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1. Library Resource

   

   Exploring the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation for policy implications

   Land Use Policy Volume 76

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   juillet, 2018

   Chine, Fédération de Russie, États-Unis d'Amérique

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   utilisation des terres

   changement dans l'usage des terrres

   recherche

   Cash crops have kept expanding at an accelerating rate across the globe during the last decades. It therefore requires elaborate efforts to examine the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation. With a case of the Hangzhou region in subtropical China, this paper investigated the dynamic patterns of four cash crop types (tea, fruit, mulberry and nursery) at town level by using aerial photos; and then quantified the subsequent socioeconomic and ecological consequences using spatial regression.

2. Library Resource

   

   The agricultural, environmental and socio-political repercussions of Brazil's land governance system

   Land Use Policy Volume 36

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   janvier, 2014

   Brésil

   Terre et investissements

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   environnement

   gouvernance foncière

   productivité des terres

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   Although many contemporary studies of agriculture associate larger properties with higher relative productivity, this assumption has limited relevancy for the analysis of situations in which property owners profit more from large-scale property accumulation itself rather than any superiority in exploitation opportunities offered by increased size. In Brazil, the efficiency-of-scale paradigm has been used to criticize peasant agriculture as unproductive and hide contradictions deriving from land concentration.

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   Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions

   Land Use Policy Volume 57

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   novembre, 2016

   Global

   Restauration des paysages forestiers

   Régimes forestiers

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   développement

   foresterie

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   The relationship between forests and people is of substantial interest to peoples and agencies that govern and use them, private sector actors that seek to manage and profit from them, NGOs who support and implement conservation and development projects, and researchers who study these relationships and others. The term ⿿forest-dependent people⿿ is widely used to describe human populations that gain some form of benefits from forests.

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   Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation

   Land Use Policy Volume 84

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   mai, 2019

   Aruba, Bolivie, Brésil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Trinité-et-Tobago, États-Unis d'Amérique, Venezuela

   Restauration des paysages forestiers

   Régimes forestiers

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   plan d'aménagement forestier

   foresterie

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   In the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic pressures in growing cities, it is rational for managers to consider multiple approaches for securing water availability. One often disregarded option is the promotion of reforestation in source regions supplying important quantities of atmospheric moisture transported over long distances through aerial rivers, affecting water resources of a city via precipitation and runoff (‘smart reforestation’). Here we present a case demonstrating smart reforestation’s potential as a water management option.

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   Green niche actors navigating an opaque opportunity context: Prospects for a sustainable transformation of Ethiopian agriculture

   Land Use Policy Volume 71

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   février, 2018

   Éthiopie

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   agriculture

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   Identifying trajectories of agricultural development that enable substantial increases in food production is of prime importance for food security and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa in general, and Ethiopia in particular. To ensure long-term welfare for people and landscapes, it is imperative that such agricultural transformations sustain and enhance the natural resource base upon which agriculture depends.

6. Library Resource

   

   Rethinking “development”: Land dispossession for the Rampal power plant in Bangladesh

   Land Use Policy Volume 94

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   mai, 2020

   Bangladesh

   Conflits liés à la terre

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   développement

   expropriation

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the salinity-intruded southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. Changes in land control for the construction of the Rampal power plant and similar projects have intensified decades of struggles over rights and access to land.

7. Library Resource

   

   The impacts of Acacia decurrens plantations on livelihoods in rural Ethiopia

   Land Use Policy Volume 100

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   janvier, 2021

   Afrique sub-saharienne

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   This study was undertaken to examine local perceptions of the impacts of small-scale tree plantations, notably of Acacia decurrens (J.C. Wendl.) Willd., in Ethiopia’s Upper Blue Nile Basin. A particular focus of our study was on the different dimensions of livelihood sustainability centering on economic, social, human, physical, and natural capital. The unprecedented expansion of small-scale tree plantations in degraded agricultural land can be attributed to farmers’ efforts to overcome the problems of limited income options and land degradation.

8. Library Resource

   

   Roots of inequity: How the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices

   Land Use Policy Volume 50

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   janvier, 2016

   Kenya

   Droits fonciers collectifs

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   tenure foncière

   systèmes de tenure

   utilisation des terres

   recherche

   The extent to which REDD+ initiatives should be a mechanism to address poverty and provide other co-benefits apart from carbon storage, is hotly debated. Here, we examine the benefit distribution policy and practice of a prominent REDD+ project in Kenya with the aim of understanding the extent to which it addresses equity.

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   Introducing nature-based solutions into urban policy – facts and gaps. Case study of Poznań

   Land Use Policy Volume 85

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   juin, 2019

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Régime urbain

   environnement

   utilisation des terres

   aménagement du territoire

   recherche

   Gestion foncière durable

   zone urbaine

   aménagement urbain

   Cities often don’t appreciate the benefits of green infrastructure (GI) enough. To recognise the extent to which green infrastructure and nature-based solutions (NbS) are present in the urban policy, we conducted a review of planning, strategic and programming documents of Poznań City as a Case Study.

10. Library Resource

    

    Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

    Land Use Policy Volume 48

    Publication évaluée par des pairs

    novembre, 2015

    Norvège

    Terres, changement climatique et environnement

    utilisation des terres

    recherche

    échelle (cartographie)

    Land use and management influence the magnitude of soil loss. Among the different soil erosion risk factors, the cover-management factor (C-factor) is the one that policy makers and farmers can most readily influence in order to help reduce soil loss rates. The present study proposes a methodology for estimating the C-factor in the European Union (EU), using pan-European datasets (such as CORINE Land Cover), biophysical attributes derived from remote sensing, and statistical data on agricultural crops and practices.