Opportunities to improve impact, integration, and evaluation of land change models

DG Brown, PH Verburg, RG Pontius Jr… - Current Opinion in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review approaches to modeling land change in scientific and practical
applications.•Modeling approaches need to be considered relative to the different purposes …

[HTML][HTML] Incentives, land use, and ecosystem services: Synthesizing complex linkages

BA Bryan - Environmental science & policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Incentive schemes are increasingly used to motivate the supply of ecosystem services from
agro-ecosystems through changes in land use and management. Here, I synthesize the …

Impacts of Chilean forest subsidies on forest cover, carbon and biodiversity

R Heilmayr, C Echeverría, EF Lambin - Nature Sustainability, 2020 - nature.com
In response to the important benefits forests provide, there is a growing effort to reforest the
world. Past policies and current commitments indicate that many of these forests will be …

The impact of land-use change on ecosystem services, biodiversity and returns to landowners: a case study in the state of Minnesota

S Polasky, E Nelson, D Pennington… - … and Resource Economics, 2011 - Springer
Land-use change has a significant impact on the world's ecosystems. Changes in the extent
and composition of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other ecosystems have large impacts …

Major uses of land in the United States, 2012

D Bigelow, A Borchers - 2017 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Abstract The United States has a total land area of about 2.3 billion acres. In 2012, the major
land uses were grassland pasture and rangeland at 655 million acres (29 percent of US …

Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions

M Piquer-Rodríguez, V Butsic, P Gärtner, L Macchi… - Applied geography, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands
increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The …

[HTML][HTML] Land-cover change in the conterminous United States from 1973 to 2000

BM Sleeter, TL Sohl, TR Loveland, RF Auch… - Global environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Land-cover change in the conterminous United States was quantified by interpreting change
from satellite imagery for a sample stratified by 84 ecoregions. Gross and net changes …

A century of research on rural development and regional issues

EG Irwin, AM Isserman, M Kilkenny… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rural North America has undergone a major economic transformation over the past
century due to labor‐saving technological progress, reductions in transport costs, and rising …

The indirect land use impacts of United States biofuel policies: the importance of acreage, yield, and bilateral trade responses

R Keeney, TW Hertel - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent analysis has highlighted agricultural land conversion as a significant debit in the
greenhouse gas accounting of ethanol as an alternative fuel. A controversial element of this …

Agri-environmental programs in the United States and Canada

K Baylis, J Coppess, BM Gramig… - … Economics and Policy, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Canada and the United States have a rich history of policy interventions aimed at
improving environmental outcomes from agricultural production. We review the agri …