Sentences with phrase «of global land use»

The study was a collaboration between three teams who have independently devised economic models of global land use.

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.

He also leads the institute's Global Landscapes Initiative, which focuses on the nexus of global land use, agriculture, food security and environment.

Not exact matches

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

But in addition to the impact of air miles, global land and resource use determine the sustainability of the food we eat - food production can destroy or displace natural resources in order to supply growing demand.

China reportedly has 10 % of global arable land and uses over 30 % of global fertilizer.

Other environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions or land use should be taken into consideration, when possible, in order to address the environmental impacts of the global dairy sector in a holistic manner.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

As Jonathon Bloom of Wasted Food explained, the existing food system perpetuates the overproduction of commodities, artificially low prices, and disproportionate use of our resources (80 % of water, 50 % of land and 10 % of global oil is used in food production).

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resoGlobal Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resoGlobal Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resoglobal climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

«Adequate management of agricultural and forestry land uses are amongst the lowest - cost actions that can reduce global warming, and most actions are either neutral cost or of positive net profit to society, requiring no substantial capital investment,» the report says.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

This data can then be used to analyze the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental conditions, including baseline data for global climate change and their relevance to changes in regional land use patterns.

The World Bank estimates that over the next 15 years, the global economy will require $ 89 trillion in infrastructure investments across cities, energy and land - use systems, and $ 4.1 trillion in incremental investment for the low - carbon transition to keep within the internationally agreed limit of a 2 - degree - Celsius temperature rise.

A substantial portion of the planet is greening in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, global warming and land use change.

It was the discovery of a consistent year - to - year profile that allowed the researchers to move beyond a previous analysis, in which they identified the hottest spots on Earth, to the development of a new global - change indicator that uses the entire planet's maximum land surface temperatures.

There has been a global, 30 - year increase in surface mining (1), which is now the dominant driver of land - use change in the central Appalachian ecoregion of the United States (2).

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

The model has already been integrated into the next generation of the global land model used for climate simulations by the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a major national climate modeling center.

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

They range from LANDSAT images of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, to fish catches off California since the 1920s, to 400,000 years of global temperature estimates from antarctic ice cores.

«Climate and land use change have long been linked to changes in water yield,» said Peter Caldwell, research hydrologist for the Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and primary author of the article recently published in the journal Global Change Biology.

Alternatively, more than a quarter of land used for agriculture at present would have to be converted into biomass plantations — putting at risk global food security.

It increases the ability to predict how changes in land use or climate warming could affect the sources and global concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

The new study is one of the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts, taking into account seasonal changes and different types of intervention, including water withdrawals, reservoir regulation, land - use change, and irrigation.

Throughout his career, he has made major contributions to our understanding of worldwide changes in ecosystems, land use and climate, and global food security.

Forestry, agriculture and land - use changes account for nearly 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the energy sector.

Land - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouLand - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouland to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thought.

These results explain the difference between recent global estimates of forest «land use» area (3890 Mha) and the area with a «land cover,» the authors say.

And of the $ 300 trillion to $ 400 trillion likely to be invested in the total global economy, $ 90 trillion will be poured into the world's cities, land - use production and energy systems.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

Image: Jesse Allen / NASA (using SRTM data courtesy of Global Land Cover Facility / U.

The researchers produced a long - term global satellite record of land evapotranspiration using remote sensing satellite data.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

«The simple relationship between the temperature and the global land carbon sink should be treated with caution, and not be used to infer ecological processes and long - term predictions» adds Dr. Reichstein, head of the Department.

Currently deforestation and land use change accounts for 11 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

Today agriculture and other land - use changes account for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

In total, exports of meat and other animal products use at least 8 percent of the global agricultural land base.

In an article published in the journal Science, authors Dr. Sandra Brown, of Winrock International, and Dr. Daniel Zarin, of the Climate and Land Use Alliance, posit that, while the idea seems simple and compelling, ambiguity surrounding global definitions and metrics actually creates risks for forest conservation and accountability.

Given the invisible prevalence of citizen science in advancing this one area of global change research, we suspect it also common in many other areas of inquiry such as studies of land - use change, invasive species, and environmental pollutants, to name a few.

He also was an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Land - Use Change and Forestry, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, and a coordinating lead author in the recently published Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

Methods: A global collaboration of scientists responded to a request from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and generated a set of four scenarios to represent future greenhouse gas emissions and land use change.

Astonishingly, forestry, agriculture and land - use changes account for nearly 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emission - that's second only to the energy sector.

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder - led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.

Can science results be used effectively in policy - oriented integrated assessment models that are our only tool for evaluating global - level impacts of policy and climate change, particularly with regard to land use?

Current management practices in the land use sector are responsible for approximately 25 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions.

Globally, extremely warm nights that used to come once in 20 years now occur every 10 years.12 And extremely hot summers, those more than three standard deviations above the historic average, are now observed in about 10 % of the global land area, compared to 0.1 - 0.2 % for the period 1951 - 1980.13