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Author Brandão, Miguel (Miguel Mendonca Reis), author.

Title Food, feed, fuel, timber or carbon sink? : Towards sustainable land use : a consequential life cycle approach / Miguel Brandão, Llorenç Milà i Canals, Roland Clift
Published Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 125 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series SpringerBriefs in environmental science, 2191-5547
SpringerBriefs in environmental science. 2191-5547
Contents Introduction -- Sustainability of land use : a systems approach -- Consequential life cycle framework and methodology for the integrated sustainability impact assessment of land-use systems -- Discussion and conclusions
Summary "This book provides a holistic framework for assessing the environmental and economic impacts of land-use strategies for a range of purposes, such as food, animal feed, biomass and biofuels, and timber. Using land for one purpose negates its use for any other competing purpose. Given that it is in limited supply, land needs to be optimised so that it can meet the increasing demand for crops of a growing and wealthier human population, while providing ecosystem services, such as carbon storage (i.e. climate-change mitigation). The framework is quantitative and includes various indirect effects, like indirect land-use change, and is a robust basis with which to assess global impacts from land-use decisions on climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity.''-- ProQuest Ebook Central resource page, viewed October 28, 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 23, 2021)
Subject Land use -- Environmental aspects
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable development.
sustainable development.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
Land use -- Environmental aspects
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable development
Form Electronic book
Author Milà i Canals, Llorenç, author.
Clift, R. (Roland), author.
ISBN 9789402420999
9402420991