{"id":193,"date":"2023-10-20T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europe-land.eu\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:41:13","slug":"about-europe-land","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/europe-land.eu\/lv\/about-europe-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Par Europe-LAND"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Land-use changes are a root cause for many sustainability challenges, such as food security, climate change and biodiversity loss. A profound understanding of land-use changes is therefore essential to foster a better understanding of the human interactions with the environment. Obtaining a deeper knowledge of the dynamics of land-use change and its underlying factors, together with an assessment of the effectiveness of different land management practices at various scales in providing sustainable solutions, represent important milestones for tackling climate change and biodiversity challenges. Focusing on Europe, Europe-LAND will provide a better understanding of these multiple interactions, synergies and trade-offs amongst the factors that influence land-use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our project vision is to facilitate targeted interventions for land-use in Europe by broadening our understanding of what drives and motivates land-use decisions, in order to gain a national, regional and pan-European vision that supports policy objectives such as climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as biodiversity conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe-LAND is funded by the Horizon Europe program of the European Union<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In Europe-LAND, we are pursuing a set of national-level analyses (e.g. harmonization of fragmented data) and land-use surveys, implemented by eight local case studies as demonstrators, as well as comprehensive capacity-building to identify, develop, test and implement integrated tools to improve the understanding of the drivers behind land-use decisions as well as stakeholders\u2019 awareness and engagement regarding climate change and biodiversity challenges in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe-LAND measures how actors at various organizational levels use land and what drives their behavior. This behavior will be further explored by analyzing the decision-making behind the behavior, the factors influencing the decision-making, and the role of climate change and biodiversity challenges when deciding how to make use of land. We will map future expected land-use patterns, also comparing past and current situations as well as future trends. Adding an additional qualitative dimension through an empirical analysis of the Europe-LAND case studies, we will construct and test a conceptual telecoupling framework to analyze land-use strategies. Finally, a dedicated toolbox will enable project stakeholders such as policymakers, authorities, regulatory agencies, farm federations and agricultural organizations, spatial planning engineers, NGOs and further to identify in both spatial and temporal terms, how planned actions may affect current and future land use in a given region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synthesising, promoting and upscaling of project results will be ensured through a solid set of information, communication and upscaling as well as capacity-building to bridge the gap between theory and practical innovations. Europe-LAND will motivate stakeholders to actively engage in the project’s capacity-building actions to gain new knowledge, increase awareness of climate change and biodiversity challenges and learn about innovative approaches towards a more sustainable land-use and land management across Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Resembling a cross-cutting element, eight case studies from different parts of Europe have been selected, comprising Biosphere Reserves and LTSER platforms. Whereas Biosphere Reserves resemble sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and managing changes and interactions of socio-ecologic systems, the Long-Term Ecosystem Research is another essential component of world-wide efforts to better understand ecosystems. Europe-LAND’s case studies which provide an adequate coverage of various European regions, serve to illustrate a wide range of land-use contexts and variables from which valuable lessons can be drawn for sustainable land-use. Click on the tabs below to learn more about each case study region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n