Introduction European Landscapes are subject to profound and ongoing changes (Lambin and Geist 2006; Feranec et al. 2007).The high rate and especially the direction of landscape change are increasingly perceived by society as problematic. To guide the change in a socially more desired direction, landscape management and planning have to address the underlying processes of landscape change. These processes can only be revealed by a comprehensive analysis of landscape change, including descriptive as well as analytical approaches. In this paper, we present three approaches to analyse regional landscape changes, which can be applied separately, but also in combination.