Tobias Plieninger is Head of the Ecosystem Services Research Group at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Research Fellow at the Geography Department, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. He is an environmental scientist with a commitment to inter- and transdisciplinary landscape research. He has researched and published extensively on the driving forces, processes and impacts of change in European cultural landscapes at various spatial and temporal scales. He serves on the committees of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) and the IUCN European Sustainable Use Specialists Group. Claudia Bieling is a landscape researcher at the Institute for Landscape Management at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Focusing on the mutual relations between people and place, she investigates land use and its various meanings for small-scale landowners and society. Her work particularly addresses landscape perceptions, immaterial benefits provided by landscapes ('cultural ecosystem services') and nature and heritage preservation in the context of private land use. She has studied these topics in an array of interdisciplinary projects on different land use forms, ranging from livestock husbandry and viticulture to forestry practices, and in different European regions.