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Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land Use

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-2099-9

ISBN: 978-94-024-2097-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Apr 16, 2021

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Introduction

Brandão, Miguel; Milà i Canals, Llorenç; Clift, Roland

Pages: 1 –14

[Concerns over global climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services have led to interest in using land in ways that mitigate these threats, particularly by growing various forms of energy crops to displace fossil fuels. In view of the competing demands on land to feed...
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Sustainability of Land Use: A Systems Approach

Brandão, Miguel; Milà i Canals, Llorenç; Clift, Roland

Pages: 15 –53

[By using a systems approach to the analysis of the environmental sustainability of land use and land use change, this chapter presents a background overview of the past and present links between land use, society and environment. Land use has changed dramatically throughout time in order to...
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Consequential Life Cycle Framework and Methodology for the Integrated Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land-Use Systems

Brandão, Miguel; Milà i Canals, Llorenç; Clift, Roland

Pages: 55 –108

[The decision-support analysis of land allocation to competing purposes is a complex endeavour due to the multitude of objectives aimed at. Consequently, proper prioritisation requires systematic comparison of alternatives. Ways for using of a life cycle approach to inform a systematic comparison...
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Discussion and Conclusions

Brandão, Miguel; Milà i Canals, Llorenç; Clift, Roland

Pages: 109 –125

[This study shows that an integrated and holistic sustainability assessment is both possible and relevant. Given the multitude of objectives related to land-use policy, it is relevant that an integrated environmental and economic assessment is performed to identify the most sustainable land use...

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