Land system science: between global challenges and local realities

TY - JOUR

T1 - Land system science

T2 - between global challenges and local realities

AU - Verburg, Peter H.

AU - Erb, Karl-Heinz

AU - Mertz, Ole

AU - Espindola, Giovana

PY - 2013/10

Y1 - 2013/10

N2 - This issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability provides an overview of recent advances in Land System Science while at the same time setting the research agenda for the Land System Science community. Land System Science is not just representing land system changes as either a driver or a consequence of global environmental change. Land systems also offer solutions to global change through adaptation and mitigation and can play a key role in achieving a sustainable future earth. The special issue assembles 14 articles that entail different perspectives on land systems and their dynamics, synthesizing current knowledge, highlighting currently under-researched topics, exploring scientific frontiers and suggesting ways ahead, integrating a plethora of scientific disciplines.

AB - This issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability provides an overview of recent advances in Land System Science while at the same time setting the research agenda for the Land System Science community. Land System Science is not just representing land system changes as either a driver or a consequence of global environmental change. Land systems also offer solutions to global change through adaptation and mitigation and can play a key role in achieving a sustainable future earth. The special issue assembles 14 articles that entail different perspectives on land systems and their dynamics, synthesizing current knowledge, highlighting currently under-researched topics, exploring scientific frontiers and suggesting ways ahead, integrating a plethora of scientific disciplines.

U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.08.001

DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.08.001

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 24851141

SN - 1877-3435

VL - 5

SP - 433

EP - 437

JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

IS - 5

ER -