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A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

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Title A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models
 
Creator Hertel, Thomas W.
West, T.A.P.
Börner, J.
Villoria, N.B.
 
Subject bioenergy
land use
economic impact
 
Description Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When sufficiently widespread, local feedback to stresses originating from global drivers can have regional, national, and even global impacts. A multiscale, global-to-local-to-global (GLG) framework is thus needed for comprehensive analyses of LUCC and leakage. The number of GLG-LUCC studies has grown substantially over the past years, but no reviews of this literature and their contributions have been completed so far. In fact, the largest body of literature pertains to global-to-local impacts exclusively, whereas research on local feedback to regional, national, and global spheres remain scarce, and are almost solely undertaken within large modeling institutes. As such, those are rarely readily accessible for modification and extension by outside contributors. This review of the recent GLG-LUCC studies calls for more open-source modeling and availability of data, arguing that the latter is the real constraint to more widespread analyses of GLG-LUCC impacts. Progress in this field will require contributions from hundreds of researchers around the world and from a wide variety of disciplines.
 
Date 2019-05-01
2021-03-08T08:18:07Z
2021-03-08T08:18:07Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Hertel, T.W., West, T.A.P., Börner, J., Villoria, N.B. 2019. A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (5): 053003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d33
1748-9326
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112096
https://www.cifor.org/library/7485
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d33
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-3.0
Open Access
 
Publisher IOP Publishing