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- Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The MIT Press
- Series: Strüngmann Forum Reports
summary
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. While land resources remain finite, the global population is projected to reach ten billion by the end of the century, bringing issues of ethics and fairness to center stage. Who should decide how land is used? Where does competition for land occur, and why? Moreover, accelerating globalization, increasing demand for animal protein in our diets, the need for new sources of energy, and the global scarcity of land have led to a decoupling of land use and local control, which raises issues of governance. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use. The chapters consider such topics as food production and land use; case studies of urbanization and agriculture in Brazil and China; telecoupling and connections to distant places; emerging institutions of land-use governance; public and private regulation of land use; uniquely urban issues of land use; and future steps to sustainability.<B>Contributors</B>Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Bebbington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hilda Blanco, Christopher G. Boone, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Wang Chunyu, Ruth DeFries, Xiangzheng Deng, Hallie Eakin, Jennifer C. Franco, Bradford S. Gentry, Peter J. Gregory, Dagmar Haase, Helmut Haberl, Vanessa Hull, Carol A. Hunsberger, John S. I. Ingram, Elena G. Irwin, Anne-Marie Izac, Suzi Kerr, Jennifer Koch, Tobias Kuemmerle, Eric F. Lambin, Yingzhi Lin, Jianguo Liu, Shuaib Lwasa, Peter J. Marcotullio, Matias E. Margulis, Cheikh Mbow, Ole Mertz, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, Emilio Moran, Harini Nagendra, Stephan Pauleit, Steward T. A. Pickett, Tobias Plieninger, Charles L. Redman, Anette Reenberg, Ximena Rueda, Heike Schroeder, Karen C. Seto, Thomas Sikor, Simon R. Swaffield, Billie Lee Turner II, Caroline Upton, Birka Wicke, Makoto Yokohari, Karl Zimmerer
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Contributors
- pp. ix-xii
- Land-Use Competition
- 3. Food Production and Land Use
- pp. 23-34
- Distal Land Connections
- Decision Making, Governance, and Institutions
- 10. Emergent Global Land Governance
- pp. 183-200
- Urbanization and Land Use
- 15. How Is Urban Land Use Unique?
- pp. 299-312
- Looking Forward
- Bibliography
- pp. 341-386
- Subject Index
- pp. 387-394
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262322126
Related ISBN(s)
9780262026901
MARC Record
OCLC
874966965
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2014-04-24
Language
English
Open Access
No