GLP in January: TEDxGeneva talk, prehistoric land use recap, and something exciting coming Feb. 8!

Dear colleague,

We are off to a great start for 2022, with an excellent webinar earlier this month in which our presenter/authors, GLP SSC discussants and participants explored how prehistoric land use shaped most of terrestrial nature and its relevance for land management today. Check it out! See below for a new blog post, TEDxGeneva talk, and papers to enjoy as well.

We have a very exciting month ahead, too, with the release of a new product coming on February 8. Follow us on Twitter @GlobalLandP to catch it when it drops!

We are working hard to secure a home for our IPO and look forward to sharing more on those developments as soon as we can.

As always, I am reminded that GLP couldn’t do what we do without all of you! Together as a community of land system scientists, we are working towards sustainable and equitable solutions to our most urgent global challenges.

Thank you! And wishing you all the best for 2022!
Ariane de Bremond, Executive Officer

We would like to extend a special welcome to the following 46 new GLP Members:

Xindong He, Shyam Devabhaktuni, Alena Schmidt, NK Prasana, Nirmal Mani Dahal, David Wuepper, Mark Moritz, Shreya Some, Cara Steger, Bashar Malkawi, Le Yu, Danilo Urzedo, Marieke Sassen, Tamás Tari, Jane Southworth, Anderson Amaral, Harrison Nnoko, Carlos Morera, Veronica Pineiro, Rachel Carmenta, James Reed, Gerbrand Koren, Carola Paul, Frank Mintah, Fridah Nyakundi, Amit Kumar Bundela, Sophie de Bruin, Rex Steward, Van Thi Hai Nguyen, Iain McKechnie, Jennifer Lipton, Shurong Zhuang, Tobias Plankensteiner, Vincent Gauci, Silvia Sofia Mardero Jimenez, Riccardo Scalenghe, Muhammad Fahim, Taejin Park, Emily Minor, Sadys del Carmen González Perez, Fan Yang, Simone Markoff, Andrea Zerboni, Andres Larrea, Arman Bajracharya, and Anne Trainor.

To learn more about them or any of our other 2,000+ members, please visit our Find a Scientist directory.

NEWS

Retiring farmlands to put carbon back where it belongs

Watch a poetic TEDxGeneva talk in which Stephen Bell brings historical insights of global farmland abandonment, zooms in to studying this process in Spain, and argues about the importance of changing the focus from post-factum abandonment to proactive retirement of lands.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Blog Post: Livelihoods, markets and conservation

A new blog post by Joel Persson summarizes a recently published article based on in-depth mixed method research in a national park in northern Laos. The paper sets out the livelihood implications of increasing conservation interventions coupled with accelerating marketization of resident livelihoods. The authors draw out the major livelihood strategies pursued by residents and highlight the inequitably distributed costs and benefits of conservation actions at the village sites.

EVENT RECAP: Prehistoric land use reshaped most of terrestrial nature - does that matter now?

On January 19th more than 300 people attended our webinar on how human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human use of land has reshaped global patterns of biodiversity, ecosystems, landscapes, and climate. The webinar recording and presenters' slides are now available on our website.

Members in the News

Sietz selected as lead author of IPBES Nexus assessment

Diana Sietz has been selected to be a lead author of the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (Nexus assessment) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

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Publications

Featured Publications

Strategic land-use planning instruments in tropical regions: state of the art and future research
A new paper in the Journal of Land Use Science addresses strategic land-use planning instruments in land-use planning in tropical, low-income regions, and further details the extent to which the instruments' characteristics support land governance. Read more

Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa
In a new paper in Ambio, the authors use firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from transnational agriculture and forestry investments in Southern and Eastern Africa to distinguish four types of locations preferred by investors with varied skillsets and market reach (i.e., track record), across gradients of resource frontiers and agglomeration economies. They find that investors with extensive track records are more likely to expand the land use frontier, but likely to better survive the high transaction costs of the pre-commercial frontier, and point to the risks of promoting overly simplistic narratives. Read more

Other Publications

The implications of remittances for agricultural land use and fuelwood collection: Evidence from the remaining forested landscapes in the Philippines (Environmental Research Letters)

Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador (Biological Conservation)

The impact of conflict-driven cropland abandonment on food insecurity in South Sudan revealed using satellite remote sensing (Nature Food)

Calls

Call for papers: The Governance of Biodiversity Recovery

Voices for Science training program from AGU accepting applications for 2022-2023 cohort

Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership call for applications now open

Open call for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering

Events

DSSAT 2022 - Assessing Crop Production, Water and Nutrient Management, Climatic Risk and Environmental Sustainability with Simulation Models, 16-21 May

LANDac Annual International Conference 2022, 29 June

Pathways Europe 2022: Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conference "Sharing Landscapes", 9-12 October

2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance, 21-23 October

Jobs

Assistant Professor in Ecosystem Ecology – Land System Scientist, Colorado State University, Deadline: 30 January

Associate Senior Lecturers in Geographies of Sustainability, Social Science of Climate Change, and Social Science of Sustainability, Lund University, Deadline: 31 January

Postdoc 'Transformation Transformation toward resilient ecosystems: bridging natural and social sciences (TREBRIDGE)’, Eawag, Deadline: 28 February

Postdocs: Counting nature's contributions to people across Canada, Nature Conservancy of Canada and Canadian universities, Deadline: 18 February

This is only a small sampling of jobs we post. Be sure to check our Twitter feed @GlobalLandP for additional opportunities!

We welcome news, events and job postings from the GLP community. The deadline for content to appear in our next issue is 18 February. Please submit items for consideration to Communications Manager Lauren Hertel.

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