Special Issue "Land-Use Competition"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2018).
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial ecology; life cycle assessment (LCA); sustainability; environmental impact assessment; sustainable development; sustainable agriculture; climate change; soil fertility; environmental science; sustainability management; agroecology; natural resource economics; land use; ecological economics; sustainable supply management; life cycle thinking; ecosystem services; carbon footprint; life cycle stages
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Interests: nitrogen management, GHG emissions, organic matter, biogas, biomass, land use
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Interests: environmental and social trade-off assessments; land and resource use competition; agent based modelling; social metabolism; society-nature interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In view of the competing demands on land to adequately feed people, sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services, and mitigate climate change, there is a clear need for a systematic basis for allocating land use with respect to economic, social, and environmental objectives.
The journal Sustainability is hosting a Special Issue on “Land-Use Competition”. Studies are welcome that formulate an integrated environmental and economic assessment of the global consequences of land use strategies for food, feed, fuel, timber and carbon sink, consisting of novel operational approaches that propose resolving the associated methodological issues. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and/or (parallel) economic-equilibrium modelling studies are of particular interest, as are consequential approaches for considering indirect effects when assessing land use strategies, or any other approach for estimating indirect land use change.
Dr. Miguel Brandão
Dr. Hans Langeveld
Mag. Andreas Mayer
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Land-use competition
- Life cycle assessment
- Consequential modelling
- Economic-equilibrium modelling
- Bioenergy