Land use science has traditionally used case-study approaches for in-depth investigation of
land use change processes and impacts. Meta-studies synthesize findings across case …

Land system science provides a theoretical lens for deepening our understanding of
interactions between social and environmental systems. Synthesis and integration of land …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

In an increasingly interconnected world, human–environment interactions involving flows of
people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding in magnitude and extent …

In the 2010s, the 'Blue Economy'has been widely advocated by a spectrum of interests as a
strategy to save the world's oceans and water. This article explores what the Blue Economy …

Land use change is influenced by a complexity of drivers that transcend spatial, institutional
and temporal scales. The analytical framework of telecoupling has recently been proposed …

Concerns over rapid widespread changes in social-ecological systems and their
consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, food security, and human livelihoods …

their attempt to introduce, describe, and ultimately formalize a new subdiscipline of
geography, Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane have created a thorough …

Using integrated official land use statistics and remote sensing data, this study investigated
the processes and mechanisms of urban land expansion in the Nan**g metropolitan area …

Land system science and affiliated research linked to sustainability require improved
understanding and theorization of land and its change as a social-ecological system (SES) …