Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Krueger, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 370
• Series: Human-Environment Interactions 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Conceptualizing Distal Drivers in Land Use Competition....Pages 21-40
At a Distance from the Territory: Distal Drivers in the (Re)territorialization of Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia....Pages 41-57
The Transformation of Land-Use Competition in the Argentinean Dry Chaco Between 1975 and 2015....Pages 59-73
Mind the GAP: Vietnamese Rice Farmers and Distal Markets....Pages 75-89
The Role of Maps in Capturing Distal Drivers of Deforestation and Degradation: A Case Study in Central Mozambique....Pages 91-109
Nuts About Gold: Competition for Land in Madre de Dios, Peru....Pages 111-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Competition for Land-Based Ecosystem Services: Trade-Offs and Synergies....Pages 127-147
Contested Land in Loliondo: The Eastern Border of the Serengeti National Park Between Conservation, Hunting Tourism, and Pastoralism....Pages 149-164
How the Collapse of the Beef Sector in Post-Soviet Russia Displaced Competition for Ecosystem Services to the Brazilian Amazon....Pages 165-182
Of Trees and Sheep: Trade-Offs and Synergies in Farmland Afforestation in the Scottish Uplands....Pages 183-192
Land Use Competition Related to Woody Biomass Production on Arable Land in Germany....Pages 193-213
Land-Use Competition in the South American Chaco....Pages 215-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Future Is Made. Imagining Feasible Food and Farming Futures in an Unpredictable World....Pages 233-246
Exploring a ‘Healthy Foodshed’: Land Use Associated with the UK Fruit and Vegetables Supply....Pages 247-261
Strengthening City Region Food Systems: Synergies Between Multifunctional Peri-Urban Agriculture and Short Food Supply Chains: A Local Case Study in Berlin, Germany....Pages 263-277
Agribusiness and Family Farming in Brazil: Competing Modes of Agricultural Production....Pages 279-293
Local Food Systems and Their Climate Impacts: A Life Cycle Perspective....Pages 295-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
A Water Perspective on Land Competition....Pages 313-332
Travelling Through the Densu Delta: Location, Place and Space in the Waterscape....Pages 333-346
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Competing Narratives of Water Resources Management in Ethiopia....Pages 347-361
....Pages 363-379

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development;Human Geography;Agricultural Economics;Development Policy;Development Economics