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Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
While the scientific community documents environmental degradation and develops scenarios to identify the operational margins of system Earth, less attention is given to how decisions are made that steer the s...
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Emerging Research Needs and Policy Priorities for Advancing Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development
As research and policies around securing tenure for people across the world grows, we have a deeper understanding of what works and what does not. Here, we draw attention to contemporary evidence gaps that con...
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Property Rights, Tenure Form, and Tenure Security
Land tenure security is often inconsistently defined, conceptualized, and measured. This can create confusion in research and practice. Here, we provide a summary of the differences between property rights, te...
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Who Defines Land Tenure Security? De Jure and De Facto Institutions
Many land tenure situations are not necessarily defined and adjudicated by governments, that is, at a statutory level. In some cases, these may be defined by a local community and be upheld and resolved locall...
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Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Land tenure security is increasingly recognized as a foundational element for advancing global sustainable development agendas, but questions remain about how it affects human well-being and environmental outc...
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Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science
The ecosystem service (ES) community aspires to illuminate how nature contributes to human well-being, and thereby elevate consideration of nature in decision making. So far, however, policy impact of ES resea...
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Participatory Modeling of Water Vulnerability in Remote Alaskan Households Using Causal Loop Diagrams
Despite perceptions of high water availability, adequate access to sufficient water resources remains a major challenge in Alaska. This paper uses a participatory modeling approach to investigate household wat...
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An evaluation of air quality, home heating and well-being under Bei**g’s programme to eliminate household coal use
To mitigate health and environmental effects from coal-based home heating, the Bei**g Municipality has implemented a programme in 3,700 villages that subsidizes electric heat pumps and electricity, and bans c...
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Open AccessMeta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects
Land use science has traditionally used case-study approaches for in-depth investigation of land use change processes and impacts. Meta-studies synthesize findings across case-study evidence to identify genera...
