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Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries
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Economic and population growth result in increasing use of biophysical resources, including land and biomass. Human activities influence the biological productivity of land, altering material and energy flows in the biosphere. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) is an integrated socioecological indicator quantifying effects of human-induced changes in productivity and harvest on ecological biomass flows. We discuss how HANPP is defined, measured, and interpreted. Two principal approaches for constructing HANPP assessments exist: (a) In an area-specific approach, HANPP serves as an indicator of land-use intensity, gauging impacts on terrestrial ecosystems in a defined area; and (b) the consumption-based “embodied HANPP” approach allows assessment of impacts related to individual products or the aggregate consumption of nation-states. The HANPP framework can help to estimate upper limits for the biosphere's capacity to provide humanity with biomass for food, fiber, and bioenergy and to analyze systemic feedbacks between the delivery of these resources. We outline HANPP's global patterns and trajectories and how HANPP relates to planetary boundaries, global resource use, and pressures on biodiversity.
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“Currently approximately one-quarter to one-third of the total potential net primary production on land is used by humans, i.e., of the net primary productivity (NPP) that would prevail in the absence of land use [estimated at approximately 60 GtC a -1 (6)]”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Haberl, H., Erb, K.-H., & Krausmann, F.
- Affiliations
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- University of Klagenfurt (AT)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Environment and Resources
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2014-10-17
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 363-391
- ISSN
- 1543-5938 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2050
- OpenAlex
- W2101094686
- Cited by
- 275
- References
- 161
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 15
- FWCI
- 1.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Environment and Resources (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Keywords
- human appropriation of net primary production, planetary boundaries, land use intensity, biomass consumption, food and fiber production, bioenergy, biodiversity pressures, material and energy flows
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