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Top net trade displacements of land use

Figure Created 06 Jun 2019 Published 02 Sep 2019 Last modified 11 Jun 2019

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Topics: Climate change adaptation Biodiversity — Ecosystems Land use

Top ten net displacements of land use globally (exports minus imports), with the arrows indicating the direction of product flow. For this trade analysis, the countries of the world were aggregated into 11 regions, color coded on the map. Units are in million gha per year.

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Methodology:: The footprint covers cropland, pastures, built-up land, forest land and marine ecological footprint, all accounted for as ecological footprint. However, the displacements are dervide through a hybrid environmentally-extended multi-regional input-output analysis. Details can be found in the source document: Weinzettel, J., Hertwich, E.G., Peters, G.P., Steen-Olsen, K., Galli, A., 2013. Affluence drives the global displacement of land use. Global Environmental Change 23, 433-438.
Units:: million global hectars per year
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Elsevier.
Owners:: Elsevier
Processors:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Figure type:: Map