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Land-use trends and environmental governance policies in Brazil: paths forward for sustainability.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: Miccolis, A. & Andrade, R. M. T. de & Pacheco, P.

Content type: Bulletin

Historically, the policy framework in Brazil has played a decisive role in shaping land use and changes in the rural landscape. Over the last three de...

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Land degradation in South Africa: justice and climate change in tension.

Published online: 28 Oct 2021

Authors: Mani, S. & Osborne, C. P. & Cleaver, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Land degradation is a global problem impacting biodiversity and livelihoods, with profound effects on resource-based livelihoods. As such, it impedes ...

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The impacts of climate change on cropland allocation, crop production, output prices and social welfare in Israel: a structural econometric framework.

Published online: 11 Apr 2019

Authors: Kan, I. & Reznik, A. & Kimhi, A. & Kaminski, J.

Content type: Bulletin

This paper combines a structural estimation of vegetative-agriculture supply, based on a farmland-allocation model, with a market-level partial equili...

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Reviving conservation values in agro-commodity landscapes: the case of Gunung Tarak Landscape, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Published online: 17 Jul 2019

Authors: Widayati, A. & Wijaya, K. & Purwanto, E. & Zagt, R.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This Info Brief summarizes the application of High Conservation Value (HCV) at the landscape level, which, together with the assessment of land-use/la...

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Enhancing understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality in mountain regions.

Published online: 02 Oct 2023

Authors: Simion, H. & Giombini, V. & Tasser, E. & Marsoner, T. & Vigl, L. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Mountain landscapes that are managed to provide several ecosystem services (ES) have the potential to sustain high levels of biodiversity while also m...

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Analyzing multilevel governance in Vietnam: lessons for REDD+ from the study of land-use change and benefit sharing in Nghe An and Dien Bien provinces.

Published online: 17 May 2017

Authors: Yang, A. & Nguyen Dinh Tien & Vu Tan Phuong & Le Quang Trung & Pham Thu Thuy & Larson, A. M. & Ashwin Ravikumar

Content type: Bulletin

Who makes land-use decisions, how are those decisions made, and who influences whom, how and why? This working paper is part of a series based on rese...

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Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes.

Published online: 12 Apr 2017

Authors: Law, E. A. & Bryan, B. A. & Meijaard, E. & Mallawaarachchi, T. & Struebig, M. J. & Watts, M. E. & Wilson, K. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tropical forest landscapes face competing demands for conserving biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services and accommodating production systems such...

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Using ants as bioindicators in land management: simplifying assessment of ant community responses.

Published online: 17 Jul 2002

Authors: Andersen, A. N. & Hoffmann, B. D. & Müller, W. J. & Griffiths, A. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The indicator qualities of terrestrial invertebrates are widely recognized in the context of detecting ecological change associated with human land us...

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Unpacking land degradation and the thorny issue of woody plant encroachment in South Africa.

Published online: 13 Oct 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Mani, S. & Osborne, C. P. & Cleaver, F.

Content type: Blog

In this work, the situation of land degradation in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa was analysed by adapting a natural resource governance fram...

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An ecological survey of land use and soil erosion in the West Pakistan and Azad Kashmir catchment of the River Jhelum.

Published online: 22 May 1970

Authors: Mcvean, D. N. & Robertson, V. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

With the aid of aerial photographs, a survey of the geology, soils, vegetation and land use and an assessment of land capability were made. Erosion is...

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