MAIN DRIVERS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USE CHANGE IN EUROPE

During the last decade, as our Planet became more vulnerable, the demand for improved knowledge of environmental process and the impact of human activity oil their dynamic increased. It is there for clear how important agricultural land use change is for European environment in all its varied components. Different factors, including demographic trends, economic growth and affluence, technology, agricultural and rural policies, institutional structure, attitudes and social values and other key driving forces, lead to changes of of land use and land cover, which result in a range of impacts oil yields, farm income, biodiversity, landscape identity water quality, flooding, greenhouse gas emissions, soil erosion. Information about causal relationships driving land use development is needed to build models of land-use and land cover change, the result of them help governments and other agencies to shape land-use decisions by creating the incentives that motivate individual decision makers in changing their practice toward sustainability. This paper presents the main drivers of European land use change, focusing on regional differences of them and their impacts.