"Land Use, Land Cover, and Food-Energy-Environment Trade-Off: Key Issues and Insights for Millennium Development Goals

Abstract

"This article offers a synoptic overview of the current status of land use, land cover, and ensuing changes in them in the wake of drivers and anthropogenic changes in global biosphere. Also, it discusses the effects of such changes on global greenhouse gases, causing climate change and affecting biodiversity. This is also associated with factors leading to land acquisition. Analytical modeling to study the myriad of interlinakges is briefly surveyed. Given the preponderant role ascribed to climate change and human development in the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals, scientific research from a multidisciplinary perspective is needed for informed debate on growth, poverty, and the environment nexus. ? 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.