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Contents The Ernst Strüngmann Forum vii List of Contributors ix Preface xiii 1 Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era: An Introduction Karen C. Seto and Anette Reenberg 1 Land-Use Competition 2 Trends in Global Land-Use Competition Eric F. Lambin and Patrick Meyfroidt 11 3 Food Production and Land Use Peter J. Gregory and John S. I. Ingram 23 4 Finite Land Resources and Competition Helmut Haberl, Cheikh Mbow, Xiangzheng Deng, Elena G. Irwin, Suzi Kerr, Tobias Kuemmerle, Ole Mertz, Patrick Meyfroidt, and B.L. Turner II 35 5 Land-Use Competition between Food Production and Urban Expansion in China Xiangzheng Deng, Yingzhi Lin, and Karen C. Seto 71 Distal Land Connections 6 Globalization, Economic Flows, and Land-Use Transitions Peter J. Marcotullio 89 7 Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Emilio Moran, Harini Nagendra, Simon R. Swaffield, and B. L. Turner II 119 8 Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change Hallie Eakin, Ruth DeFries, Suzi Kerr, Eric F. Lambin, Jianguo Liu, Peter J. Marcotullio, Peter Messerli, Anette Reenberg, Ximena Rueda, Simon R. Swaffield, Birka Wicke, and Karl Zimmerer 141 9 Palm Oil as a Case Study of Distal Land Connections Birka Wicke 163 Decision Making, Governance, and Institutions 10 Emergent Global Land Governance Matias E. Margulis 183 vi Contents 11 Large-Scale Land Transactions: Actors, Agency, Interactions Carol A. Hunsberger, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco, and Wang Chunyu 201 12 Private Market-Based Regulations: What They Are, and What They Mean for Land-Use Governance Graeme Auld 217 13 Changes in Land-Use Governance in an Urban Era Bradford S. Gentry, Thomas Sikor, Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Bebbington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Carol A. Hunsberger, Anne-Marie Izac, Matias E. Margulis, Tobias Plieninger, Heike Schroeder, and Caroline Upton 239 Urbanization and Land Use 14 Range of Contemporary Urban Patterns and Processes Hilda Blanco 275 15 How Is Urban Land Use Unique? Dagmar Haase 299 16 Reconceptualizing Land for Sustainable Urbanity Christopher G. Boone, Charles L. Redman, Hilda Blanco, Dagmar Haase, Jennifer Koch, Shuaib Lwasa, Harini Nagendra, Stephan Pauleit, Steward T. A. Pickett, Karen C. Seto, and Makoto Yokohari 313 Looking Forward 17 Ways Forward to Explore Sustainable Land Use in an Urbanizing World Anette Reenberg and Karen C. Seto 333 Bibliography 341 Subject Index 387 ...

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