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Martin, Adrian 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2916-7712, Coolsaet, Brendan, Corbera, Esteve, Dawson, Neil, Fisher, Janet, Franks, Phil, Mertz, Ole, Pascual, Unai, Rasmussen, Laura and Ryan, Casey
(2018)
Land use intensification:The promise of sustainability and the reality of trade-offs.
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Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation.
Routledge, London.
ISBN 9781138580848
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Abstract
Land use intensification is widely considered to be an essential strategy for achieving global goals to eliminate poverty and to avoid damaging losses of ecosystem services. This chapter investigates whether current land use intensification activities are achieving these twin goals. To do so, it reviews a body of academic literature that reports on case studies in which both social and ecological outcomes of intensification are reported. There are two main findings. First, there are relatively few cases in which land use intensification is clearly succeeding in these twinned objectives. There are many more cases in which, for example, short-term income or productivity gains from land use intensification are resulting in long-term diminution of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Studies with longer-term perspectives are already seeing how such trade-offs are leading to negative feedbacks for human wellbeing, especially for marginalised social groups. Secondly, we learn most from those studies that a) go beyond measuring production and income to measure multiple dimensions of wellbeing and ecosystem services, b) monitor dynamics of outcomes across longer time periods and across landscapes and c) disaggregate outcome measures to identify outcomes for different social groups.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2018 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2023 05:52 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67557 |
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