New demands on landscapes and natural resources call for multifunctional approaches to land development. Tools are required to identify the effects of land management on landscape sustainability and to support the decision-making process on the multipurpose utilisation of landscape resources. Scientists from across Europe installed the "Landscape Tomorrow" network to be prepared for new challenges in research to sustainable land development in an international perspective. This publication analyses general principles of landscape multifunctionality, develops methods to assess the sustainability of agricultural and forestry land management and identifies strategies of sustainable land management. Moreover, it contributes to the scientific basis for future land development strategies and helps support land use decision-making on the political, planning and management level.
Multifunctional landscapes and sustainable development.- The concept of multifunctionality in sustainable land development.- Sustainable development of European landscapes as a multidimensional environmental and societal issue.- Multifunctionality of landscapes and ecosystem services with respect to rural development.- Some aspects of multifunctional landscape character in the interdisciplinary environmental study.- Indicators of agricultural sustainability - the moral of a story.- The unconscious driving forces of landscape perception and formation.- Landscape characterisation and assessment.- A European landscape stratification reflecting drainage density.- Integration of spatio-temporal landscape analysis in model approaches.- Integrated land use zonation system in Hungary as a territorial base for agri-environmental programs.- The structure of landscapes in Poland as a function of agricultural land quality.- Pressure, state and response indicators in landscape assessment: An attempt on nitrogen fluxes.- Analyzing spatial habitat distribution to improve the assessment of land use impacts on habitat functions.- Sustainable land management and development.- Landscape functions in relation to agricultural management in Norway.- A review of sustainable landscape management in the UK.- Land management in Poland in a period of transformation.- Studies on agricultural landscape management in the Western Poland plain.- Managing interactions between agriculture, nature and economy.- Sustainable management of wood and timber fluxes in the region Ostprignitz-Ruppin, Germany.- Resume.- Landscape Tomorrow: a research network for sustainable development of multifunctional landscapes.- List of authors.- Key word index.
