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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system

T2 - A global land project perspective

AU - Verburg, Peter H.

AU - Crossman, Neville

AU - Ellis, Erle C.

AU - Heinimann, Andreas

AU - Hostert, Patrick

AU - Mertz, Ole

AU - Nagendra, Harini

AU - Sikor, Thomas

AU - Erb, Karl-Heinz

AU - Golubiewski, Nancy

AU - Grau, Ricardo

AU - Grove, Morgan

AU - Konaté, Souleymane

AU - Meyfroidt, Patrick

AU - Parker, Dawn C.

AU - Chowdhury, Rinku Roy

AU - Shibata, Hideaki

AU - Thomson, Allison

AU - Zhen, Lin

PY - 2015/12/1

Y1 - 2015/12/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1016/j.ancene.2015.09.004

DO - 10.1016/j.ancene.2015.09.004

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2213-3054

VL - 12

SP - 29

EP - 41

JO - Anthropocene

JF - Anthropocene

ER -