Cannabis Indica

Authors
Justin A Johnson, Christina M Kennedy, James R Oakleaf, Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Stephen Polasky, Joseph Kiesecker
Publication date
2021/9/1
Journal
Ecological Economics
Volume
187
Pages
107106
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Understanding potential future patterns of human-induced land-use and land-cover change is critical to assessing and proactively managing the tradeoffs between development and the environment. Most global land-use change assessments, however, consider a narrow set of economic sectors, focusing primarily on agricultural and urban sectors. We present a global land-use change model that includes detailed energy and mining sectors (11 in total) in addition to agriculture and urban sectors. We find that energy and extractive sectors had a large expansion footprint (1.26 million km2) projected to 2050, which was nearly as large as the cropland expansion footprint (1.54 million km2) and larger than the urban expansion footprint (0.34 million km2). Moreover, energy and mining expansion account for nearly 80% of all projected expansion into the world's most intact natural lands, suggesting that these sectors …
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