Framing Land Use with Literature

I do not mean to artificially separate the literature that I gathered on land use. However, for my purposes, I want to break the overwhelming topic of land use and management into more meaningful chunks. In search, these subtopics came to be decision-making, globalization, biodiversity/ecological impacts, social impacts, and theory. These subtopics represent approaches that researches took to address and discuss land management. Therefore, I believe this literature review is not only helpful to further familiarize myself with the subject but also to give me an idea of the different lenses and situated contexts from which one can study.

These delineations make me think about what is missing from this research and also how I could combine these ideas to gain a multi-scale, multi-stakeholder perspective.  I think one way to fill in the gap and connect the ideas of this canon is to look at how ecological impacts socially affect communities (e.g. inaccessibility, shifting resource use, or adapting economies). Another way to deepen the approach is to connect development theories  with these management approaches. Talking with Maryann Bylander, I believe sociological theories have been very relevant in shaping this discourse and also critiquing it.

A. Decision-making

Bateman, Ian J, Amii R Harwood, Georgina M Mace, Robert T Watson, David J Abson, Barnaby Andrews, Amy Binner, Andrew Crowe, Brett H Day, Steve Dugdale, Carlo Fezzi, Jo Foden, David Hadley, Roy Haines-Young, Mark Hulme, Andreas Kontoleon, Andrew A Lovett, Paul Munday, Unai Pascual, James Paterson, Grischa Perino, Antara Sen, Gavin Siriwardena, Daan Van Soest, and Mette Termansen. “Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-making: Land Use in the United Kingdom.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, no. 6141 (2013): 45-50.

Goldstein, Joshua H, Giorgio Caldarone, Thomas Kaeo Duarte, Driss Ennaanay, Neil Hannahs, Guillermo Mendoza, Stephen Polasky, Stacie Wolny, and Gretchen C Daily. “Integrating Ecosystem-service Tradeoffs into Land-use Decisions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 19 (2012): 7565-70.

Wang, X. “Integrating Water-quality Management and Land-use Planning in a Watershed Context.(Barriers to Sustainable Water Quality Management: International Symposium)(Statistical Data Included).” Journal of Environmental Management 61, no. 1 (2001): 25.

B. Globalization

Lambin, Eric F, and Patrick Meyfroidt. “Global Land Use Change, Economic Globalization, and the Looming Land Scarcity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 9 (2011): 3465-72.

Hertel, Thomas W, Navin Ramankutty, and Uris Lantz C Baldos. “Global Market Integration Increases Likelihood That a Future African Green Revolution Could Increase Crop Land Use and CO2 Emissions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111, no. 38 (2014): 13799-804.

C. Biodiversity and Ecological Impacts

Newbold, Tim, Lawrence N Hudson, Andrew P Arnell, Sara Contu, Adriana De Palma, Simon Ferrier, Samantha L L Hill, Andrew J Hoskins, Igor Lysenko, Helen R P Phillips, Victoria J Burton, Charlotte W T Chng, Susan Emerson, Di Gao, Gwilym Pask-Hale, Jon Hutton, Martin Jung, Katia Sanchez-Ortiz, Benno I Simmons, Sarah Whitmee, Hanbin Zhang, Jörn P W Scharlemann, and Andy Purvis. “Has Land Use Pushed Terrestrial Biodiversity beyond the Planetary Boundary? A Global Assessment.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 353, no. 6296 (2016): 288-91.

Wright, Christopher K., and Wimberly, Michael C. “Recent Land Use Change in the Western Corn Belt Threatens Grasslands and Wetlands.(SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE)(Author Abstract).” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 110, no. 10 (2013): 4134.

Railsback, Steven F, and Matthew D Johnson. “Effects of Land Use on Bird Populations and Pest Control Services on Coffee Farms.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111, no. 16 (2014): 6109-14.

D. Social impacts

Coomes, Oliver T., Takasaki, Yoshito, and Rhemtulla, Jeanine M. “Land-use Poverty Traps Identified in Shifting Cultivation Systems Shape Long-term Tropical Forest Cover.(SPECIAL FEATURE: SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE)(Author Abstract).” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 108, no. 34 (2011): 13925.

Bürgi, Matthias, Li Li, and Thanasis Kizos. “Exploring Links between Culture and Biodiversity: Studying Land Use Intensity from the Plot to the Landscape Level.” Biodiversity and Conservation 24, no. 13 (2015): 3285-303.

Xu, Yin, and Zhou. “Social and Economic Impacts of Carbon Sequestration and Land Use Change on Peasant Households in Rural China: A Case Study of Liping, Guizhou Province.” Journal of Environmental Management 85, no. 3 (2007): 736-45.

E. Theory

Stringer, L., C. Fleskens, M. Reed, S. Vente, and J. Zengin. “Participatory Evaluation of Monitoring and Modeling of Sustainable Land Management Technologies in Areas Prone to Land Degradation.” Environmental Management 54, no. 5 (2014): 1022-042.

Kondylis, Mueller, Sheriff, and Zhu. “Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique.” World Development 78 (2016): 436-49.