articleAnthropoceneOct 24, 2015HYBRID OA

Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · CSIRO Land and Water · +20 more institutions

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Abstract

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment. Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and natural processes helps to reveal how changes in the land system affect the functioning of the socio-ecological system as a whole and the tradeoff these changes may represent. The Global Land Project has led advances by synthesizing land systems research across different scales and providing concepts to further understand the feedbacks between social-and environmental systems, between urban and rural environments and between distant world regions. Land system science has moved from a focus on observation of change and understanding the…

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Keywords
  • Earth system science
  • Environmental resource management
  • Land management
  • Land use
  • Environmental planning
  • Sustainable land management
  • Sustainable development
  • Stakeholder
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life in Land
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