TY - JOUR
T1 - Back to the future
T2 - rethinking socioecological systems underlying high nature value farmlands
AU - Lomba, Angela
AU - Moreira, Francisco
AU - Klimek, Sebastian
AU - Jongman, Robert H.G.
AU - Sullivan, Caroline
AU - Moran, James
AU - Poux, Xavier
AU - Honrado, João P.
AU - Pinto-Correia, Teresa
AU - Plieninger, Tobias
AU - McCracken, David I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment published by Wiley Periodicals Inc. on behalf of the Ecological Society of America.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - Farmlands are currently among the dominant uses of the land. When managed under low-input farming systems, farmlands are associated with diverse cultural and natural heritages around the world. Known in Europe as high nature value (HNV) farmlands, these agricultural landscapes and their associated farming systems evolved as tightly coupled socioecological systems, and are essential to biodiversity conservation and the delivery of ecosystem services to society. However, HNV farmlands are vulnerable to socioeconomic changes that lead to either agricultural intensification or land abandonment. We present a range of plausible future scenarios for HNV farmlands, and discuss the related management options and expected socioecological outcomes for each scenario. We then provide recommendations for policy, practice, and research on how to best ensure the socioecological viability of HNV farming systems in the future.
AB - Farmlands are currently among the dominant uses of the land. When managed under low-input farming systems, farmlands are associated with diverse cultural and natural heritages around the world. Known in Europe as high nature value (HNV) farmlands, these agricultural landscapes and their associated farming systems evolved as tightly coupled socioecological systems, and are essential to biodiversity conservation and the delivery of ecosystem services to society. However, HNV farmlands are vulnerable to socioeconomic changes that lead to either agricultural intensification or land abandonment. We present a range of plausible future scenarios for HNV farmlands, and discuss the related management options and expected socioecological outcomes for each scenario. We then provide recommendations for policy, practice, and research on how to best ensure the socioecological viability of HNV farming systems in the future.
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U2 - 10.1002/fee.2116
DO - 10.1002/fee.2116
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076533535
SN - 1540-9295
VL - 18
SP - 36
EP - 42
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
IS - 1
ER -
