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Rural areas need to fulfil a large variety of functions and accommodate many activities such as agriculture, forestry, nature conservation, water resources development, outdoor recreation and many others. As a result, the quality of the rural environment as a whole is under pressure. These pressures are caused in particular by claims on space (e.g. urbanization and infrastructure), agricultural production and its environmental effects (e.g. eutrofication, man-induced drought, acidification and inherited pollution), and non-agricultural activities and their environmental effects (e.g. disturbance of nature areas by outdoor recreation functions).
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Schoute, J.F.T., Veeneklaas, F.R., van den Berg, L.M. (1995). General Introduction. In: Schoute, J.F.T., Finke, P.A., Veeneklaas, F.R., Wolfert, H.P. (eds) Scenario Studies for the Rural Environment. Environment & Policy, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0441-8_1
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