Title:
Resource-Efficient Land Use - Towards a Global Sustainable Land Use Standard - Analysis of Global Land Use Change
Author(s):
Lutzenberger, A.K.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
Globalands is a project in cooperation with IINAS, Ecologic Institute, Karl-Heinz Knickel and Leuphana University of Lüneburg funded by the Federal Environmental Agency Germany. The aim of this project is to develop necessary drafts and strategic requirements for global accepted standards and policies to implement a “Global Sustainable Land Use Standard”. Since the 1970ies and after the Rio-Conference in 1992 there has been a discussion about the sustainable use of natural resources. The debate of the sustainability of bioenergy in recent years focused more and more on the question of land use, because land use is the interface between climate change, fossil resources, biomass production and a few other points, but it is also part and driver of socioeconomic Interactions. The EU bound instruments and policies for the reduction of greenhouse gases, and for the raising of resource efficiency in national and international strategies, action plans and roadmaps. The thematic of land use is part of these policies, but just as a sub-item. In 2008 the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) postulates a global Land use management in the report “Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use”. This background was the reason for the “Globalands” Project.
Keywords:
land use, sustainability standards, sustainability criteria
Topic:
Biomass Policies, Markets and Sustainability
Subtopic:
Environmental impacts of bioenergy
Event:
21st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
5AV.2.18
Pages:
1888 - 1893
ISBN:
978-88-89407-53-0
Paper DOI:
10.5071/21stEUBCE2013-5AV.2.18
Price:
FREE
