Technology Spillovers and Land Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Global Agriculture

Technology Spillovers and Land Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Global Agriculture

The existing evidence for the effects of agricultural technological change on cropland use is inadequate to clarify the polarized views on whether encouraging technological progress would slow down the expansion of croplands into forests. This article seeks to inform these views by developing and estimating a model that links the changes in a country’s cropland to the changes in both domestic a...

Disease emergence from global climate and land use change.

Climate change and land use change can affect multiple infectious diseases of humans, acting either independently or synergistically. Expanded efforts in empiric and future scenario-based risk assessment are required to anticipate problems. Moreover, the many health impacts of climate and land use change must be examined in the context of the myriad other environmental and behavioral determinan...

Global change pressures on soils from land use and management.

Soils are subject to varying degrees of direct or indirect human disturbance, constituting a major global change driver. Factoring out natural from direct and indirect human influence is not always straightforward, but some human activities have clear impacts. These include land-use change, land management and land degradation (erosion, compaction, sealing and salinization). The intensity of la...

Land Cover, Land Use and the Global Change

Spillovers from Universities: Evidence from the Land-Grant Program