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Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

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Lambin, Eric [UCL] Meyfroidt, Patrick [UCL]

A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challenge for developing countries confronts the force of economic globalization, which seeks cropland that is shrinking in availability and triggers deforestation. Four mechanisms—the displacement, rebound, cascade, and remittance effects—that are amplified by economic globalization accelerate land conversion. A few developing countries have managed a land use transition over the recent decades that simultaneously increased their forest cover and agricultural production. These countries have relied on various mixes of agricultural intensification, land use zoning, forest protection, increased reliance on imported food and wood products, the creation of off-farm jobs, foreign capital investments, and remittances. Sound policies and innovations can therefore reconcile forest preservation with food production. Globalization can be harnessed to increase land use efficiency rather than leading to uncontrolled land use expansion. To do so, land systems should be understood and modeled as open systems with large flows of goods, people, and capital that connect local land use with global-scale factors.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2011
Language Anglais
Journal information "Proceedings of the National academy of sciences of the United States of America" - Vol. 108, no. 9, p. 3465-3472 (2011)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher National academy of sciences ((United States) Washington, D.C.)
issn 0027-8424
e-issn 1091-6490
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
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Bibliographic reference Lambin, Eric ; Meyfroidt, Patrick. Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity. In: Proceedings of the National academy of sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, no. 9, p. 3465-3472 (2011)
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