TY - JOUR

T1 - The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use

T2 - A global resource footprint perspective

AU - Dorninger, Christian

AU - von Wehrden, Henrik

AU - Krausmann, Fridolin

AU - Bruckner, Martin

AU - Feng, Kuishuang

AU - Hubacek, Klaus

AU - Erb, Karl Heinz

AU - Abson, David J.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

PY - 2021/7/1

Y1 - 2021/7/1

N2 - Land-use activities are increasingly globalized and industrialized. While this contributes to a reduction of pressure on domestic ecosystems in some regions, spillover effects from these processes represent potential obstacles for global sustainable land-use. This contribution scrutinizes the complex global resource nexus of national land-use intensity, international trade of biomass goods, and resource footprints in land-use systems. Via a systematic account of the global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) and input–output modelling, we demonstrate that with growing income countries reduce their reliance on local renewable resources, while simultaneously consuming more biomass goods produced in other countries requiring higher energy and material inputs. The characteristic 'outsourcing' country appropriates 43% of its domestic net primary production, but net-imports a similar amount (64 gigajoules per capita and year) from other countries and requires energy (11 GJ/cap/yr) and material (~400 kg/cap/yr) inputs four to five times higher as the majority of the global population to sustain domestic land-use intensification. This growing societal disconnect from domestic ecological productivity enables a domestic conservation of ecosystems while satisfying growing demand. However, it does not imply a global decoupling of biomass consumption from resource and land requirements.

AB - Land-use activities are increasingly globalized and industrialized. While this contributes to a reduction of pressure on domestic ecosystems in some regions, spillover effects from these processes represent potential obstacles for global sustainable land-use. This contribution scrutinizes the complex global resource nexus of national land-use intensity, international trade of biomass goods, and resource footprints in land-use systems. Via a systematic account of the global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) and input–output modelling, we demonstrate that with growing income countries reduce their reliance on local renewable resources, while simultaneously consuming more biomass goods produced in other countries requiring higher energy and material inputs. The characteristic 'outsourcing' country appropriates 43% of its domestic net primary production, but net-imports a similar amount (64 gigajoules per capita and year) from other countries and requires energy (11 GJ/cap/yr) and material (~400 kg/cap/yr) inputs four to five times higher as the majority of the global population to sustain domestic land-use intensification. This growing societal disconnect from domestic ecological productivity enables a domestic conservation of ecosystems while satisfying growing demand. However, it does not imply a global decoupling of biomass consumption from resource and land requirements.

KW - embodied HANPP

KW - Environmentally-extended multi-regional input–output analysis

KW - International trade

KW - Land-use

KW - Resource nexus

KW - Teleconnections

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - Environmental planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107982946&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102311

DO - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102311

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85107982946

VL - 69

JO - Global Environmental Change

JF - Global Environmental Change

SN - 0959-3780

M1 - 102311

ER -