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Nina Schneeberger
Bio: Nina Schneeberger is an academic researcher from Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Landscape history & Cultural landscape. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 848 citations.
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TL;DR: The proposed research directions include: studying landscape change across borders and transects, focusing on persistence as well as change, investigating rates of change, considering attractors of landscape change, targeting correlation and causality, and searching for precursors of landscapes change.
Abstract: The concept of driving forces is gaining increasing attention in landscape-change research. We summarize the state of the art of this field and present new conceptual and methodological directions for the study of driving forces of landscape changes. These new directions address four major challenges faced by landscape-change studies, i.e., studying processes and not merely spatial patterns, extrapolating results in space and time, linking data of different qualities, and considering culture as a driver of landscape change. The proposed research directions include: studying landscape change across borders and transects, focusing on persistence as well as change, investigating rates of change, considering attractors of landscape change, targeting correlation and causality, and searching for precursors of landscape change. Based on established knowledge and the new approaches we outline a standard procedure to study driving forces of landscape change. We anticipate that our analytical and systematic approach increases the relevance of studies of landscape change for science as well as for the solution of real world problems.
683 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied actors and driving forces of landscape change of the last 120 years in five areas on the northern fringe of the Swiss Alps and compared the relative contributions of different actors.
121 citations
TL;DR: This study examines the question if cultural landscape change has really accelerated during the 20th century on the border of the Swiss Alps and found considerable variation in transformation rates according to the local context and topographical conditions.
78 citations
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of these sources usually provide reliable historical information, if based on a critical analysis of the quality and background of the data, including cross-checking information from the different data sources.
Abstract: Landscapes must be understood as dynamic time-dependent entities rather than static associscapes, oral, written, (carto-)graphic and ecological sources can be used. Combinations of these sources usually provide reliable historical information, if based on a critical analysis of the quality and background of the data, including cross-checking information from the different data sources. The general public, planners, politicians, land managers, ecological modelers, and restoration ecologists are just some of the potential users of landscape history.
27 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of remote sensing images, landscape metrics and gradient analysis is employed to analyze and compare both the spatial and temporal dynamics of urban sprawl in Guangzhou, China.
420 citations
TL;DR: It is pointed out that, given the rapidity of the observed changes, it is critical that additional studies be undertaken to evaluate these suggested policies, focusing on what their effects might be in this region, and how these might be implemented.
393 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a spatially explicit, dynamic, land use change model has been used to translate European level scenarios into a high resolution assessment of changes in land use for the 25 countries of the European Union.
377 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic review of case study evidence on manifestations and underlying drivers for agricultural land use change in Europe, and find that farmers were very important as moderators between underlying drivers and manifestations of agricultural land-use change.
377 citations