Land grabbing as a driver of environmental change

Bibliographic Data

ID8360402
AuthorsEli D Lazarus (0000-0003-2404-9661, Cardiff University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume46
Issue1
Pages74-82
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12072
OpenAlexW1777463524
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited57

A worldwide increase in large‐scale land acquisitions over the past decade has been described as a global land rush for access to natural resources. ‘Land grabbing’ is a dynamic of land‐use change that can enable especially rapid environmental transformations across vast spatial scales. New scholarship is beginning to address these land deals in terms of their implications for social and political systems, but exploitative land uses also leave legacies of change in physical landscapes. Historical precedents from around the world, including various examples of frontier expansion, reflect the kinds of environmental responses that modern land grabbing could induce. Insights into land grabbing as a mechanism of abrupt, large‐scale transitions in human–environmental systems is a research opportunity and a pressing grand challenge for E arth‐surface science

Cartography · Civil engineering · Climate change · Economic geography · Economics · Environmental change · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Frontier · Geography · Land grabbing · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Natural (archaeology) · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio) · Scholarship · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Engineering · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Law

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