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US agricultural policy, land use change, and biofuels: Are we driving our way to the next dust bowl?

  • Christopher K. Wright

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Abstract

Lark et al (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 044003), analyze recent shifts in US agricultural land use (2008-2012) using newly-available, high-resolution geospatial information, the Cropland Data Layer. Cropland expansion documented by Lark et al suggests the need to reform national agricultural policies in the wake of an emerging, new era of US agriculture characterized by rapid land cover/land use change.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number051001
JournalEnvironmental Research Letters
Volume10
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2015

Bibliographical note

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© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

  • agriculture
  • biofuels
  • environmental policy
  • land use change

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