Bad news/good news: Land-use change in the era of globalization
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 16:00
in Earth & Climate
A central challenge facing the planet is how to preserve forests while providing enough food to feed the world's population. It's really a "bad news/good news" story, says Eric Lambin, professor of environmental Earth system science and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; and professor of geography at the University of Louvain.