Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

Verburg, Peter H. and Crossman, Neville and Ellis, Erle C. and Heinimann, Andreas and Hostert, Patrick and Mertz, Ole and Nagendra, Harini and Sikor, Thomas and Erb, Karl-Heinz and Golubiewski, Nancy and Grau, Ricardo and Grove, Morgan and Konaté, Souleymane and Meyfroidt, Patrick and Parker, Dawn C. and Chowdhury, Rinku Roy and Shibata, Hideaki and Thomson, Allison and Zhen, Lin (2015) Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective. Anthropocene, 12. pp. 29-41. ISSN 22133054

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Abstract

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment. Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and natural processes helps to reveal how changes in the land system affect the functioning of the socio-ecological system as a whole and the tradeoff these changes may represent. The Global Land Project has led advances by synthesizing land systems research across different scales and providing concepts to further understand the feedbacks between social-and environmental systems, between urban and rural environments and between distant world regions. Land system science has moved from a focus on observation of change and understanding the drivers of these changes to a focus on using this understanding to design sustainable transformations through stakeholder engagement and through the concept of land governance. As land use can be seen as the largest geo-engineering project in which mankind has engaged, land system science can act as a platform for integration of insights from different disciplines and for translation of knowledge into action.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Verburg, Peter H. and Crossman, Neville and Ellis, Erle C. and Heinimann, Andreas and Hostert, Patrick and Mertz, Ole and Nagendra, Harini and Sikor, Thomas and Erb, Karl-Heinz and Golubiewski, Nancy and Grau, Ricardo and Grove, Morgan and Konaté, Souleymane and Meyfroidt, Patrick and Parker, Dawn C. and Chowdhury, Rinku Roy and Shibata, Hideaki and Thomson, Allison and Zhen, Lin
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Factors affecting social behavior > Human ecology Sustainability
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7366
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2015.09.004

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