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Experiments in Globalisation, Food Security and Land Use Decision Making

Brown, Calum ORCID iD icon; Murray-Rust, Dave; Vliet, Jasper van; Alam, Shah Jamal; Verburg, Peter H.; Rounsevell, Mark D. ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

The globalisation of trade affects land use, food production and environments around the world. In principle, globalisation can maximise productivity and efficiency if competition prompts specialisation on the basis of productive capacity. In reality, however, such specialisation is often constrained by practical or political barriers, including those intended to ensure national or regional food security. These are likely to produce globally sub-optimal distributions of land uses. Both outcomes are subject to the responses of individual land managers to economic and environmental stimuli, and these responses are known to be variable and often (economically) irrational. We investigate the consequences of stylised food security policies and globalisation of agricultural markets on land use patterns under a variety of modelled forms of land manager behaviour, including variation in production levels, tenacity, land use intensity and multi-functionality. We find that a system entirely dedicated to regional food security is inferior to an entirely globalised system in terms of overall production levels, but that several forms of behaviour limit the difference between the two, and that variations in land use intensity and functionality can substantially increase the provision of food and other ecosystem services in both cases. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000080110
Veröffentlicht am 17.04.2018
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114213
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Zitationen: 23
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2014
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1932-6203
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-801102
KITopen-ID: 1000080110
Erschienen in PLoS one
Verlag Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Band 9
Heft 12
Seiten Art.Nr. e114213
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