The originality of this book is to review and characterize the current body of scientific publications that describe the complete causal sequence from reorganization of agricultural production to land use changes (LUC) and the resulting environmental impacts. The chapters examine both the range of territorial reorganizations leading to LUC and the range of associated environmental impacts considered in the literature, including GHG emissions, atmospheric pollution, biodiversity impacts, water resources, and soil quality.
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Introduction: Environmental impact of land-use change in agricultural systems: a critical review.- Chapter 1: An innovative methodological framework for analyzing scientific research on land-use change and associated environmental impacts.- Chapter 2: Textual analysis of published research articles on the environmental impacts of land-use change.- Chapter 3: The environmental impacts of non-food biomass production through land-use changes: scope, foci and methodology of current research.- Chapter 4: Review of the impacts on soils of land-use changes induced by non-food biomass production.- Chapter 5: Review of the impacts on water of land-use changes related to non-food biomass production.- Chapter 6: Review of the impacts on greenhouse gas emissions of land-use changes induced by non-food biomass production.- Chapter 7: Review of the impacts on air quality and human health of land-use changes induced by non-food biomass production.- Chapter 8: Review of the impacts on biodiversityof land-use changes induced by non-food biomass production.- Chapter 9: Review of the impacts on nonrenewable resources of land-use changes induced by non-food biomass production.- 10: Mapping the evidence on the environmental impacts of land-use change for non-food biomass production.