Karen C. Seto and Anette Reenberg (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262026901
- eISBN:
- 9780262322126
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026901.001.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This volume of the Strungmann Forum Reports Series ...
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Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This volume of the Strungmann Forum Reports Series examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. While land resources remain finite, the global population is projected to reach ten billion by the end of the century, bringing issues of ethics and fairness to center stage. Who should decide how land is used? Where does competition for land occur, and why? Moreover, accelerating globalization, increasing demand for animal protein in our diets, the need for new sources of energy, and the global scarcity of land have led to a decoupling of land use and local control, which raises issues of governance. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use.Less
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This volume of the Strungmann Forum Reports Series examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. While land resources remain finite, the global population is projected to reach ten billion by the end of the century, bringing issues of ethics and fairness to center stage. Who should decide how land is used? Where does competition for land occur, and why? Moreover, accelerating globalization, increasing demand for animal protein in our diets, the need for new sources of energy, and the global scarcity of land have led to a decoupling of land use and local control, which raises issues of governance. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use.
Karen C. Seto and Anette Reenberg
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262026901
- eISBN:
- 9780262322126
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026901.003.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Land issues are central to geopolitics, economics, globalization, human well-being, and environmental sustainability. There is concern that not enough land will be available to meet societal and ...
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Land issues are central to geopolitics, economics, globalization, human well-being, and environmental sustainability. There is concern that not enough land will be available to meet societal and ecosystem needs of the projected global population by the middle of the 21st century. Three trends are currently reshaping land use locally and globally: urbanization, the integration of economies and markets, and the emergence of new land-use agents. The prevailing transition toward urban livelihoods results in changes in lifestyle, diet, and land use. Although distant societies have been connected for centuries through trade, the 21st century will be characterized by an acceleration of simultaneously occurring, global-reaching changes: increases in real-time information and communication, large-scale investments, massive rural to urban migration, climate change, and other environmental changes. This chapter discusses urban land teleconnections and proposes the need for conceptual framework to address the tension between the need to use land for societal benefits and the need to conserve land. Published in the Strungmann Forum Reports Series.Less
Land issues are central to geopolitics, economics, globalization, human well-being, and environmental sustainability. There is concern that not enough land will be available to meet societal and ecosystem needs of the projected global population by the middle of the 21st century. Three trends are currently reshaping land use locally and globally: urbanization, the integration of economies and markets, and the emergence of new land-use agents. The prevailing transition toward urban livelihoods results in changes in lifestyle, diet, and land use. Although distant societies have been connected for centuries through trade, the 21st century will be characterized by an acceleration of simultaneously occurring, global-reaching changes: increases in real-time information and communication, large-scale investments, massive rural to urban migration, climate change, and other environmental changes. This chapter discusses urban land teleconnections and proposes the need for conceptual framework to address the tension between the need to use land for societal benefits and the need to conserve land. Published in the Strungmann Forum Reports Series.
