Used Planet: A Global History
Used Planet: A Global History
In Used Planet: A Global History, published in PNAS in 2013, we synthesized scientific evidence and theory on the emergence, history, and future of land use as a process transforming the Earth System. In the paper, we contrast two spatially explicit global reconstructions of land-use history, HYDE 3.1 (Klein Goldewijk et al, 2011) and KK10 (Kaplan et al, 2011), showing that reconstructions that include land-use intensification (KK10) produce more plausible assessments of our planet’s history, with a biosphere and climate long ago transformed by people
References
Kaplan, JO, KM Krumhardt, EC Ellis, WF Ruddiman, C Lemmen, and K Klein Goldewijk. 2011. Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change. The Holocene 21:775-791.
Klein Goldewijk, K, A Beusen, G van Drecht, and M de Vos. 2011. The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human induced global land use change over the past 12,000 years. Global Ecology & Biogeography 20:73-86.
