Sentences with phrase «global land use»
The study was a collaboration between three teams who have independently devised economic models of global land use.
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In each model, global land use develops according to assumptions about future trade, technology and world population.
«Finding winners and losers in global land use.»
Kees Klein Goldewijk provided updates on his early global land use reconstructions (HYDE going to 3.2 & 4.0).
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2008 Global Land Use Data Workshop (Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria, cohosted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and the Global Land Project).
New global land use datasets are being developed that indicate that human use of land may have been far more extensive at much earlier times - most of the terrestrial biosphere may have been transformed by humans long before the 20th century - maybe even by 3000 years ago!
UNEP Publications: This report explores how the management of land - based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the field to the sustainable management of global land use as a whole.
The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human induced global land use change over the past 12,000 years
When biofuel crops are grown in appropriate places and under sustainable conditions, they offer a host of benefits: reduced fossil fuel use; diversified fuel supplies; increased employment; decreased greenhouse gas emissions; enhanced habitat for wildlife; improved soil and water quality; and more stable global land use, thereby reducing pressure to clear new land.
He also leads the institute's Global Landscapes Initiative, which focuses on the nexus of global land use, agriculture, food security and environment.
The new economic study adds to the case for it, using models of global land use to show that avoided deforestation compares favourably in terms of cost to other carbon emission abatement options.
He also leads the institute's Global Landscapes Initiative, which focuses on the nexus of global land use, agriculture, food security and environment.