Background Climate change is a global problem, threatening the sustainability of the food
system. Economic approaches like carbon pricing and emissions trading systems aim to put …

Humans have made profound changes to the Earth. The resulting societal challenges of the
Anthropocene (eg, climate change and impacts, renewable energy, adaptive infrastructure …

The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation
worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of …

The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-
based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods …

Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise
lost to agricultural expansion. Yet which conditions enable such sparing or whether …

Group-shared attributes, coded in cultural systems, heavily influence how land is used.
Despite recent advances in behavioural theory, the central role of culture in land-use …

In Europe and elsewhere, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) are designed to reduce
agriculture's impacts on the environment. Designing effective schemes requires an …

Natural and social scientists everywhere are struggling to understand how to proceed in the
face of continued biodiversity loss and the injustices brought upon people living in and …

Cropland abandonment is a widespread land-change process globally, which can stem from
the accelerated outmigration of the population from rural to urban areas, socio-economic …

Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on
the Earth's surface. This paper develops a conceptual model of factors underlying frontier …