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Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection
The subnational implementation of forest protection legislation is an important aspect of forest governance. In this article, I explore how competing...
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Effect of social protection programmes on household food security: a case of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in the Tolon District of Ghana
Cash transfer programmes such as Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) have been identified as a strategy for poverty reduction among...
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Farmland Use Transition in China
Farmland is the key resource for sustaining rural development and agricultural production. Farmland use morphology is closely related to rural...
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Coupling Analysis of Farmland and Rural Housing Land Transitions in China
Farmland and rural housing land are the two major land-use types closely related to human livelihood and production activities. It is well known that...
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Farm households’ adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: empirical evidence from Seychelles
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can improve the resilience of farming systems in the face of climate-related shocks, providing a win–win for food...
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Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia
We identify hotspots of biocultural value on the national level in Slovakia in order: (1) to define indicators for the identification and evaluation...
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Resettlement and its impacts on land use land cover change in Nansebo district, Ethiopia
Understanding the land use land cover dynamics and its drivers is essential to generate evidences for making appropriate interventions to safeguard...
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Geospatially-Based Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics Detection, Central Ethiopian Rift Valley
Land use and land cover (LULC) is a major concern of global environmental change, particularly the case, in develo** countries. In the Central...
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A City Founded on the Automobile Industry and Agriculture: Is Cooperation Between Agriculture and Industry Possible?
This chapter focuses on two examples. The first case study is that of the Toyota Agricultural Life Association. In this case study, people whose...
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The Buqeiϲa Plateau of the Judean Desert in the Southern Levant During the Seventh to Early Sixth Centuries BCE: Iron Age Run-off Farmland or a Pastoralist Rangeland?
Previous archaeological studies of Iron Age IIC/III settlements in the Buqeiϲa plateau, situated in the north-eastern part of the Judean Desert,...
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An Evaluation of Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy—The Link Policy: A Case Study from Ezhou City, Hubei Province
Economic reform in China has resulted in rapid urbanisation over the past three decades, changing the urban and rural landscape dramatically. A large...
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Farmland Preservation and Rural Development in Canada
Farmland preservation in Canada reflects a diverse variety of strategies ranging from the regulatory to community based approaches that build...
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Value Assessment of Nature-Based Solution (NbS)
In September 2021, CCICED published a Special Policy Report on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in response to guidance issued earlier that year by the...
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Introduction
China has been experiencing rapid urbanisation since the launch of economic reform and open-up policy in 1970s. Urban areas expand dramatically which...
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Construction of ecological security pattern of the Chinese section of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” based on the minimum cumulative resistance model
The six northwestern provinces are much of the Chinese section of the “Silk Road Economic Belt”, and the ecological environment is relatively...
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Challenges of transhumance in Northwest Cameroon
This study provides an overview of transhumance challenges in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) communities, identifying factors limiting seasonal livestock...
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Environment and Natural Resources Economics: Overview
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the background of natural resource and environmental economics and its connotation, and analyzes...
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How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
This study investigated land tenure potential to influence farmers’ adaptive responses to climate change. A quantitative approach was employed to...
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Assessing the contribution of ecological restoration projects to ecosystem services values in the Chinese loess plateau
Large-scale ecological restoration projects (ERPs) in the Chinese Loess Plateau have been widely reported over the past decades. However, the impacts...
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Factors Affecting Farmers’ Satisfaction with Contemporary China’s Land Allocation Policy—The Link Policy: Based on the Empirical Research of Ezhou
Since the launch of economic reform and openness policy in the late 1970s, Chinese cities have witnessed significant growth and sprawl, resulting in...