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DOI | DOI10.1088/1748-9326/ab8157 |
Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia | |
Emma Johansson; Stefan Olin; Jonathan Seaquist | |
2020-06-15 | |
发表期刊 | Environmental Research Letters |
出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | Rapid deforestation is a major sustainability challenge, partly as the loss of carbon sinks exacerbates global climate change. In Cambodia, more than 13% of the total land area has been contracted out to foreign and domestic agribusinesses in the form of economic land concessions, causing rapid large-scale land use change and deforestation. Additionally, the distant drivers of local and global environmental change often remain invisible. Here, we identify hotspots of carbon loss between 1987–2017 using the dynamic global vegetation model LPJ-GUESS and by comparing past and present land use and land cover. We also link global consumption and production patterns to their environmental effects in Cambodia by mapping the countries to which land-use embedded carbon are exported. We find that natural forests have decreased from 54%–21% between 1987 and 2017, mainly for the expansion of farmland and orchards, translating into 300 million tons of carbon lost, with loss rates over twice as high within economic land concessions. China is the largest importer of embedded carbon, mainly for rubber and sugarcane from Chinese agribusinesses. Cambodian investors have also negatively affected carbon pools through export-oriented products like rubber. The combined understanding of environmental change and trade flows makes it possible to identify distant drivers of deforestation, which is important for crafting more environmentally and socially responsible policies on national and transnational scales. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/276544 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Emma Johansson,Stefan Olin,Jonathan Seaquist. Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia[J]. Environmental Research Letters,2020. |
APA | Emma Johansson,Stefan Olin,&Jonathan Seaquist.(2020).Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia.Environmental Research Letters. |
MLA | Emma Johansson,et al."Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia".Environmental Research Letters (2020). |
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