This book provides a much-needed and sometimes startling exploration of global land dynamics as they are playing out in the twenty-first century. The world is a dramatically different place than it was when land change science emerged several decades ago. As the world urbanizes to meet the needs of ten billion people by the end of the century, critical new dimensions of land change are becoming evident. This book explores emerging issues and challenges related to competition for land, teleconnections that link social-environmental systems across space and time, and the increasingly critical role of emerging economies and markets in changing the face of land systems worldwide. This is a great book, a great contribution! -- Pam Matson, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University The increasing competition for the planet's land resources can produce undesirable outcomes, as when biofuel production intended for climate change mitigation prompts deforestation and carbon emissions elsewhere in the world. The complex economic, social, and environmental trade-offs involved in global land use management call for new, holistic ways to analyze sustainable land use. The authors of this book--experts from various fields--take up the gauntlet by uniting in an important effort to address land use issues in new ways, thereby also inspiring new approaches to global governance within this arena. -- Martin Lidegaard, Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, Denmark Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era, written by well-known scholars in the field, is a major contribution on sustainable global land use and tackles many challenging issues: What does sustainable land use mean? How is it conceptualized? How can it be achieved? What are the normative and fairness issues? In a time when many countries such as China are rapidly urbanizing, this book provides fresh reconceptualizations of sustainable global land use and presents novel ideas that will be of great interest to researchers and policymakers working on sustainable land use issues. -- Jiyuan Liu, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Karen C. Seto is Professor in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Anette Reenberg is Professor of Geography with the Environment and Society Research Group in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen.
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