Libro
The Global Land Squeeze: Managing the Growing Competition for Land
Fecha
2023Autor
Searchinger, Timothy
Peng, Liqing
Jessica, Zionts
Waite, Richard
Institución
Resumen
The world faces a global land squeeze as the world
population grows to 10 billion by 2050. Human demands
for food, wood products, and urban uses will expand as the
population grows and incomes rise. These demands will lead
to more conversion of native habitats to agricultural and urban
uses; in addition, more natural forests will be converted to wood
plantations and increasing amounts of wood will be harvested
from relatively natural forests. This growing demand for land based products will compete with the ability of the remaining
native habitats to store carbon and support biodiversity