David I. McCracken

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a historical perspective on the development of conflicts related to biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and evaluate strategies to reconcile such conflicts, emphasizing the need for monitoring as an integral part of conflict reconciliation strategies.

TL;DR: The historical role of agriculture in creating semi-natural vegetation is still not fully appreciated, and too much emphasis is placed on attempting to ameliorate damaging effects of agricultural management rather than supporting ecologically sustainable low-intensity farming practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential impact of agricultural and trade policy reform on land-use across the EU focussing particularly on the issue of land abandonment and found that around 8 per cent less land will be farmed under these reforms than under the baseline situation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the drivers of biodiversity conflicts are analysed in a European context for five habitat types: agricultural landscapes, forests, grasslands, uplands and freshwater habitats, with active stakeholder involvement at every stage of conflict identification and management as well as a range of other approaches including stakeholder dialogue and education, consumer education, improvement of political and legislative frameworks, financial incentives, and planning infrastructure.

TL;DR: The European landscape reflects many centuries of dynamic interaction between people and their natural environments Indeed, much of the current biological and aesthetic value of the wide variety of natural environments can be traced to the interaction between humans and their environments as mentioned in this paper.