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- Title
Land-use regime shifts: an analytical framework and agenda for future landuse research.
- Authors
Ramankutty, Navin; Coomes, Oliver T.
- Abstract
A key research frontier in global change research lies in understanding processes of land change to inform predictive models of future land states. We believe that significant advances in the field are hampered by limited attention being paid to critical points of change termed land-use regime shifts. We present an analytical framework for understanding land-use regime shifts. We survey historical events of land change and perform in-depth case studies of soy and shrimp development in Latin America to demonstrate the role of preconditions, triggers, and self-reinforcing processes in driving land-use regime shifts. Whereas the land-use literature demonstrates a good understanding of within-regime dynamics, our understanding of the drivers of land-use regime shifts is limited to ex post facto explications. Theoretical and empirical advances are needed to better understand the dynamics and implications of land-use regime shifts. We draw insights from the regime-shifts literature to propose a research agenda for studying land change.
- Subjects
LATIN America; GLOBAL environmental change; LAND use; PUBLIC lands; GLOBAL temperature changes; ECOLOGY
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.5751/ES-08370-210201