Nature Communications (May 2019)

Key determinants of global land-use projections

  • Elke Stehfest,
  • Willem-Jan van Zeist,
  • Hugo Valin,
  • Petr Havlik,
  • Alexander Popp,
  • Page Kyle,
  • Andrzej Tabeau,
  • Daniel Mason-D’Croz,
  • Tomoko Hasegawa,
  • Benjamin L. Bodirsky,
  • Katherine Calvin,
  • Jonathan C. Doelman,
  • Shinichiro Fujimori,
  • Florian Humpenöder,
  • Hermann Lotze-Campen,
  • Hans van Meijl,
  • Keith Wiebe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09945-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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There lacks model comparison of global land use change projections. Here the authors explored how different long-term drivers determine land use and food availability projections and they showed that the key determinants population growth and improvements in agricultural efficiency.