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

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 and the...

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Autores: Verburgh, Peter H., Crossman, Neville, Ellis, Erle C., Heinniman, Andreas, Hostert, Patrick, Mertz, Ole, Nagendra, Harini, Sikor, Thomas, Erb, Karl Heinz, Golubieuski, Nancy, Grau, Hector Ricardo, Grove, Morgan, Konate, Souleymane, Meyfroidt, Patrick, Parker, Dawn C., Chowdury, Rinku Roy, Shibata, Hideaki, Thomson, Allison, Zhen, Lin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/77343
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/77343
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Land Science
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Sumario: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 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 socio- 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 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 insight from different disciplines and for translation of knowledge in action.