Agricultural land use and the sustainability of social-ecological systems

Paz, Diego Bengochea; Henderson, Kirsten; Loreau, Michel

doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109312

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“…Ecosystem services are well-known and documented especially in a southern African context (van Jaarsveld et al, 2005;Egoh et al, 2008;Fenta et al, 2020;Mowat and Rhodes, 2020) and these are linked directly to human-environment (socio-ecological) relationships and aspects of sustainable development (Bailey and Buck, 2016;Sigwela et al, 2017;Cerretelli et al, 2018;Bengochea Paz et al, 2020). Many local case studies worldwide have described different ecosystem services and their uses by communities in different, mainly agricultural, contexts (e.g., Mensah et al, 2017;Swemmer et al, 2019;Herd-Hoare and Shackleton, 2020;Lhoest et al, 2020).…”

Section: Environmental Services As a Basis For Understanding Of Soil Food And Water Systems The Nature Of Ecological Environmental Servicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Services: A New Approach Toward Addressing Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Knight¹

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The physical environment provides resources and specific types of environmental services relevant to the maintenance of human livelihoods globally and with specific reference to sub-Saharan Africa, including soils, food, and water systems. Previous studies on the shared nexus of such resources commonly view these as self-contained systems operating independent of their physical contexts provided by landscape-scale geomorphology and its related processes. This study critically examines the viewpoints adopted by such nexus studies with specific reference to sub-Saharan Africa, arguing that these studies are reductive, considering only the shared disciplinary overlap (nexus) and not their wider contexts, and are based on only a limited understanding of the workings of physical systems. This study argues that considering the attributes of the physical landscape and its provision of environmental services provides a broader and scientifically-informed context for understanding of interlinked issues such as relationships between soil–food–water systems. Framing such “nexus” studies in this wider context can derive a better understanding of the connections between different elements such as soil, food, and water, amongst others, and with respect to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The concept of environmental services is therefore a more powerful tool to examine both the connections between physical and human environmental processes and properties in sub-Saharan Africa, and to address overarching environmental issues such as land degradation, soil erosion loss, water scarcity, and impacts of climate change.

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Section: Environmental Services As a Basis For Understanding Of Soil Food And Water Systems The Nature Of Ecological Environmental Servicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Socio-ecological approaches that consider human use and ecological resources as part of a continuum (e.g., Temesgen and Wu, 2018;Bengochea Paz et al, 2020);…”

Section: Environmental Services As a Basis For Understanding Of Soil Food And Water Systems The Nature Of Ecological Environmental Servicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Services: A New Approach Toward Addressing Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Knight¹

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…3. Create conditions and incentives, possibly incentives, for people to use their land competently and efficiently, and for products to meet the requirements of each buyer [10]. Ensure the protection of land holdings so that the land that the state issues is used for its intended purpose and does not stand idle.…”

Section: Actual Problems Of Land Legal Relations In the Agro-industrial Complexmentioning

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Problems of land legal relations in the agro-industrial complex

Ozernaya

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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“…The essence of the merging classification method is to merge and classify land-use types. This method can compensate for the deficiency of land use classification by considering ecological functions to a certain extent and is easy to connect with other land-use classification systems [19]. Liu [2] merged the territory production, living, and ecological space service functions in China based on the dialectical relationship between land use types and functions, land use classification standards, and the principle of 'bottom-up, functional grading'.…”

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Functional Assessment and Coordination Characteristics of Production, Living, Ecological Function—A Case Study of Henan Province, China

Jian-chun

Zhang

2021

IJERPH

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Multifunctional state assessment was the basis of time sequence design of territory spatial development and overall utilisation. This study aimed to identify the ecological-production-living (PLE) territory spatial function to provide a basis for territory spatial planning. It took Henan Province as the research area. This study developed a methodology to assess differentiation characteristics for PLE function, a method that integrates functional merging and geographic information technology. We used the coordination degree model and spatial autocorrelation analysis to reveal the coordination of spatial functions of the province. The results were as follows: (1) During the study period, the land production function of main grain-producing areas decreased slowly, and production and living function values of the Central Plains urban agglomeration with Zhengzhou as the centre were in an upward trend. The characteristics of urban-rural dualization were prominent, and ecological function value decreased year by year. (2) The laws of territorial spatial functions had different manifestations in different stages (1990–2005 and 2005–2018). By different characteristic laws, the change in production function in the later period was bigger than that in the previous period. The living function maintained a good continuity expansion characteristic before and after. The spatial regularity distribution characteristics of ecological function were weak, and the overall environment became worse than before. (3) The territory space of middle and low coordination function types was the most important type, and the aggregation was relatively weak. Xuchang County and Weihui City showed better states of functional coordination aggregation. Lushi County, Xinxian County, and Shangcheng County, which were in the western and southern mountainous and hilly areas, showed low-low aggregation characteristics. Thus, the government will strengthen targeted control over territorial space. This study provides a reference for the overall deployment of the development and utilisation of territory space in Henan Province.

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Agricultural land use and the sustainability of social-ecological systems

Cited by 40 publications

References 54 publications

Environmental Services: A New Approach Toward Addressing Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Environmental Services: A New Approach Toward Addressing Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Problems of land legal relations in the agro-industrial complex

Functional Assessment and Coordination Characteristics of Production, Living, Ecological Function—A Case Study of Henan Province, China

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