Overview
- Presents framework to assess land-use
- Offers solutions for land-use policy development
- Helps identify the most sustainable land-use strategies on a global level
- Offers a holistic framework for assessment of land-use impacts on environment and economy
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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About this book
Using land for one purpose negates its use for any other competing purpose. Given that it is in limited supply, land needs to be optimised so that it can meet the increasing demand for crops of a growing and wealthier human population, while providing ecosystem services, such as carbon storage (i.e. climate-change mitigation).
The framework is quantitative and includes various indirect effects, like indirect land-use change, and is a robust basis with which to assess global impacts from land-use decisions on climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
He is involved in international standardisation initiatives in the areas of life cycle assessment, circular economy and climate-change metrics.
Interests: Circular Economy, Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Agroecology, Land Use, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Globalisation, Poverty alleviation, Food Security, Bioenergy, Food.
He is an editor in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Sustainability and Cleaner Environmental Systems. In 2012, he received the SETAC Europe Young Scientist LCA Award.
Dr. Llorenç Milà i Canals is the Head of the Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative, based in Paris. He joined UN Environment to lead its life cycle thinking work in 2013, after working in academia and industry. The Life Cycle Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership launched in 2002 and hosted by UN Environment, with the aim of enabling the global use of credible life cycle knowledge by private and public decision makers.
His main area of expertise is environmental assessment of products, focusing on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and its application on the implementation of sustainable business and policy models.
Professor Roland Clift is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Technology at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey. His role as a leading thinker on sustainable development has been recognised through the awarding of IChemE's highest honour, the George E Davis Medal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land Use
Book Subtitle: A Consequential Life Cycle Approach
Authors: Miguel Brandão, Llorenç Milà i Canals, Roland Clift
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2099-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2097-5Published: 16 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2099-9Published: 15 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 125
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development