Land Use Change, Forestry and Greenhouse Gas Removal
For more than 30 years LEEP researchers have been examining the relationships between land use and the variety of natural capital and ecosystem service related benefits that arise from land use change. Within this a consistent theme has been how land use responds to climate change and can either remove or add to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
A particular focus has been given to the co-benefits and trade-offs that occur when we switch land use from agriculture to the variety of forest and multiple landscapes described by the term 'treescapes'. Equally importantly LEEP looks not just at the consequences of moving to alternative land uses, but the drivers of change which deliver those new landscapes; rejecting the common literature which just focuses upon the wonderful advantages of different futures while failing to tackle to equally important issue of how those future can be delivered.
