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DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.207 |
To what extent has sustainable intensification in England been achieved? | |
McKay, David I. Armstrong1; Dearing, John A.1; Dyke, James G.1; Poppy, Guy M.2; Firbank, Les G.3 | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0048-9697 |
EISSN | 1879-1026 |
卷号 | 648页码:1560-1569 |
英文摘要 | Agricultural intensification has significantly increased yields and fed growing populations across the planet, but has also led to considerable environmental degradation. In response an alternative process of 'Sustainable Intensification' (SI), whereby food production increases while environmental impacts are reduced, has been advocated as necessary, if not sufficient, for delivering food and environmental security. However, the extent to which SI has begun, the main drivers of SI, and the degree to which degradation is simply 'offshored' are uncertain. In this study we assess agroecosystem services in England and two contrasting sub-regions, majority-arable Eastern England and majority-pastoral South-Western England, since 1950 by analysing ecosystem service metrics and developing a simple system dynamics model. We find that rapid agricultural intensification drove significant environmental degradation in England in the early 1980s, but that most ecosystem services except farmland biodiversity began to recover after 2000, primarily due to reduced livestock and fertiliser usage decoupling from high yields. This partially follows the trajectory of an Environmental Kuznets Curve, with yields and GDP growth decoupling from environmental degradation above similar to pound 17,000 per capita per annum. Together, these trends suggest that SI has begun in England. However, the lack of recovery in farmland biodiversity, and the reduction in UK food self-sufficiency resulting in some agricultural impacts being 'offshored', represent major negative trade-offs. Maintaining yields and restoring biodiversity while also addressing climate change, offshored degradation, and post-Brexit subsidy changes will require significant further SI in the future. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源期刊 | SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/92119 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Southampton, Geog & Environm, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England; 2.Univ Southampton, Ctr Biol Sci, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England; 3.Univ Leeds, Sch Biol, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | McKay, David I. Armstrong,Dearing, John A.,Dyke, James G.,et al. To what extent has sustainable intensification in England been achieved?[J],2019,648:1560-1569. |
APA | McKay, David I. Armstrong,Dearing, John A.,Dyke, James G.,Poppy, Guy M.,&Firbank, Les G..(2019).To what extent has sustainable intensification in England been achieved?.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,648,1560-1569. |
MLA | McKay, David I. Armstrong,et al."To what extent has sustainable intensification in England been achieved?".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 648(2019):1560-1569. |
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