KOSMOS CONFERENCE

4. Limited land - a local to global perspective

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment. Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and natural processes helps to reveal how changes in the land system affect the functioning of the socio-ecological system and the tradeoff these changes may represent.

This session accordingly welcomes contributions to land systems science with a focus on limitations in land-based resources. We specifically invite oral presentations and posters that deepen our insights on

  • land scarcity, either relating to certain land functions or landbased resources, in a specific world region or from a global perspective
  • how land limitations connect across scales or between different regions of the world, including e.g. displacement
  • how to improve modeling of land systems across scales
  • advances in remote sensing for quantifying limitations in land resources

 

 

Program

 

Session 4   Limited land - a local to global perspective (part 1): Transitioning future land use towards sustainability

Thursday

11.00 - 12.30

room 1.103

  Convenors: Patrick Hostert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Ariane de Bremond, Global Land Programme
  Session Chair: Patrick Hostert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
   
  Taking stock of zero deforestation commitments
  Floris Leijten, Unilever
   
   
  Towards coherent policy measures for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  Hermann Lotze-Campen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
   
  Towards revising the planetary boundary for land systems
  Matthias Baumann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
   
   
Session 4   Limited land - a local to global perspective (part 2): Land use impacts on carbon and biodiversity futures

Thursday

15.30 - 17.00

room 1.103

  Convenors: Patrick Hostert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Ariane de Bremond, Global Land Programme
  Session Chair: Ariane de Bremond, Global Land Programme
   
  Towards improved biodiversity scenarios
  Damaris Zurell, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
   
  Mapping global land-based opportunities and challenges to simultaneously achieve biodiversity and food security
  Diana Sietz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
   
  Revision of environmental peacebuilding indicators in post-conflict scenarios. A Conceptual framework for research. The case of Colombia.
  Hector Camilo Morales Munoz, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Resarch (ZALF)
   
Session 4   Limited land - a local to global perspective (part 3): Land use: linking drivers with impacts

Friday

13.30 - 15.00

room 1.103

  Convenors: Patrick Hostert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Ariane de Bremond, Global Land Programme
  Session Chair: Patrick Hoster, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
   
  Implications of current and future dynamics of large-scale land acquisitions and African medium-scale farms
  Niels Debonne, VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
   
  Reconciling food production and biodiversity conservation for food security in Nigeria
  Kashimana Ivo, Universität Hamburg
   
  Separating supply and demand-side drivers of land use change to govern telecouplings
  Nicolas Roux, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
   
  Balancing agriculture and conservation in the South American Gran Chaco
 

Tobias Kuemmerle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

 

Session 4   Posters

Thursday

17.00 - 18.30

Foyer

 

The great whole of nature and the partial politics

Kristine Kjørup Rasmussen, Grøn University of Aalborg

 

A proposal to evaluate the impact of agricultural practices in the Water- Energy – Food Nexus

Michelle Bonatti, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)