Welcome to the Land Use and Global Environment (LUGE) Research Group
at the University of British Columbia
We study linkages between human land use, global environmental change,
and food security
at the University of British Columbia
We study linkages between human land use, global environmental change,
and food security
Sample Publications
Sidhu, B. S., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N., and Kandlikar, M. 2023. How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields? Environmental Research Letters, 18(2), 024008.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb164 Klassen, S., Luna-Perez, E., Bridson, N., Castrejón Violante, L., Wittman, H., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Beyond equivalency: comparing governance and sustainability of three North American organic standards. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(10), 1607-1633. doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2023.2254717 Klassen, S., and Murphy, S., 2020. Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19. World Development, 136, 105104. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105104 Sidhu, B.S., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2020. Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs. World Development, 128, p.104836. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104836 Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L. and Chookolingo, B., 2018. How much of the world's food do smallholders produce? Global food security, 17, pp.64-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2018.05.002 Mehrabi, Z., Ellis, E.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2018. The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), p.409. doi.org/10.14288/1.0376069 Seufert, V., and Ramankutty, N., 2017. Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture. Science Advances, 3(3). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602638 See our full list of publications here
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News
August 25, 2024
A big welcome to our new PhD student, Himanshu Pathak! May 3, 2024 We're happy to welcome Naia to the lab, a visiting PhD student from the University of Colorado Boulder. April 2, 2024 Another successful PhD defence- this time for Ginni. Hooray for Dr. Braich! February 26, 2024 Laura's PhD defence was a raging success! Congratulations Dr. Castrejon Violante! February 8, 2024 Jumi successfully defended her PhD. Three cheers for Dr. Gogoi! December 15, 2023 We're very happy to be welcoming PhD student Farrukh Chishtie to the Luge Lab October, 2023 Navin, Kushank, and Jeff took a trip to Kitchener for the Solutionscapes annual meeting September 21, 2023 Navin authored a perspective piece on the roles of both technological innovation and cultural change in advancing sustainability objectives September 17, 2023 Charlotte joined the LUGE team as lab manager. June 27, 2023 After a fruitful 10 month visit, we said we're sad to bid farewell to Patrick, who is headed back to UCLouvain. Goodbye Patrick! See all news here
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