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“However, this potential is often estimated using highly uncertain data sets (Field, Campbell, & Lobell, 2008;Goldewijk & Verburg, 2013;Hoogwijk et al., 2003;Meiyappan & Jain, 2012;Nijsen, Smeets, Stehfest, & Vuuren, 2012;Ramankutty, Heller, & Rhemtulla, 2010;vanVuuren, Vliet, & Stehfest, 2009), and tends to be overstated, with little attention given to the current status and use of these degraded”
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“Even a precise map of the physical area of degraded land would significantly overestimate its potential by neglecting its myriad social, environmental, and political constraints (Lambin et al., 2013;Young, 1999).”
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“Despite uncertainties in these estimates of degraded areas and their ideal uses, improved understanding of our global land base is necessary to address worldwide land scarcity, and to develop policies around bioenergy and large-scale land acquisitions (Lambin & Meyfroidt, 2011;Lambin et al., 2013).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lambin, E. F., Gibbs, H. K., Ferreira, L., Grau, R., Mayaux, P., Meyfroidt, P., Morton, D. C., Rudel, T. K., Gasparri, I., & Munger, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Universidade Federal de Goiás (BR)
- National University of Tucumán (AR)
- European Commission (BE)
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Venue
- Global Environmental Change
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-10
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 892-901
- ISSN
- 0959-3780 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1967032686
- Cited by
- 348
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 7
- FWCI
- 23.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Global Environmental Change (publishedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
- Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion)
- CONICET Digital (CONICET) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Francqui Foundation and Academia Belgica
- NSF (CNHS 0709598, 0709645)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Keywords
- cropland expansion, land conversion, bottom-up approach, ecosystem service trade-offs, rainfed agriculture, land use restrictions, underutilized land, agricultural intensification
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