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Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions.

Published online: 10 Sep 2024

Authors: Wardropper, C. B. & Graves, R. A. & Brandt, J. & Burnham, M. & Carter, N. & Hale, R. L. & Hillis, V. & Williamson, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Many of the world's iconic, endangered and endemic species rely on large, contiguous landscapes for their survival. In the US West, working ranches ar...

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Under the canopy: gender and forests in Amazonia.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: Schmink, M. & Gómez-García, M. A.

Content type: Bulletin

Despite the importance of forests for global processes and the tradition of forest management by local Amazonian peoples, there is not much available ...

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A policy note on agricultural cooperatives in Africa.

Published online: 24 Aug 2016

Authors: Francesconi, N. & Cook, M. & Livingston, K.

Content type: Bulletin

This note demonstrates the validity and applicability of the "Cooperative Life Cycle Framework," developed by the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Le...

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Study of good practices in the governance of land tenure in Guatemala.

Published online: 11 Apr 2018

Authors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Content type: Miscellaneous

This document contains the experiences with land tenure governance in different Guatemalan communities: the formalization of land rights in the commun...

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Derivation of the analytical framework.

Published online: 18 Mar 2015

Authors: Katila, P. & Galloway, G. & Jong, W. de & Pacheco, P. & Mery, G.

Content type: Bulletin article

This chapter presents a brief summary of the literature of the analytical framework that address natural resource management. Various concepts, models...

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Climate change, out-migration and agrarian stress: the potential for upscaling small-scale water storage in Nepal.

Published online: 10 Dec 2014

Authors: Sugden, F. & Lata Shrestha & Bharati, L. & Pabitra Gurung & Laxmi Maharjan & Janmaat, J. & Price, J. I. & Sherpa, T. Y. C. & Utsav Bhattarai & Shishir Koirala & Basu Timilsina

Content type: Bulletin

Climate change could have a critical impact on agriculture in Nepal due to changes in the variability of water availability and associated uncertainty...

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Community-based forest management in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Published online: 18 Mar 2015

Authors: Huelsz, J. A. S. & Negreros-Castillo, P.

Content type: Bulletin article

The Mexican model of community forestry is often touted as an example whereby greater community control enhances both conservation and local livelihoo...

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'Traditional peoples' and the struggle for inclusive land governance in Brazil.

Published online: 07 Sep 2016

Authors: Shankland, A. & Sullivan, Z. & Dayrell, C. A. & Alvarenga, A. C. & Rocha, D. F. B.

Content type: Bulletin

In recent decades, Brazil has attracted international interest both for the intensity of its land conflicts and for the extent of its land governance ...

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Hurricane Sandy impacts on coastal wetland resilience.

Published online: 04 Sep 2019

Authors: Cahoon, D. R. & Olker, J. H. & Yeates, A. G. & Guntenspergen, G. R. & Grace, J. B. & Adamowicz, S. C. & Anisfeld, S. C. & Baldwin, A. H. & Barrett, N. & Beckett, L. & Benzecry, A. & Blum, L. K. & Burdick, D. M. & Crouch, W. & Ekberg, M. C. & Fernald, S. & Grimes, K. W. & Grzyb, J. & Hartig, E. K. & Kreeger, D. A. & Larson, M. & Lerberg, S. & Lynch, J. C. & Maher, N. & Maxwell-Doyle, M. & Mitchell, L. R. (et al)

Content type: Bulletin

The goal of this research was to evaluate the impacts of Hurricane Sandy on surface elevation trends in estuarine marshes located across the northeast...

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Landscape pivot points and responses to water balance in national parks of the southwest US.

Published online: 28 Aug 2019

Authors: Thoma, D. P. & Munson, S. M. & Witwicki, D. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A recent drying trend that is expected to continue in the southwestern US underscores the need for site-specific and near real-time understanding of v...

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