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Ecosystem Services Under Pressure

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Three ‘megatrends’ have had a particular influence on ecosystem service provision and trade-offs in Europe. These are (i) the globalization of industrial and agricultural production, (ii) the changing lifestyles of a post-industrial society and (iii) the production of green energy. This chapter discusses the pressures arising from these trends and employs land use/cover data to cluster European landscapes into regions with similar changes in land use and associated ecosystem services.

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    All ecosystem services mentioned in this chapter are named after the CICES 4.3 classification, see Haines-Young and Potschin (2013).

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Felix Kienast

  2. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Julian Helfenstein

  3. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Zurich, Switzerland

    Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

  4. Fabis Consulting Ltd, Nottingham, UK

    Roy Haines-Young & Marion Potschin

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  1. Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Christina von Haaren

  2. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Andrew A. Lovett

  3. Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Christian Albert

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Kienast, F., Helfenstein, J., Grêt-Regamey, A., Haines-Young, R., Potschin, M. (2019). Ecosystem Services Under Pressure. In: von Haaren, C., Lovett, A., Albert, C. (eds) Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services. Landscape Series, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1681-7_7

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