Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era
Reenberg, Anette.
Seto, Karen C.
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use.
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Contents; The Ernst Strüngmann Forum; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era: An Introduction; Land-Use Competition; 2 Trends in Global Land-Use Competition; 3 Food Production and Land Use; 4 Finite Land Resources and Competition; 5 Land-Use Competition between Food Production and Urban Expansion in China; Distal Land Connections; 6 Globalization, Economic Flows, and Land-Use Transitions; 7 Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science; 8 Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change
9 Palm Oil as a Case Study of Distal Land ConnectionsDecision Making, Governance, and Institutions; 10 Emergent Global Land Governance; 11 Large-Scale Land Transactions: Actors, Agency, Interactions; 12 Private Market-Based Regulations: What They Are, and What They Mean for Land-Use Governance; 13 Changes in Land-Use Governance in an Urban Era; Urbanization and Land Use; 14 Range of Contemporary Urban Patterns and Processes; 15 How Is Urban Land Use Unique?; 16 Reconceptualizing Land for Sustainable Urbanity; Looking Forward
17 Ways Forward to Explore Sustainable Land Use in an Urbanizing WorldBibliography; Subject Index
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Environmentalism.
Sustainable development.
Urbanization.
Land use.