Ecosystem Services Under Pressure

Abstract

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.