Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

On the role of social equity in payments for ecosystem services in Latin America: A practitioner perspective

(2021) Bosco Lliso et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

(2021) Unai Pascual et al.   Nature Sustainability

Assessing smallholder sustainable intensification in the Ethiopian highlands

(2021) James Hammond et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world

(2020) Patrick Meyfroidt et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas

(2020) Jose A. Rehbein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change

(2020) Sandra Lavorel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes

(2020) Anand M. Osuri et al.   Conservation Letters

Agricultural intensification and land use change: Assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect

(2020) Virginia Rodriguez Garcia et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Deforestation spillovers from oil palm sustainability certification

(2020) Robert Heilmayr et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Social as much as environmental: the drivers of tree biomass in smallholder forest landscape restoration programmes

(2020) Geoff Wells et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

(2020) William C. Clark et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Fire risk perpetuates poverty and fire use among Amazonian smallholders

(2020) Federico Cammelli et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

(2020) Noelia Zafra-Calvo et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Conditional cash transfers to alleviate poverty also reduced deforestation in Indonesia

(2020) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   Science Advances

Impacts of a large-scale titling initiative on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) Benedict Probst et al.   Nature Sustainability

Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature

(2020) T. Vadén et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Integrated crop-livestock systems: A sustainable land-use alternative for food production in the Brazilian Cerrado and Amazon

(2020) dos Reis Júlio César et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Where does your guacamole come from? Detecting deforestation associated with the export of avocados from Mexico to the United States

(2020) Kimin Cho et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Does agricultural trade reduce pressure on land ecosystems? Decomposing drivers of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production

(2020) Nicolas Roux et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

(2019) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   Science Advances

Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

(2019) Calum Brown et al.   Nature Climate Change

Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth

(2019) Alexandra Marques et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

(2019) Darla K Munroe et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Ecosystem services and nature’s contribution to people: negotiating diverse values and trade-offs in land systems

(2019) Erle C Ellis et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Leakage and boosting effects in environmental governance: A framework for analysis

(2019) Mairon Giovani Bastos Lima et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia

(2019) Farzad Taheripour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

(2019) Lucas Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Białowieża Forest—A Relic of the High Naturalness of European Forests

(2019) Bogdan Jaroszewicz et al.   Forests

Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

(2019) Carl Folke et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Consequences of agricultural total factor productivity growth for the sustainability of global farming: accounting for direct and indirect land use effects

(2019) Nelson Villoria   Environmental Research Letters

Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050

(2019) Kangning Huang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people

(2019) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   SCIENCE

Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

(2019) Paul Veers et al.   SCIENCE

Deficits of biodiversity and productivity linger a century after agricultural abandonment

(2019) Forest Isbell et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A Global Mitigation Hierarchy for Nature Conservation

(2018) William N S Arlidge et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Geospatial Land Price Data: A Public Good for Global Change Science and Policy

(2018) Oliver T Coomes et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Tradeoffs in the quest for climate smart agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso, Brazil

(2018) Juliana D B Gil et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Carbon footprints of 13 000 cities

(2018) Daniel Moran et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Future environmental and agricultural impacts of Brazil’s Forest Code

(2018) Aline C Soterroni et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Land in balance: The scientific conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality

(2018) Annette L. Cowie et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Carbon emissions from South-East Asian peatlands will increase despite emission-reduction schemes

(2018) Lahiru S. Wijedasa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Environmental and social footprints of international trade

(2018) Thomas Wiedmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Games as Tools to Address Conservation Conflicts

(2018) Steve M. Redpath et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

(2018) Joice Ferreira et al.   Nature Climate Change

The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

(2018) Eric F. Lambin et al.   Nature Climate Change

What Have We Learned from the Land Sparing-sharing Model?

(2018) Benjamin Phalan   Sustainability

Who bears the cost of forest conservation?

(2018) Mahesh Poudyal et al.   PeerJ

How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?

