Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
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Ten facts about land systems for sustainability. / Meyfroidt, Patrick; de Bremond, Ariane; Ryan, Casey M.; Archer, Emma; Aspinall, Richard; Chhabra, Abha; Camara, Gilberto; Corbera, Esteve; DeFries, Ruth; Díaz, Sandra; Dong, Jinwei; Ellis, Erle C.; Erb, Karl Heinz; Fisher, Janet A.; Garrett, Rachael D.; Golubiewski, Nancy E.; Grau, H. Ricardo; Grove, J. Morgan; Haberl, Helmut; Heinimann, Andreas; Hostert, Patrick; Jobbágy, Esteban G.; Kerr, Suzi; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Lambin, Eric F.; Lavorel, Sandra; Lele, Sharachandra; Mertz, Ole; Messerli, Peter; Metternicht, Graciela; Munroe, Darla K.; Nagendra, Harini; Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard; Ojima, Dennis S.; Parker, Dawn Cassandra; Pascual, Unai; Porter, John R.; Ramankutty, Navin; Reenberg, Anette; Roy Chowdhury, Rinku; Seto, Karen C.; Seufert, Verena; Shibata, Hideaki; Thomson, Allison; Turner, Billie L.; Urabe, Jotaro; Veldkamp, Tom; Verburg, Peter H.; Zeleke, Gete; Zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K.H.J.
I: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Bind 119, Nr. 7, e2109217118, 2022.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
AU - Meyfroidt, Patrick
AU - de Bremond, Ariane
AU - Ryan, Casey M.
AU - Archer, Emma
AU - Aspinall, Richard
AU - Chhabra, Abha
AU - Camara, Gilberto
AU - Corbera, Esteve
AU - DeFries, Ruth
AU - Díaz, Sandra
AU - Dong, Jinwei
AU - Ellis, Erle C.
AU - Erb, Karl Heinz
AU - Fisher, Janet A.
AU - Garrett, Rachael D.
AU - Golubiewski, Nancy E.
AU - Grau, H. Ricardo
AU - Grove, J. Morgan
AU - Haberl, Helmut
AU - Heinimann, Andreas
AU - Hostert, Patrick
AU - Jobbágy, Esteban G.
AU - Kerr, Suzi
AU - Kuemmerle, Tobias
AU - Lambin, Eric F.
AU - Lavorel, Sandra
AU - Lele, Sharachandra
AU - Mertz, Ole
AU - Messerli, Peter
AU - Metternicht, Graciela
AU - Munroe, Darla K.
AU - Nagendra, Harini
AU - Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard
AU - Ojima, Dennis S.
AU - Parker, Dawn Cassandra
AU - Pascual, Unai
AU - Porter, John R.
AU - Ramankutty, Navin
AU - Reenberg, Anette
AU - Roy Chowdhury, Rinku
AU - Seto, Karen C.
AU - Seufert, Verena
AU - Shibata, Hideaki
AU - Thomson, Allison
AU - Turner, Billie L.
AU - Urabe, Jotaro
AU - Veldkamp, Tom
AU - Verburg, Peter H.
AU - Zeleke, Gete
AU - Zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K.H.J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help to explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in land use and thus also point toward solutions. The 10 facts are as follows: 1) Meanings and values of land are socially constructed and contested; 2) land systems exhibit complex behaviors with abrupt, hard-to-predict changes; 3) irreversible changes and path dependence are common features of land systems; 4) some land uses have a small footprint but very large impacts; 5) drivers and impacts of land-use change are globally interconnected and spill over to distant locations; 6) humanity lives on a used planet where all land provides benefits to societies; 7) land-use change usually entails trade-offs between different benefits-"win-wins" are thus rare; 8) land tenure and land-use claims are often unclear, overlapping, and contested; 9) the benefits and burdens from land are unequally distributed; and 10) land users have multiple, sometimes conflicting, ideas of what social and environmental justice entails. The facts have implications for governance, but do not provide fixed answers. Instead they constitute a set of core principles which can guide scientists, policy makers, and practitioners toward meeting sustainability challenges in land use.
AB - Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help to explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in land use and thus also point toward solutions. The 10 facts are as follows: 1) Meanings and values of land are socially constructed and contested; 2) land systems exhibit complex behaviors with abrupt, hard-to-predict changes; 3) irreversible changes and path dependence are common features of land systems; 4) some land uses have a small footprint but very large impacts; 5) drivers and impacts of land-use change are globally interconnected and spill over to distant locations; 6) humanity lives on a used planet where all land provides benefits to societies; 7) land-use change usually entails trade-offs between different benefits-"win-wins" are thus rare; 8) land tenure and land-use claims are often unclear, overlapping, and contested; 9) the benefits and burdens from land are unequally distributed; and 10) land users have multiple, sometimes conflicting, ideas of what social and environmental justice entails. The facts have implications for governance, but do not provide fixed answers. Instead they constitute a set of core principles which can guide scientists, policy makers, and practitioners toward meeting sustainability challenges in land use.
KW - governance
KW - land use
KW - social-ecological systems
KW - sustainability
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2109217118
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2109217118
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35131937
AN - SCOPUS:85124259162
VL - 119
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 7
M1 - e2109217118
ER -
ID: 297488756