Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect

In the context of growing societal demands for land-based products, crop production can be increased through expanding cropland or intensifying production on cultivated land. Intensification can allow sparing land for nature, but it can also drive further expansion of cropland, i.e. a rebound effect...

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Main Authors: Virginia Rodríguez García, Frédéric Gaspart, Thomas Kastner, Patrick Meyfroidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8b14