Global Change and the Challenges of Sustainably Feeding a Growing Planet

• Main Authors: Hertel, Thomas W. (Author), Baldos, Uris Lantz C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental management.; Agricultural economics.; Environmental Management.; Agricultural Economics.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.

This book explores the fundamental determinants of sustainability as seen through the lens of long term changes in agricultural land use and the associated implications for environmental and food security. Each chapter builds part of the global sustainability story by focusing on one driver, or unde...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1) Overview of global land use, food security and the environment
• 2) Population and income as drivers of global land use
• 3) Productivity growth and yield response in the crop sector
• 4) Potential for cropland area response
• 5) Biofuels and its impact on global land use
• 6) Climate change, land use and the environment
• 7) Competing demands for land in the 21st century
• 8) The global livestock industry as a driver of land use
• 9) Food security
• 10): Looking back to go forward: Global land use in 2050
• References
• Glossary
• Appendix
• Index.