IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter No. 35 – August 2016
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New Book – Out Now!
Land Use Competition. Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives
J. Niewöhner, A. Bruns, P. Hostert, T. Krueger, J.Ø. Nielsen, H. Haberl, C. Lauk, J. Lutz, D. Müller (Eds.)
Land Use Competition. Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives
Series: Human-Environment Interactions, Vol. 6
Springer, 2016
Contributors from the Institute of Social Ecology:
L. Bartels, H. Haberl, C. Lauk, J. Lutz, A. Mayer, M. Pichler, G. Pollack, A. Schaffartzik, C. Spitzbart-Glasl, M. Theurl
- Provides new conceptual frames for analyzing land use competition
- Offers a diverse range of case studies, reflecting the global context of research
- Bridges various disciplines to encourage and enable interdisciplinary collaboration?
This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition.
Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts in which the effects of global change on social-ecological systems unfold. As such, understanding these rapidly changing dynamics is one of the most pressing challenges of global change research in the 21st century. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of the manifold interactions between land systems, the economics of resource production, distribution and use, as well as the logics of local livelihoods and cultural contexts. It addresses a broad readership in the geosciences, land and environmental sciences, offering them an essential reference guide to land use competition.
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Biomass turnover time in ecosystems is halved by land use
In order to improve our understanding of climate change and to increase the predictability of future dynamics, it is necessary to gain a better understanding of the global carbon cycle. To date, little is known about the average time carbon is stored in biomass, before it passes back into atmosphere or soils (biomass turnover time), and the factors influencing this key parameter also remain largely unknown. Now, a new publication in Nature Geoscience shows that biomass turnover time in vegetation is halved as a result of human influence.
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