Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006 |
Middle-range theories of land system change | |
Meyfroid, P.1,2; Chowdhury, R. Roy3; de Bremond, A.4,5; Ellis, E. C.6; Erb, K-H.7; Filatova, T.8,9; Garrett, R. D.10; Grove, J. M.11; Heinimann, A.5,12; Kuemmerle, T.13,14; Kull, C. A.15; Lambin, E. F.1,16,17; Landon, Y.18; de Warow, Y. le Polain19,20; Messerli, P.5,12; Mueller, D.13,14,21; Nielsen, J. O.13,14; Peterson, G. D.22; Garcia, V. Rodriguez1; Schluter, M.22; Turner, B. L., II23,24; Verburg, P. H.25,26 | |
2018-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
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ISSN | 0959-3780 |
EISSN | 1872-9495 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 53页码:52-67 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Belgium; USA; Switzerland; Austria; Netherlands; Australia; Germany; Canada; Sweden |
英文摘要 | Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of land-use/cover changes. Land system science is a maturing field that has produced a wealth of methodological innovations and empirical observations on land cover and land-use change, from patterns and processes to causes. We take stock of this knowledge by reviewing and synthesizing the theories that explain the causal mechanisms of land-use change, including systemic linkages between distant land-use changes, with a focus on agriculture and forestry processes. We first review theories explaining changes in land-use extent, such as agricultural expansion, deforestation, frontier development, and land abandonment, and changes in land-use intensity, such as agricultural intensification and disintensification. We then synthesize theories of higher-level land system change processes, focusing on: (i) land-use spillovers, including land sparing and rebound effects with intensification, leakage, indirect land-use change, and land-use displacement, and (ii) land-use transitions, defined as structural non-linear changes in land systems, including forest transitions. Theories focusing on the causes of land system changes span theoretically and epistemologically disparate knowledge domains and build from deductive, abductive, and inductive approaches. A grand, integrated theory of land system change remains elusive. Yet, we show that middle-range theories - defined here as contextual generalizations that describe chains of causal mechanisms explaining a well-bounded range of phenomena, as well as the conditions that trigger, enable, or prevent these causal chains -, provide a path towards generalized knowledge of land systems. This knowledge can support progress towards sustainable social-ecological systems. |
英文关键词 | Human-environment systems Box and arrow framework Indirect land-use change Land-use intensification Deforestation Land-use spillover Urban dynamics |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000455061900005 |
WOS关键词 | FOREST TRANSITION ; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ; POLITICAL ECOLOGY ; COVER CHANGE ; LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION ; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ; ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION ; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE ; RURAL LIVELIHOODS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37835 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Catholic Univ Louvain, Earth & Life Inst, Georges Lemaitre Ctr Earth & Climate Res, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium; 2.FRS FNRS, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; 3.Clark Univ, Grad Sch Geog, Worcester, MA 01610 USA; 4.Univ Maryland, Geog Sci Dept, College Pk, MD 20742 USA; 5.Univ Bern, CDE, Bern, Switzerland; 6.Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Geog & Environm Syst, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA; 7.Univ Nat Resources & Life Sci BOKU, Dept Econ & Social Sci WiSo, Inst Social Ecol SEC, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Vienna, Austria; 8.Univ Twente, Dept Governance & Technol Sustainabil, POB 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands; 9.Univ Technol Sydney, Fac Engn & Informat Technol, Sch Syst SML, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; 10.Boston Univ, Dept Earth & Environm, Boston, MA 02215 USA; 11.US Forest Serv, USDA, Suite 350,5523 Res Pk Dr, Baltimore, MD 21228 USA; 12.Univ Bern, Inst Geog, Bern, Switzerland; 13.Humboldt Univ, Geog Dept, Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany; 14.Humboldt Univ, Integrat Res Inst Transformat Human Environm Syst, Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany; 15.Univ Lausanne, Inst Geog & Sustainabil, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; 16.Stanford Univ, Sch Earth Energy & Environm Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; 17.Stanford Univ, Woods Inst Environm, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; 18.Indiana Univ, Sch Publ & Environm Affairs, Bloomington, IN USA; 19.McGill Univ, Inst Study Int Dev, Montreal, PQ, Canada; 20.McGill Univ, Dept Geog, Montreal, PQ, Canada; 21.Leibniz Inst Agr Dev Transit Econ IAMO, Theodor Lieser Str 2, D-06120 Halle, Saale, Germany; 22.Stockholm Univ, Stockholm Resilience Ctr, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; 23.Arizona State Univ, Sch Geog Sci & Urban Planning, POB 875302, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA; 24.Arizona State Univ, Sch Sustainabil, POB 875302, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA; 25.Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Inst Environm Studies IVM, Environm Geog Grp, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands; 26.Swiss Fed Inst Forest Snow & Landscape Res WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Meyfroid, P.,Chowdhury, R. Roy,de Bremond, A.,et al. Middle-range theories of land system change[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2018,53:52-67. |
APA | Meyfroid, P..,Chowdhury, R. Roy.,de Bremond, A..,Ellis, E. C..,Erb, K-H..,...&Verburg, P. H..(2018).Middle-range theories of land system change.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,53,52-67. |
MLA | Meyfroid, P.,et al."Middle-range theories of land system change".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 53(2018):52-67. |
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