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Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2025.Abstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Simone Athayde +8 more
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China's Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 830-861, May 2025.Abstract Scholars have hitherto tended to theorise China's ecological civilisation project either as a form of environmental authoritarianism or as a vision of eco‐socialism. This paper contributes to the conversation by conducting a textual analysis of Chinese scholarly discussions on eco‐civilisation.
David Chen
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Threats posed by land use to water quality in South Africa's strategic water source areas
World Water Policy, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 155-164, February 2025.Abstract Understanding the negative impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) on water quality is key to developing effective integrated catchment management strategies. However, in line with the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) philosophy, this necessitates the generation and application of useful scientific knowledge, which stakeholders and ...
Kent Anson Locke, Kevin Winter
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Shuitu Baochi Xuebao, 2002 广西是一个地处亚热带、土地资源较丰富、喀斯特地貌广布、土地利用水平欠低的省区。在用详尽的数据分析了广西土地资源具有总量丰富，但质量不高，且土地生产力的区域差异非常显著等特点的基础上，指出广西土地资源利用中存在着水土流失和土地污染严重、地力下降及土地生产力水平低下等问题，并提出了土地资源利用与保护的对策。
谭永忠 莫大同 等
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Integrative Conservation, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 312-329, December 2024.Biosphere reserves aim to protect global biodiversity alongside social and economic development. In the Cape Floristic Region, biosphere reserves are an effective conservation approach to protect arthropods against habitat transformation in this biodiverse region.
Michael J. Samways +3 more
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Shuitu Baochi Xuebao, 2002 水土保持是一项涉及多学科的边缘科学,各项措施的实施已为西北尤其是黄土高原地区控制水土流失、发展农业经济起到了很好的效果。本文着重从水土保持措施对水资源的保护、利用方面进行了分析,以阐明水土保持措施在西部大开发的生态建设中对水资源保护及合理利用的重要意义。
张满良
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World Water Policy, Volume 10, Issue 4, Page 1170-1186, November 2024.Abstract Sustainable land management (SLM) practices is a key to reducing rates of land degradation and has proven to ensure water security by increasing soil moisture availability, decreasing surface runoff, decreasing soil erosion, increasing infiltration, and decreasing flood discharge. Land degradation is adversely affecting over 75% of the Earth's
Melku Dagnachew +5 more
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Dams in intrastate ethnic conflict: A comparison of Turkey and Ethiopia
World Water Policy, Volume 10, Issue 4, Page 1044-1065, November 2024.Abstract Why do dams exacerbate ethnic conflict in Turkey but not in Ethiopia? This paper analyzes the impacts of a growing push to develop water resources through hydroelectric dams, which promise clean energy, jobs, and economic opportunities. Yet dam building also causes environmental degradation, mass relocation, the flooding of historical sites ...
Alex Bezahler
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, 2007 在总结土壤水研究现状和对土壤水的资源特性认识的基础上,重新定义了土壤水资源,土壤水资源是指植物根系可吸收利用的范围,其补给主要来源于大气降水,即能被植物(包括农作物)及土壤微生物所利用并可以恢复和更新的土壤水的数量;并阐述了土壤水资源的特征,它具有对降水依赖性与相关性,不易保存性或易耗散性,不可开采性与就地利用性,有效性和无效性,可调控性的特征;提出了土壤水资源的评价指标,包括土壤水资源最大存储量、可利用量、无效水资源量和实际存储量 ...
高鹏, 穆兴民, 邬春龙
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World Water Policy, Volume 10, Issue 4, Page 1119-1161, November 2024.Abstract The present paper critically examines water‐assisted developmental projects and their associated conflicts through the lens of political ecology, with a particular focus on hydroelectric power generation in the Global South. These projects often catalyze localized socio‐cultural, political, and ecological tensions, especially in indigenous ...
Surajit Kar +2 more
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