Land use

Aerial view of clear-cut forest with felled trees next to freestanding trees

SEI Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Tool

Tool / The AFOLU Tool assists with developing medium- and long-term greenhouse gas non-energy emission scenarios for agriculture, forestry and other land uses.

About Land use, Mitigation, Planning and modelling and Public policy

A close-up shot of a large heap of mustard-yellow soybeans. The background is a wide landscape dominated by open fields.

Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain

Journal article / Due to increasingly hybrid approaches in sustainability governance, researchers will need to attend to both chain and out-of-chain actors in their assessments.

7 October 2025 / About Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use and Sustainable Development Goals

Complementary perspectives and metrics are essential to end deforestation

Journal article / By proposing a unified framework for classifying deforestation metrics, this article aims to provide clarity and consistency in sustainability reporting.

6 October 2025 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Half-body details of a man sitting in his wheelchair climbing up a curb that is not wheelchair accessible.

Visual storytelling to rethink spatial justice through equity on the move

Project / Using a visual storytelling approach, this project documents everyday mobility practices and infrastructure use, revealing local issues.

2025 - 2026 / About Cities, Land use and Wellbeing

A man stands on heather moorland with his back to the camera. Directly in front of him, parts of the ground billow smoke as he administers a controlled burn of the heather for land management.

Prescribed heather burning on peatlands: a review of ten key claims made about heather management impacts and implications for future UK policy

Journal article / A total ban on controlled burning is unproductive: alternative heather management planning should be site-specific and include a robust comparison with burning.

29 September 2025 / About Climate services, Land use and Public policy

Modeling of carbon sequestration with land use and land cover change in forest dominant hill district of Manipur Northeast India using InVEST

Journal article / This study aims to enhance the understanding of the relationship between LULC changes and carbon storage in Northeast India.

29 September 2025 / About Land use and Mitigation

Knowledge gaps about mining impacts on Sami lands: a call for epistemic justice in European minerals extraction

Journal article / This article examines the gap between environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for new mines in Sweden and actual impacts experienced by the Indigenous Sámi.

5 September 2025 / About Fossil fuels, Land use, Pollution and Wellbeing

People walking through a forest on Indigenous Sámi land observing wildfire impacts

Including Indigenous knowledge in land use governance and decision-making

Journal article / This article examines challenges and opportunities in integrating Indigenous knowledge into land use governance and environmental decision-making.

2 September 2025 / About Land use and Public policy

Cows drinking water in Pantanal, South America.

EU and China at risk from water scarcity via imports of Brazil beef and soy

Feature / Trase research reveals the colossal amount of water used to produce soy and beef in Brazil, and recommends ways to address water scarcity.

26 August 2025 / About Forests, Land use, Supply chains and Water resources