Land Use/Land-Use Change Vision Workshop
The workshop evolved from collaboration between the three institutions during 2011–2012. Its objective was to establish a research activity on sustainable land use and emissions resulting from land use in a globally consistent and long-term emissions-constraining context, acknowledging planetary and socio-ecological boundaries, using Brazil as case study.
Understanding the LUC-climate change nexus in the tropics is a challenge of global relevance and depends on achieving sustainable land use while addressing environmental limitations (e.g., emission constraints, biodiversity conservation, and provision of ecosystem services) and human well-being.
The LUC workshop was carried out back to back with the Rio+20 Pre-Conference Panel on Land-use change and biomass production: Brazil’s carbon emissions today and in the future (held Rio de Janeiro, 12 June 2012). The panel centered on Brazil’s carbon emissions related to biomass production in a short versus long-term and a national versus global context. It introduced the perspective of an emissions-constrained world which requires a sustainable relationship among biomass/food production (and carbon emissions), environmental conservation, and social well-being.
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