Agriculture and landscape interaction-landowners' decision-making and drivers of land use change in rural Europe

Agricultural land use has a large impact on landscape diversity and the types and quality of the services landscapes provide to society. This editorial introduces four papers in a themed section of Land Use Policy which examines different themes related to agriculture and landscape interaction. The papers present new findings from research undertaken within the scope of the VOLANTE research project (Kristensen et al., 2013). The main objective of the research was to increase our knowledge about landowners' decision-making processes and drivers of land use change in rural Europe.