Simone Gingrich

TL;DR: A comprehensive assessment of global HANPP based on vegetation modeling, agricultural and forestry statistics, and geographical information systems data on land use, land cover, and soil degradation that localizes human impact on ecosystems suggests large-scale schemes to substitute biomass for fossil fuels should be viewed cautiously.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an assessment of the global use of materials since the beginning of the 20th century based on the conceptual and methodological principles of material flow accounting (MFA).

TL;DR: It is found that although human population has grown fourfold and economic output 17-fold, global HANPP has only doubled, and this result calls for caution in refocusing the energy economy on land-based resources and for strategies that foster the continuation of increases in land-use efficiency without excessively increasing ecological costs of intensification.

TL;DR: It is shown, using state-of-the-art datasets, that vegetation currently stores around 450 petagrams of carbon, in the hypothetical absence of land use, which implies that trade-offs exist between conserving carbon stocks on managed land and raising the contribution of biomass to raw material and energy supply for the mitigation of climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive assessment of global socioeconomic biomass harvest, use and trade for the year 2000 is presented, where the authors developed country-level livestock balances and a consistent set of factors to estimate flows of used biomass not covered by international statistics (eg grazed biomass, crop residues) and indirect flows (i.e., biomass destroyed during harvest but not used).