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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006
	Middle-range theories of land system change
	Meyfroidt P.; Roy Chowdhury R.; de Bremond A.; Ellis E.C.; Erb K.-H.; Filatova T.; Garrett R.D.; Grove J.M.; Heinimann A.; Kuemmerle T.; Kull C.A.; Lambin E.F.; Landon Y.; le Polain de Waroux Y.; Messerli P.; Müller D.; Nielsen J.Ø.; Peterson G.D.; Rodriguez García V.; Schlüter M.; Turner B.L.; II; Verburg P.H.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	0959-3780
起始页码	52
结束页码	67
卷号	53
英文摘要	Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of land-use/cover changes. Land system science is a maturing field that has produced a wealth of methodological innovations and empirical observations on land-cover and land-use change, from patterns and processes to causes. We take stock of this knowledge by reviewing and synthesizing the theories that explain the causal mechanisms of land-use change, including systemic linkages between distant land-use changes, with a focus on agriculture and forestry processes. We first review theories explaining changes in land-use extent, such as agricultural expansion, deforestation, frontier development, and land abandonment, and changes in land-use intensity, such as agricultural intensification and disintensification. We then synthesize theories of higher-level land system change processes, focusing on: (i) land-use spillovers, including land sparing and rebound effects with intensification, leakage, indirect land-use change, and land-use displacement, and (ii) land-use transitions, defined as structural non-linear changes in land systems, including forest transitions. Theories focusing on the causes of land system changes span theoretically and epistemologically disparate knowledge domains and build from deductive, abductive, and inductive approaches. A grand, integrated theory of land system change remains elusive. Yet, we show that middle-range theories – defined here as contextual generalizations that describe chains of causal mechanisms explaining a well-bounded range of phenomena, as well as the conditions that trigger, enable, or prevent these causal chains –, provide a path towards generalized knowledge of land systems. This knowledge can support progress towards sustainable social-ecological systems. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Box and arrow framework; Deforestation; Human-environment systems; Indirect land-use change; Land-use intensification; Land-use spillover; Urban dynamics
学科领域	agricultural intensification; agriculture; deforestation; forestry; innovation; land cover; land use; land use change; methodology; nature-society relations; spillover effect; sustainability; urban area
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agricultural intensification; agriculture; deforestation; forestry; innovation; land cover; land use; land use change; methodology; nature-society relations; spillover effect; sustainability; urban area
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117092
作者单位	Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium; F.R.S.-FNRS, Brussels, 1000, Belgium; Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, United States; Geographical Sciences Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States; Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Schottenfeldgasse 29, Vienna, A-1070, Austria; Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, Enschede, AE 7500, Netherlands; School of Systems (SML), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sy...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Meyfroidt P.,Roy Chowdhury R.,de Bremond A.,et al. Middle-range theories of land system change[J],2018,53.
APA	Meyfroidt P..,Roy Chowdhury R..,de Bremond A..,Ellis E.C..,Erb K.-H..,...&Verburg P.H..(2018).Middle-range theories of land system change.Global Environmental change,53.
MLA	Meyfroidt P.,et al."Middle-range theories of land system change".Global Environmental change 53(2018).