This book provides a holistic framework for assessing the environmental and economic impacts of land-use strategies for a range of purposes, such as food, animal feed, biomass and biofuels, and timber.
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.
1. Introduction.- 2. Sustainability of Land Use: A Systems Approach.- 3. Consequential life cycle framework and methodology for the integrated sustainability impact assessment of land-use systems.- 4. Discussion and Conclusions.
Dr. Miguel Brand?o is Associate Professor in Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment at KTH, Stockholm. Over the last 15 years, he has taught and researched at a number of organisations around the world. He works with the use of hard systems approaches that can robustly support decisions towards sustainable development. His research has focused on the integrated assessment of bio-based systems, with emphasis on their impacts on climate change, resource depletion, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
He is involved in international standardisation initiatives in the areas of life cycle assessment, circular economy and climate-change metrics.
Interests: Circular Economy, Environmental EconomilS*
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