Authors
Patrick Meyfroidt, Eric F Lambin, Karl-Heinz Erb, Thomas W Hertel
Publication date
2013/10/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
5
Issue
5
Pages
438-444
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Distant drivers, including remote market demand, increasingly influence land changes.
- Environmental policies have indirect and distant land use consequences.
- Biophysical accounting of flows embodied in trade show mixed patterns.
- Understanding causal links between flows and land changes require combining tools.
- Tools include economic models, place-based and value chain analyses, biophysical accounting.
Several streams of research have recently converged to identify the growing importance of distant drivers of land change, interconnections between social-ecological systems that are separated geographically, and the indirect consequences of land use changes. Local to national-scale interventions to promote sustainable land use may have unintended effects owing to a displacement of land use within and across countries. Such leakage or ‘indirect land use change’critically depends on …
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P Meyfroidt, EF Lambin, KH Erb, TW Hertel - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2013