Interactions between Food Security and Land Use in the Context of Global Change
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2017) | Viewed by 77118
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability; land-use and land-cover change; Africa; China; Nepal
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Interests: biodiversity; conservation biology; wildlife habitat modeling; land use/cover change; landscape dynamics; phenology; productivity; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the two-way interactions between food systems and land use change, including the implications for biodiversity and other ecosystem services. Land-use change is arguably the most significant driver of environmental change as it leads to many of the main areas of concern: loss of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, soil degradation, and alteration of hydrological cycles. Land-use change is occurring worldwide due to human development dynamics. It ranges from whole-scale changes in land cover to changes in the intensity of cropping on a given site, as well as changes in the type of cropping, or from crop production to conservation. The nature of changes in the farming technologies and practices employed can differ substantially in their effects on carbon storage, biodiversity, hydrology, etc. Recognizing that the issues of food (in)security are of local relevance, driven by both local, regional and global forces, that changes in land use are local in character but some of the driving forces are regional or global in nature, that food systems are influenced by land use types and changes thereof and that some actions taken to ensure/improve food security influence land use and changes thereof, it is the objective of the work presented in this Special Issue is to increase scientific understanding of the dynamic spatial scale interactions between food security and land use in the context of global change, and the consequences of these interactions for climate, ecosystems and social systems, including their economic and cultural dimensions.
Selected Papers from Global Land Project 3rd Open Science Meeting (GLPOSM16): Interactions between Food Security and Land Use in the Context of Global Change: The Belmont Forum Perspective, will be published free of charge.
Prof. Dr. William J. McConnell
Dr. Andrés Viña
Guest Editors
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