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Chad Monfreda
Researcher at Arizona State University
Publications - 31
Citations - 23674
Chad Monfreda is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecological footprint & Land use. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 31 publications receiving 20699 citations. Previous affiliations of Chad Monfreda include University of Wisconsin-Madison & Princeton University.
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Global Consequences of Land Use
Jonathan A. Foley,Ruth DeFries,Gregory P. Asner,Carol C. Barford,Gordon B. Bonan,Stephen R. Carpenter,F. Stuart Chapin,Michael T. Coe,Michael T. Coe,Gretchen C. Daily,Holly K. Gibbs,Joseph H. Helkowski,Tracey Holloway,Erica A. Howard,Christopher J. Kucharik,Chad Monfreda,Jonathan A. Patz,I. Colin Prentice,Navin Ramankutty,Peter K. Snyder +19 more
TL;DR: Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, along with considerable losses of biodiversity.
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Solutions for a cultivated planet
Jonathan A. Foley,Navin Ramankutty,Kate A. Brauman,E. S. Cassidy,James S. Gerber,M. Johnston,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Christine S. O’Connell,Deepak K. Ray,Paul C. West,Christian Balzer,Elena M. Bennett,Stephen R. Carpenter,Jason Hill,Chad Monfreda,Stephen Polasky,Johan Rockström,John Sheehan,Stefan Siebert,David Tilman,David P. M. Zaks +20 more
TL;DR: It is shown that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste, which could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
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Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000
TL;DR: In the year 2000, the United Nations reported that 28.6 million km 2 of cropland (12% of the Earth's ice-free land surface) and 28.0 (90% confidence range of 23.6-30.0) million km2 of pasture (22%) were converted to pasture as mentioned in this paper.
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Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present land use data sets created by combining national, state, and county level census statistics with a recently updated global data set of croplands on a 5 min by 5 min (∼10 km by 10 km) latitude-longitude grid.
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Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Mathis Wackernagel,Niels Schulz,Diana Deumling,Alejandro Callejas Linares,Martin Jenkins,Valerie Kapos,Chad Monfreda,Jonathan Loh,Norman Myers,Richard B. Norgaard,Jørgen Randers +10 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 1980s and humanity's load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999.