Concepts in Sustainable Land Use studies how interactions between human
actions and the abiotic environment result in sustainability challenges
and can inform solutions to those challenges. The course addresses how
human actions influence land systems and how these cascade into impacts
on water resources, biodiversity, and climate. The course also goes into
solutions to these challenges. Which actions can we take to moderate
negative effects of land use? How accepted and effective are such
measures? Lectures and tutorials provide a background on drivers,
pressures, state changes, impacts and responses to environmental change
by taking stock of different disciplines, including economy, ecology,
geography, and land science. Students will be introduced in the
theoretical foundation behind sustainable land use, will encounter the
latest scientific insights in the field and will learn practical
analysis skills