et al, 2012).…”

Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

“…A number of drivers though have led toward a fundamental decoupling, including agricultural industrialization, urbanization, and land abandonment. Although agricultural industrialization and urbanization have been the dominant drivers of the decoupling phenomenon in the more productive areas of Europe, the more marginal rural areas, i.e., those affected by physical constraints in terms of soils, topography, climate, and remoteness, have been affected by decoupling through competitive disadvantages of farming leading to widespread land abandonment, which has been further exacerbated through rural outmigration and other demographic and structural changes (Plieninger and Bieling 2013). (2006) have analyzed existing or missing linkages within landscapes and have found that these lead to practical consequences.…”

“…However, most of these driving forces do not have an impact on landscapes directly but rather through actors (Hersperger et al 2010). Whereas land use and land cover can also be analyzed at large scales, landscapes are closely linked to actors and their land-use practices (Bieling et al 2013). In particular, land users and landowners are sculptors of landscape development, as can be read, for example, in the composition and structure of forests (Schaich andPlieninger 2013, Rendenieks et al 2015).…”

Rights for resilience: food sovereignty, power, and resilience in development practice

“…Some resilience scholarship has focused on how alternative, marginal, or informal food production and resources, such as Landraces (Zimmerer 2014), wild edible plants (Shumsky et al 2014), adaption strategies of prehistoric smallscale farmers (Spielmann et al 2011), and farmers markets (Milestad et al 2010), contribute to building resilience. Other work has looked in a different direction, at how resilience concepts and frameworks can encourage sustainable land-use change in agriculture (Jansson andPolasky 2010, Pleininger andBieling 2013). Recently, Sellberg et al (2015) used the practical tools in the Assessing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems workbook (Resilience Alliance 2010) to understand sustainability challenges that were not addressed in normal municipal food security planning and operations.…”