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Gender and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN): Evaluating Nigeria's Legislative Framework for Achieving Gender‐Equitable LDN Outcomes

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Legislative frameworks that support gender equality are crucial for addressing structural inequalities, protecting women's rights, and achieving gender‐equitable land degradation neutrality (LDN) outcomes. This study examines the extent to which national‐level policies and legislation governing LDN and related sectors incorporate gender ...
Cynthia Nneka Olumba   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canopy dieback and recovery in Australian native forests following extreme drought. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2022
Losso A   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Fire Patterns and Post‐fire Forest Change in Peru (2000–2021)

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire is increasingly more frequent and severe in many tropical regions, leading to significant forest loss, diminished biodiversity, and reduced Nature's contributions to people (NCPs). In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of fire in Peru and its regions, focusing on: (1) burned area, (2) size, and (3) number of fires, using ...
Maricel Móstiga   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Identification of Severe Flood and Drought in Minjiang River Basin

open access: yesRenmin Zhujiang
To improve the scheduling plan for extreme hydrological events and severe drought and flood risks in the Minjiang River Basin, this paper employs the standardized runoff index SRI and standardized precipitation index SPI to identify and analyze the ...
WU Jing
doaj  

The Impact of Drought on Household Food Security in the Limpopo Basin of Semi Arid Southern Africa: The Case of Kgatleng District in Botswana [PDF]

open access: yes
The Limpopo Basin is important to Botswana’s agriculture in terms of its land area of 80118 square kilometers. Climatic conditions in the Basin have ranged from droughts to floods in some years.
Acquah, Benjamin K.
core   +1 more source

Protecting and Maintaining Silicon Valley’s Liquid Gold [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Public sector leaders and decision makers in the California water industry have learned from previous severe drought conditions that to sustain water supplies during extremely dry seasons, there is a substantial need for behavioral changes associated ...
Fulcher, Paul Mark
core   +1 more source

Asphalted parking lots are environmental filters for multiple propagule dispersal and pollination strategies

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organic fertilization enhances the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities under extreme drought. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Adv Res, 2023
Sun Y   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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