解释土地使用边界的出现
Patrick Meyfroidt1,2, Dilini Abeygunawardane1,3, Matthias Baumann4
1Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.
Royal Society open science
|July 18, 2024
概括
了解土地使用边界对于可持续性至关重要. 这项研究提出了一个关于这些边界如何出现和维持的新理论,重点关注农业和森林砍伐.
科学领域:
- 可持续性科学 可持续性科学
- 环境地理环境地理
- 资源管理 资源管理
背景情况:
- 土地利用的扩张带来了重大可持续性挑战,包括气候变化,粮食安全和生物多样性丧失.
- 边界,即资源快速开发和转型的区域,是这种扩张的核心,但边缘地区边界的出现尚不清楚.
- 现有的研究主要解释了活跃边界的推进,特别是在热带森林,忽视了最初的出现阶段.
研究的目的:
- 综合概念工具,以了解资源和土地使用边界.
- 提出一种新的理论,解释边缘地区边界的出现.
- 确定推动积极边界的出现和维持的关键机制,以改善可持续性治理.
主要方法:
- 现有理论的综合:土地租金,聚合经济,边界作为波浪,领土化,摩擦,机会,预期和期望.
- 基于外源的推动,过去的浪潮遗产和演员预期的新边界理论的发展.
- 维持活跃边界机制的分析:差异性租金创造/捕获和聚合经济.
主要成果:
- 一个新的理论确定了外源的推动,过去的浪潮遗产和演员预期作为边境出现的关键驱动因素.
- 差异性租金的创造和捕获,以及聚合经济,被认为是维持活跃边界的机制.
- 该研究提供了适用于热带农业和森林砍伐边界的框架,对开采资源边界有潜在的相关性.
结论:
- 了解边界出现机制对于解决与土地利用变化相关的可持续性问题至关重要.
- 提出的理论提供了更全面的边境动态的观点,超越了积极的进步.
- 讨论了对边界治理的五个影响,以促进可持续发展和资源管理.
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