Land System Science: between global challenges and local realities

This issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability provides an overview of recent advances in Land System Science while at the same time setting the research agenda for the Land System Science community. Land System Science is not just representing land system changes as either a driver or a consequence of global environmental change. Land systems also offer solutions to global change through adaptation and mitigation and can play a key role in achieving a sustainable future earth. The special issue assembles 14 articles that entail different perspectives on land systems and their dynamics, synthesizing current knowledge, highlighting currently under-researched topics, exploring scientific frontiers and suggesting ways ahead, integrating a plethora of scientific disciplines.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

• Publication date

  2013-10-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.COSUST.2013.08.001PMID 24851141PMCID 4018982
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• From ‘land grabbing’ to sustainable investments in land: potential contributions by land change science

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• Land system architecture: Using land systems to adapt and mitigate global environmental change

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• Alternative trajectories of land abandonment: causes, consequences and research challenges

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• Beyond 'land sparing versus land sharing': environmental heterogeneity, globalization and the balance between agricultural production and nature conservation

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• Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

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• Impacts of land change on biodiversity: making the link to ecosystem services

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• Drivers of Wetland Conversion: a Global Meta-Analysis

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• Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom

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• Used planet: A global history

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• Opportunities to Improve Impact, Integration, and Evaluation of Land Change Models

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• Land system change and food security: towards multi-scale land system solutions

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• A conceptual framework for analysing and measuring land-use intensity

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• Land science contributions to ecosystem services

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• Evidence of urban land teleconnections and impacts on hinterlands

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• Identifying trade-offs between ecosystem services, land use, and biodiversity: a plea for combining scenario analysis and optimization on different spatial scales

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• Global land governance: from territory to flow?

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• Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

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• Different ontologies: land change science and health research.

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• Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

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• Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

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• Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

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• Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

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• Toward a land zoning negotiation support platform: “Tips and tricks” for participatory land use planning in Laos

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• The Land Governance Assessment Framework: Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector

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• Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

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• A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

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• Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

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• Challenges in using land use and land cover data for global change studies

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• Impact of tropical land‐use change on soil organic carbon stocks – a meta‐analysis

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• Global Forest Transition: Prospects for an End to Deforestation

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• Research priorities in land use and land‐cover change for the Earth system and integrated assessment modelling

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• Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges

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• Land-use and land-cover change : local processes and global impacts

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• Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: understanding the trade-offs

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• From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability

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• Combining top-down and bottom-up modelling approaches of land use/cover change to support public policies: Application to sustainable management of natural resources in northern Vietnam

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• Simulating feedbacks in land use and land cover change models

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• Global change and the intensification of agriculture in the tropics

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• Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues.

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• Dynamic Causal Patterns of Desertification

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• Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation

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• Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC): Implementation Strategy

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• Trade Openness and Agricultural Land Use Dynamics: Evidence from Selected Developing Economies

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• A Land Sustainability Model for Identifying Strategic Agricultural Areas: Application to Novo Mesto Municipality, Slovenia

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• Land system science for global environmental change and sustainability: Advances, challenges, and future directions

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• Challenges of change: Insights into land use transformations and social conflict in highland regions

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• Environmental data justice is key for developing more effective area-based conservation approaches

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• How the expansion of agricultural land affects the sustainability of adjacent grassland systems in a region: Analytical framework, contextual analysis and win-win pathway

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• Study of Spatial Pattern Suitability Based on Land System Data in Malang Regency and Malang City

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• Response of regional ecological network change and its interaction with ecosystem services associated with “Shan-Shui initiative” projects

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• Towards a risk-informed land system approach in the age of artificial intelligence and analysis-ready satellite data

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• Modelling Land Degradation (LD) Using Geospatial Techniques for Agricultural and Environmental Management Case Study: Alla Catchment; Dekemhare-Eritrea

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• Analysis of land use changes in the 19th–21st century: the case of Juodaičiai, Lithuania

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• Measuring the role of land consolidation to community revitalization in rapidly urbanizing rural China: A perspective of functional supply-demand

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• Climate change exacerbates inequalities between small-scale and large-scale farmers in South Africa’s fruit export market

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• Incorporating water into land system science: Jevons' paradox, Center Pivot Irrigation (CPI), and socioecological resilience in a transboundary area of the Southern Great Plains (SGP)

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• Advancing Sustainability Through Land-Related Approaches: Insights from NRC (1999) and a Bold Call to Action

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• Land use optimisation to coordinate food security and ecological security

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• Adaptive and Differentiated Land Governance for Sustainability: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Explainable Machine Learning Analysis of Land Use Intensity in the Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration

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• Unpacking Outcomes: A quasi-experimental study on the effectiveness of China’s major function-oriented zone planning

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• Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives

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• Safeguarding rural-urban linkages: modeling drivers of peri-urban sprawl and impacts on ecosystem services

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• An Algorithm for Maximum Concordance to Harmonize Legends of Land Use and Land Cover Maps

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