(2018) Vincent Ricciardi et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Middle-range theories of land system change

(2018) P. Meyfroidt et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

A global map of travel time to cities to assess inequalities in accessibility in 2015

(2018) D. J. Weiss et al.   NATURE

Technology Spillovers and Land Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Global Agriculture

(2018) Nelson B Villoria   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston

(2018) Wei Zhang et al.   NATURE

Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change

(2018) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   NATURE

Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest cover and community rights

(2018) Anthony J. Bebbington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people

(2018) C. Kremen et al.   SCIENCE

Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

(2018) Juan C. Rocha et al.   SCIENCE

Distant Interactions, Power, and Environmental Justice in Protected Area Governance: A Telecoupling Perspective

(2018) Sébastien Boillat et al.   Sustainability

An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation

(2017) Matthew J. Colloff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

A global analysis of land take in cropland areas and production displacement from urbanization

(2017) Jasper van Vliet et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

(2017) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   NATURE

Avoiding impacts on biodiversity through strengthening the first stage of the mitigation hierarchy

(2017) Ben Phalan et al.   ORYX

Inequality in nature and society

(2017) Marten Scheffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecosystem management as a wicked problem

(2017) Ruth DeFries et al.   SCIENCE

Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability

(2017) Maria Tengö et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Incorporating Land Tenure Security into Conservation

(2017) Brian E. Robinson et al.   Conservation Letters

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

(2017) Laura J. Sonter et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

(2017) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   Scientific Reports

The limits to global-warming mitigation by terrestrial carbon removal

(2017) Lena R. Boysen et al.   Earths Future

Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms

(2016) T.S. Jayne et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications

(2016) Karen C. Seto et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity

(2016) Alexander C. Lees et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Justice and conservation: The need to incorporate recognition

(2016) Adrian Martin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Land-use regime shifts: an analytical framework and agenda for future land-use research

(2016) Navin Ramankutty et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Scale and ecosystem services: how do observation, management, and analysis shift with scale—lessons from Québec

(2016) Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

International trade, and land use intensification and spatial reorganization explain Costa Rica’s forest transition

(2016) I Jadin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Hotspots of uncertainty in land-use and land-cover change projections: a global-scale model comparison

(2016) Reinhard Prestele et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Alternative stable states and the sustainability of forests, grasslands, and agriculture

(2016) Kirsten A. Henderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment

(2016) Kai M. A. Chan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What's wrong with novel ecosystems, really?

(2016) James R. Miller et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Overlapping Land Claims Limit the Use of Satellites to Monitor No-Deforestation Commitments and No-Burning Compliance

(2016) David L.A. Gaveau et al.   Conservation Letters

Exploring the biophysical option space for feeding the world without deforestation

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   Nature Communications

Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science?

(2016) Ken E. Giller et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: myth and reality

(2015) Cheryl Doss et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene

(2015) Belinda Reyers et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

A global assessment of the social and conservation outcomes of protected areas

(2015) J. A. Oldekop et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The self-reinforcing feedback between low soil fertility and chronic poverty

(2015) Christopher B. Barrett et al.   Nature Geoscience

Measuring the difference made by conservation initiatives: protected areas and their environmental and social impacts

(2015) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Protected areas and poverty

(2015) Daniel Brockington et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital: Fig. 1.

(2015) Lisen Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change

(2014) Daniel Müller et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

A global strategy for road building

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Novel ecosystems: concept or inconvenient reality? A response to Murcia et al.

(2014) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Toward an Empirical Analysis of Justice in Ecosystem Governance

(2014) Thomas Sikor et al.   Conservation Letters

Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

(2014) Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.   Nature Climate Change

The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

(2013) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

(2013) Florian Schierhorn et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

(2013) E.F. Lambin et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The material footprint of nations

(2013) Thomas O. Wiedmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Used planet: A global history

(2013) E. C. Ellis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units

(2012) Rudolf de Groot et al.   Ecosystem Services

The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

(2011) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Land-use poverty traps identified in shifting cultivation systems shape long-term tropical forest cover

(2011) O. T. Coomes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Saving Slash-and-Burn to Save Biodiversity

(2010) Christine Padoch et al.   BIOTROPICA

Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land use in the tropics

(2010) R. DeFries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

What Drives Accelerated Land Cover Change in Central Argentina? Synergistic Consequences of Climatic, Socioeconomic, and Technological Factors

(2008) Marcelo R. Zak et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT