Thread by @ZigaMalek

Happy to share our #openaccess paper on why and how we change the land use in @IOPenvironment! Together with @peterverburg11 @JvVliet @VU_IVM and others from @GlobalLandP, we analysed decision-making behind land use change (thread)
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9…

We identified 758 different decision-makers from 315 peer-reviewed papers all around the world. Most of the papers come from the domains of #environmentalscience, #agriculture and #geography (but also #economics, #conservation and #forestry!)

For each of these studies, we were able to identify the objectives for land use change, the attitudes of the people (e.g. towards the environment), the ability of the people (e.g. land size, wealth). Survival and livelihood and economic objectives dominate

Our main result is the classification of different types of decision-makers. We identified 6 distinct types, that also change the land use differently. For example, the survivalist can be associated with deforestation, and the professional intensifier with intensification.

In short, we have shown that the decisions behind land use change are much more diverse and complex, and cannot be simplified as only following economic objectives. For more information, check our paper!

Now also with a video abstract!