Session Proposal: Emerging Perspectives on Land Use: Global Drivers and Local Impacts in a Socioenvironmentally Teleconnected World I (2015 AGU Fall Meeting)

GC12A:
Emerging Perspectives on Land Use: Global Drivers and Local Impacts in a Socioenvironmentally Teleconnected World I

Session ID#: 10468

Session Description:

Earth’s land surface embodies the dynamic interplay of the physical, social and economic processes that constitute global change. For example, deforestation, agriculture and urbanisation all modify the climate, ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Such changes, in turn, affect land and the societies that rely on it. Because land is shaped today largely by human activities, it has become an important site of policies aimed at achieving sustainability. Consequently, land is also the site of conflicts and competing claims: land grabs and the competition between crops for food and biofuels are but two manifestations.

This session aims to bring together a diverse group of natural and social scientists to explore emerging perspectives on land. We welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to: 1) drivers, trajectories and implications of historic and future land-use change; 2) trade and teleconnections; 3) novel land-use practices for responding to rapid global change; 4) land-atmosphere-hydrosphere interactions.

Primary Convener: Peter Verburg, VU University, Department of Earth Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Conveners: Kathleen D Morrison, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Narcisa GABRIELA Pricope, Mississippi State University, Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States and Darla Munroe, Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States

Chairs: Peter Verburg, VU University, Department of Earth Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Narcisa GABRIELA Pricope, Mississippi State University, Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States

OSPA Liaison: Darla Munroe, Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States

Cross-Listed:

B - Biogeosciences
SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Co-Sponsor(s):

IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -

Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Emergence of Land Use as a Global Force in the Earth System (Invited) (60079)

Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States

Governance Challenges in Telecoupled Food Systems (Invited) (70139)

Hallie Eakin¹, Ashwina Mahanti¹ and Ximena Rueda², (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

Tracing trade-related telecouplings in the global land-system using the embodied human appropriation of net primary production framework (Invited) (61746)

Helmut Haberl, Thomas Kastner, Anke Schaffartzik and Karl Heinz Erb, Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Vienna, Graz, Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dynamics of land change in India: a fine-scale spatial analysis (68657)

Prasanth Meiyappan¹, Parth Sarathi Roy², Yeshu Sharma³, Atul K Jain¹, Reshma Ramachandran⁴ and Pawan Kumar Joshi⁵, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)World Resources Institute India, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration, New Delhi, India, (3)International Institute of Information Technology, Lab for Spatial Informatics, Hyderabad, India, (4)University of Hyderabad, University Center for Earth and Space Science, Hyderabad, India, (5)Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, India

Trend in land degradation has been the most contended issue in the Sahel. Trends documented have not been consistent across authors and science disciplines, hence little agreement has been gained on the magnitude and direction of land degradation in the Sahel. Differentiated science outputs are related to methods and data used at various scales. (69009)

Cheikh Mbow¹, Martin Brandt², Rasmus Fensholt³, Issa Ouedraogo¹ and Torbern Tagesson², (1)World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, (2)University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark, (3)University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark

Model-based synthesis of locally contingent responses to global market signals (69407)

Nicholas R Magliocca, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States

Modeling Local vs. Global Dimensions of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (Invited) (81898)

Tom P Evans¹, Kelly K Caylor², Lyndon D Estes³, Paul Frederick McCord⁴, Shahzeen Attari⁴ and Justin Sheffield², (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States