The "Greening" measures of the EU's CAP, implemented in 2015, have been intensively debated in terms of their …-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) (with a particular emphasis on fallow land). We use annual land-use data at …, followed by fallow land and nitrogen-fixing crops. Fallow land decreased until 2015 and slightly increased with the …

Certificate trading schemes have been discussed as a cost-efficient means of reducing land use in Germany by capping … & trade scheme for land use, whereby tradable certificates are auctioned and grandfathered in equal shares. We find the cap …. Further, the timing and location of land use projects and the heterogeneity in income across municipalities are sensitive to …

impacts on the provision of ecosystem services. We rely on the EU's plot-based data from the Integrated Administration and … characterise agricultural land use and identify six types of agricultural landscapes. We rely on a two-step cluster analysis for a … hexagonal grid and find that agricultural land is dominated by cropland with different degrees of fragmentation. By providing a …

assessment by thoroughly exploring the time frame where initiatives might have an impact on local land use. It seems that … initiatives have an effect on local land use within five to nine years after they took place. Even though there is a negative …

Long-term studies of land system change can help providing insights into the relative importance of underlying drivers … of change. Here, we analyze land system change in Germany for the period 1883–2007 to trace the effect of drastic socio …-economic and institutional changes on land system dynamics. Germany is an especially interesting case study due to fundamentally …