Chad Monfreda
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chad Monfreda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Monfreda |
| SIGNATURE | MONFREDA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Enhancing urban resilience knowledge systems through experiential pluralism
Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography
Solutions for a cultivated planet
Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world's future food security and sustainability needs, food production must grow substantially while, at the same time, agriculture's environmenta…
Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re‐Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics – By William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy
Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . xv + 260 pages . ISBN 978-0262514378 , $23.00, paper . William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy . 2010 . Knowledge is often held to be a way to bring order to the unruly process of making environmental policy. But what if the process of making and using knowledge is just as fraught and tangled as the policy process it prom…
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data and The Politics of Global Warming - By Paul N. Edwards
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data and The Politics of Global Warming . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . xxvii + 518 pages ISBN 978-0262013925 , $32.95 hardcover . Paul N. Edwards . 2010 . According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2010 ranks as the hottest year since instrumental temperature records began one-and-a-half centuries ago. Scientists predict far greater changes in the century to come. But how, amid a welter of skeptica…
Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land
Expanding croplands to meet the needs of a growing population, changing diets, and biofuel production comes at the cost of reduced carbon stocks in natural vegetation and soils. Here, we present a spatially explicit global analysis of tradeoffs between carbon stocks and current crop yields. The difference among regions is striking. For example, for each unit of land cleared, the tropics lose nearly two times as much carbon (∼120 tons·ha −1 vs. ∼6…
Mind the gap: How do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?
Aim As the demands for food, feed and fuel increase in coming decades, society will be pressed to increase agricultural production – whether by increasing yields on already cultivated lands or by cultivating currently natural areas – or to change current crop consumption patterns. In this analysis, we consider where yields might be increased on existing croplands, and how crop yields are constrained by biophysical (e.g. climate) versus management…
Setting the stage for new global knowledge: Science, Economics, and Indigenous knowledge in ′The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity′ at the Fourth World Conservation Congress
Global environmental knowledge underwrites the authority of international institutions charged with managing climate change, biodiversity loss and other looming environmental problems. While numerous studies show how global knowledge gains authority at a macro-scale, few examine the everyday practices that establish authority in concrete settings. Investigating such day-to-day practices is important because concrete institutional settings may off…
Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels
Aggressive renewable energy policies have helped the biofuels industry grow at a rate few could have predicted. However, while discourse on the energy balance and environmental impacts of agricultural biofuel feedstocks are common, the potential they hold for additional production has received considerably less attention. Here we present a new biofuel yield analysis based on the best available global agricultural census data. These new data give …
Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels
The developing country comparison bars in figure 3 on page 6 of the original article have been revised as shown in the PDF
A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts
Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000
Croplands cover ∼15 million km 2 of the planet and provide the bulk of the food and fiber essential to human well‐being. Most global land cover data sets from satellites group croplands into just a few categories, thereby excluding information that is critical for answering key questions ranging from biodiversity conservation to food security to biogeochemical cycling. Information about agricultural land use practices like crop selection, yield, …
Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000
Agricultural activities have dramatically altered our planet's land surface. To understand the extent and spatial distribution of these changes, we have developed a new global data set of croplands and pastures circa 2000 by combining agricultural inventory data and satellite‐derived land cover data. The agricultural inventory data, with much greater spatial detail than previously available, is used to train a land cover classification data set o…
Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: The effects of changing yield and technology
Biofuels from land-rich tropical countries may help displace foreign petroleum imports for many industrialized nations, providing a possible solution to the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. But concern is mounting that crop-based biofuels will increase net greenhouse gas emissions if feedstocks are produced by expanding agricultural lands. Here we quantify the 'carbon payback time' for a range of biofuel crop expansion pathw…
Global Consequences of Land Use
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are being driven by the need to provide food, fiber, water, and shelter to more than six billion people. Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, a…
Ecological footprints and human appropriation of net primary production: A comparison
Ecological footprint time series of Austria, the Philippines, and South Korea for 1961–1999: Comparing the conventional approach to an ‘actual land area’ approach
Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: Resolving conceptual challenges
Establishing national natural capital accounts based on detailed Ecological Footprint and biological capacity assessments
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area required for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 19…
Establishing national natural capital accounts based on detailed Ecological Footprint and biological capacity assessments
Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: Resolving conceptual challenges
Ecological footprint time series of Austria, the Philippines, and South Korea for 1961–1999: Comparing the conventional approach to an ‘actual land area’ approach
Ecological footprints and human appropriation of net primary production: A comparison
Enhancing urban resilience knowledge systems through experiential pluralism
Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data and The Politics of Global Warming - By Paul N. Edwards
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data and The Politics of Global Warming . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . xxvii + 518 pages ISBN 978-0262013925 , $32.95 hardcover . Paul N. Edwards . 2010 . According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2010 ranks as the hottest year since instrumental temperature records began one-and-a-half centuries ago. Scientists predict far greater changes in the century to come. But how, amid a welter of skeptica…
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area required for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 19…
Ecological footprints and human appropriation of net primary production: A comparison
Ecological footprint time series of Austria, the Philippines, and South Korea for 1961–1999: Comparing the conventional approach to an ‘actual land area’ approach
Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: Resolving conceptual challenges
Establishing national natural capital accounts based on detailed Ecological Footprint and biological capacity assessments
Global Consequences of Land Use
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are being driven by the need to provide food, fiber, water, and shelter to more than six billion people. Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, a…
Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000
Croplands cover ∼15 million km 2 of the planet and provide the bulk of the food and fiber essential to human well‐being. Most global land cover data sets from satellites group croplands into just a few categories, thereby excluding information that is critical for answering key questions ranging from biodiversity conservation to food security to biogeochemical cycling. Information about agricultural land use practices like crop selection, yield, …
Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000
Agricultural activities have dramatically altered our planet's land surface. To understand the extent and spatial distribution of these changes, we have developed a new global data set of croplands and pastures circa 2000 by combining agricultural inventory data and satellite‐derived land cover data. The agricultural inventory data, with much greater spatial detail than previously available, is used to train a land cover classification data set o…
Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: The effects of changing yield and technology
Biofuels from land-rich tropical countries may help displace foreign petroleum imports for many industrialized nations, providing a possible solution to the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. But concern is mounting that crop-based biofuels will increase net greenhouse gas emissions if feedstocks are produced by expanding agricultural lands. Here we quantify the 'carbon payback time' for a range of biofuel crop expansion pathw…
Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels
Aggressive renewable energy policies have helped the biofuels industry grow at a rate few could have predicted. However, while discourse on the energy balance and environmental impacts of agricultural biofuel feedstocks are common, the potential they hold for additional production has received considerably less attention. Here we present a new biofuel yield analysis based on the best available global agricultural census data. These new data give …
Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels
The developing country comparison bars in figure 3 on page 6 of the original article have been revised as shown in the PDF
A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts
Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land
Expanding croplands to meet the needs of a growing population, changing diets, and biofuel production comes at the cost of reduced carbon stocks in natural vegetation and soils. Here, we present a spatially explicit global analysis of tradeoffs between carbon stocks and current crop yields. The difference among regions is striking. For example, for each unit of land cleared, the tropics lose nearly two times as much carbon (∼120 tons·ha −1 vs. ∼6…
Mind the gap: How do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?
Aim As the demands for food, feed and fuel increase in coming decades, society will be pressed to increase agricultural production – whether by increasing yields on already cultivated lands or by cultivating currently natural areas – or to change current crop consumption patterns. In this analysis, we consider where yields might be increased on existing croplands, and how crop yields are constrained by biophysical (e.g. climate) versus management…
Setting the stage for new global knowledge: Science, Economics, and Indigenous knowledge in ′The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity′ at the Fourth World Conservation Congress
Global environmental knowledge underwrites the authority of international institutions charged with managing climate change, biodiversity loss and other looming environmental problems. While numerous studies show how global knowledge gains authority at a macro-scale, few examine the everyday practices that establish authority in concrete settings. Investigating such day-to-day practices is important because concrete institutional settings may off…
Solutions for a cultivated planet
Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world's future food security and sustainability needs, food production must grow substantially while, at the same time, agriculture's environmenta…
Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re‐Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics – By William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy
Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . xv + 260 pages . ISBN 978-0262514378 , $23.00, paper . William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy . 2010 . Knowledge is often held to be a way to bring order to the unruly process of making environmental policy. But what if the process of making and using knowledge is just as fraught and tangled as the policy process it prom…
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data and The Politics of Global Warming - By Paul N. Edwards
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data and The Politics of Global Warming . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . xxvii + 518 pages ISBN 978-0262013925 , $32.95 hardcover . Paul N. Edwards . 2010 . According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2010 ranks as the hottest year since instrumental temperature records began one-and-a-half centuries ago. Scientists predict far greater changes in the century to come. But how, amid a welter of skeptica…
Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography
Enhancing urban resilience knowledge systems through experiential pluralism
Environmental Science (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Biology (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 works)