Pressure on land resources has increased during recent years despite international goals to improve their management. The fourth Global Environment Outlook (UNEP 2007) highlighted the unprecedented land-use changes created by a burgeoning population, economic development and global markets. The outcome of those drivers continues to cause resource depletion and ecosystem degradation.

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Hunsberger, C., & Evans, T. P. (2012). Land. In Fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) : Report of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/39391