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In 2015 over 190 countries signed the Paris Climate Change Agreement to achieve net zero by 2050. A decade later these same countries are now grappling with complex challenges concerning land use policy with profound implications for agriculture. For example, how much land should be retained for food production and how much should be repurposed to achieve key goals such as improved carbon sequestration?
Farming and land use change to achieve net zero: Achieving multi-functional landscapes reviews key issues in planning land use change at a national scale, highlighting the importance of involving and negotiating trade-offs with stakeholders such as farmers and landowners. The book also explores ways to implement particular land use changes such as rewetting farmland to restore peatland, reforestation and growing bioenergy crops.
Dr Guy Robinson is Adjunct Professor at Adelaide University, Australia. He is also a LISA Fellow in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. As an internationally-renowned expert on the environmental aspects of rural development around the globe, he has held positions at many leading universities. Professor Robinson is Emeritus Editor of the leading journal Land Use Policy, which he edited for 12 years, and is Editor-in-Chief of Research in Globalization.
Part 1 Planning land use change
- 1.Key challenges/issues in developing a national net zero land use strategy for agriculture: George Bishop, University of Galway, Ireland;
- 2.Using soil data to inform farming-related land use decisions for net zero: Atul K. Jain, University of Illinois, USA;
- 3.Modelling farming-related land-use change scenarios for net zero: Andrew Barnes, SRUC, UK;
- 4.Developing and using land use decision support tools (DSTs) for farmers and landowners in achieving net zero: Julie Urquhart, Countryside and Community Research Institute – University of Gloucestershire, UK;
Part 2 Implementing land use change
- 5.Establishing land use priorities/national strategies for managing agricultural peatlands to achieve net zero: Ian Rotherham, Sheffield Hallam University, UK;
- 6.Partial rewetting techniques for lowland agricultural peatland soils: Sarah Johnson, Lancashire Peatland Project, UK;
- 7.Developing paludiculture in restored lowland peatland soils: Nigel Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK;
- 8.Key challenges/issues in integrating trees into farmed landscapes: Katrin Prager, University of Aberdeen, UK;
- 9.Establishing land use priorities/national strategies for growing bioenergy crops: Iain Donnison, University of Aberystwyth, UK;
- 10.Optimising cultivation and use of Miscanthus as a bioenergy crop: John Clifton-Brown, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany;
- 11.Optimising cultivation and use of willow as a bioenergy crop: Timothy Volk, State University of New York, USA;
Part 3 Conclusion
- 12.Achieving multifunctional landscapes: implications for rural development policies: Guy M. Robinson, Adelaide University, Australia;