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Participatory Monitoring in Forest Communities to Improve Governance, Accountability and Women’s Participation
We explore how participatory monitoring can help communities and community partners define local governance, identify governance issues and problems,...
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Spatial patterns of logging-related disturbance events: a multi-scale analysis on forest management units located in the Brazilian Amazon
ContextSelective logging has been commonly mapped using binary maps, representing logged and unlogged forests. However, binary maps may fall short...
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Discussion of the Development of a Typology of Biodiversity Offsets
The applied research methodology was fit for purpose under the given research premises, and it can provide a model for future research. Nevertheless,...
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Urban ecosystems and ecosystem services in megacity Dhaka: map** and inventory analysis
Urban ecosystems and ecosystem services have received little research attention in South Asian countries where rapid urban development is currently...
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A synthesis of women’s participation in small-scale fisheries management: why women’s voices matter
While women globally make up nearly half of the fisheries workforce, their contribution to the sector has long been overlooked with implications for...
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Prospective of Agricultural Farming in Kuwait and Energy-Food-Water-Climate Nexus
Kuwait is a desert, arable land, and water-scarce country. Agriculture farming in Kuwait is mainly practiced in Al-Wafra and Abdali, and to a lesser...
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Interests Arrangement in the Implementation of Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Certification: Case Study of Sari Makmur Palm Oil Smallholders in Riau Province
The implementation of the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification remains unsettled nearly a decade since its introduction in 2011. Only...
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Participatory landscape sustainability assessment: where do we stand? A systematic literature review
ContextIn line with inter- and transdisciplinary approaches promoted in Sustainability Science, Participatory Landscape Sustainability Assessments...
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Putting consumers first in food systems analysis: identifying interventions to improve diets in rural Ghana
A critical, yet underexplored, dimension of food systems is how consumer food preferences and beliefs interact with the food environment. We present...
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The Collserola Special Protection Plan (PEPNat): A Bid for Co-responsibility in Agricultural and Forest Management
The Collserola mountain range is a unique natural area covering over 8000 ha at the heart of a complex metropolitan realm. It thus presents great...
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Trees on Farms for Livelihoods, Conservation of Biodiversity, and Carbon Storage: Evidence from Nicaragua on This “Invisible” Resource
Trees on Farms (TonF) are ubiquitous. Farmers obtain numerous goods and services from their trees, which help them to cope with their livelihood...
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Impact of large-scale agricultural investments on the food security status of local community in Gambella region, Ethiopia
BackgroundThe government of Ethiopia has been promoting large-scale agricultural investments to accelerate agricultural modernization and improve...
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Introduction
This chapter presents the global context of ecosystem restoration and its relevance to socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS)....
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Maintaining natural and traditional cultural green infrastructures across Europe: learning from historic and current landscape transformations
ContextMaintaining functional green infrastructures (GIs) require evidence-based knowledge about historic and current states and trends of...
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Re-integrating ecology into integrated landscape approaches
ContextIntegrated landscape approaches (ILAs) that aim to balance conservation and development targets are increasingly promoted through science,...
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Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions
Since the 1990s, recognition of urban biodiversity research has increased steadily. Knowledge of how ecological communities respond to urban...
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A method to better identify the socio-economic determinants of transformations in agroforestry systems
This article presents a method for identifying the socio-economic determinants of transformations in agroforestry systems (AFS). It is based on the...
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Drought Disaster: Issues, Challenges and Risk Mitigation Strategies
There is no universal definition for drought and it is not possible to identify the beginning and end of a drought season, unlike earthquake or...
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Analysis of the interrelationships of stakeholders involved in the management of transhumance in southern Benin
The management of pastoral mobility is a stakeholder-centered approach for the integration of resource conservation and agricultural development....