Changes in food production,often driven by distant demand,have a significant influence on sustainable man agement and use of land and water,and are in turn a driving factor of biodiversity change.While the connection ...Changes in food production,often driven by distant demand,have a significant influence on sustainable man agement and use of land and water,and are in turn a driving factor of biodiversity change.While the connection between land use and demand through value chains is increasingly understood,there is no comprehensive concep tualisation of this relationship.To address this gap,we propose a conceptual framework and use it as a basis for a systematic review to characterise value-chain connection and explore its influence on land-use and-cover change.Our search in June 2022 onWeb of Science and Scopus yielded 198 documents,describing studies completed after the year 2000 that provide information on both value-chain connection and land-use or-cover change.In total,we used 531 distinct cases to assess how frequently particular types of land-use or-cover change and value-chain connections co-occurred,and synthesized findings on their relations.Our findings confirm that 1)market inte gration is associated with intensification;2)land managers with environmental standards more frequently adopt environmentally friendly practices;3)physical and value-chain distances to consumers play a crucial role,with shorter distances associated with environmentally friendly practices and global chains linked to intensification and expansion.Incorporating these characteristics in existing theories of land-system change,would significantly advance understanding of land managers’decision-making,ultimately guiding more environmentally responsible production systems and contributing to global sustainability goals.展开更多
Thermochronometer data offer a powerful tool for quantifying a wide range of geologic processes,such as the deformation and erosion of mountain ranges,topographic evolution,and hydrocarbon maturation.With increasing i...Thermochronometer data offer a powerful tool for quantifying a wide range of geologic processes,such as the deformation and erosion of mountain ranges,topographic evolution,and hydrocarbon maturation.With increasing interest to quantify a wider range of complicated geologic processes,more sophisticated techniques are needed.This paper is concerned with an inverse problem method for interpreting the thermochronometer data quantitatively.Two novel models are proposed to simulate the crustal thermal fields and paleo mountain topography as a function of tectonic and surface processes.One is a heat transport model that describes the change of temperature of rocks;while the other is surface process model which explains the change of mountain topography.New computational algorithms are presented for solving the inverse problem of the coupled system of these two models.The model successfully provides a new tool for reconstructing the kinematic and the topographic history of mountains.展开更多
文摘Changes in food production,often driven by distant demand,have a significant influence on sustainable man agement and use of land and water,and are in turn a driving factor of biodiversity change.While the connection between land use and demand through value chains is increasingly understood,there is no comprehensive concep tualisation of this relationship.To address this gap,we propose a conceptual framework and use it as a basis for a systematic review to characterise value-chain connection and explore its influence on land-use and-cover change.Our search in June 2022 onWeb of Science and Scopus yielded 198 documents,describing studies completed after the year 2000 that provide information on both value-chain connection and land-use or-cover change.In total,we used 531 distinct cases to assess how frequently particular types of land-use or-cover change and value-chain connections co-occurred,and synthesized findings on their relations.Our findings confirm that 1)market inte gration is associated with intensification;2)land managers with environmental standards more frequently adopt environmentally friendly practices;3)physical and value-chain distances to consumers play a crucial role,with shorter distances associated with environmentally friendly practices and global chains linked to intensification and expansion.Incorporating these characteristics in existing theories of land-system change,would significantly advance understanding of land managers’decision-making,ultimately guiding more environmentally responsible production systems and contributing to global sustainability goals.
基金The research of G.Bao,Y.Wang,and Z.Xu was supported in part by the NSF CMG grant EAR-0724527NSF grant EAR-0724656 to T.Ehlers and P.Li.
文摘Thermochronometer data offer a powerful tool for quantifying a wide range of geologic processes,such as the deformation and erosion of mountain ranges,topographic evolution,and hydrocarbon maturation.With increasing interest to quantify a wider range of complicated geologic processes,more sophisticated techniques are needed.This paper is concerned with an inverse problem method for interpreting the thermochronometer data quantitatively.Two novel models are proposed to simulate the crustal thermal fields and paleo mountain topography as a function of tectonic and surface processes.One is a heat transport model that describes the change of temperature of rocks;while the other is surface process model which explains the change of mountain topography.New computational algorithms are presented for solving the inverse problem of the coupled system of these two models.The model successfully provides a new tool for reconstructing the kinematic and the topographic history of mountains.
