Striving to feed a population set to reach almost 10 billion people by 2050 in a sustainable
way is high on the research and policy agendas. Further intensification and expansion of …

The number of publications on environmental footprint indicators has been growing rapidly,
but with limited efforts to integrate different footprints into a coherent framework. Such …

Previous research has shown that no country currently meets the basic needs of its residents
at a level of resource use that could be sustainably extended to all people globally. Using …

Biodiversity and ecosystem service losses driven by land-use change are expected to
intensify as a growing and more affluent global population requires more agricultural and …

Globalization has led to an increasing geospatial separation of production and consumption,
and, as a consequence, to an unprecedented displacement of environmental and social …

Demand for food products, often from international trade, has brought agricultural land use
into direct competition with biodiversity. Where these potential conflicts occur and which …

To describe and measure the apparent pressures humanity poses to functioning of the
crucial Earth systems, scientists have long strived to develop comprehensive indicators, of …

Global land systems are increasingly shaped by international trade of agricultural products.
An increasing number of studies have quantified the implications of agricultural trade for …

National and local governments need to step up efforts to effectively implement the post‐
2020 global biodiversity framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity to halt and …

The growth of global carbon emissions is largely driven by coal-burning in China. China has
consumed approximately half of global coal; as such, limiting its coal demand is important …