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WELCOME TO THE IAMO LAND SYSTEMS GROUP

The overall goal of the Land Systems Group is to advance the understanding of terrestrial social-ecological systems where humans interact with the environment through land use. We analyze the multiple repercussions of the changes in land use on human welfare, food production, carbon dynamics, and biodiversity, as well as the effects of socioecological changes on land use. We approach these issues through quantitative and qualitative assessments alike and combine approaches from social and natural sciences at different spatial scales.

Specifically, we work with spatially explicit methods that include econometric modeling, quantitative geography, crop growth modeling, remote sensing, data mining, and simulation modeling. The current geographic focus of the research group are the countries of the former Soviet Union, China, and Southeast Asia.

 

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29 September 2023

Is ‘made with real labor’  the next trendy label to buy?

In a world where technology and AI resolve critical resource constraints,  agricultural intensification (e.g., land, labor, and other inputs) paves a way to pursue sustainable development goals. When opportunities to absorb displaced labor are...

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25 September 2023

New paper published in Environmental Research Letters

In this article, we mapped the rapid expansion of integrated rice-crawfish farming across all of China using Landsat satellite imagery and discuss the socioecological tradeoffs of this expansion.

Wei, Yanbing; Müller, DanielSun, Zhanli; Lu,...

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26 May 2023

GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY FOR AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, AND OTHER LAND USE (AFOLU) FOR KOSOVO

Daniel Müller and Florian Schierhorn led a greenhouse gas inventory of the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector for Kosovo. The results suggest that the AFOLU-sector will constitute a sink of 407 Gg CO2eq by 2030 if existing...

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