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Developing marginal abatement cost curves for peatland restoration

Environmental Challenges
As countries strive to meet climatic targets, halting peatland degradation is coming to the foreground as a way of reducing emissions. However, restoring these valuable ecosystems entails complex interventions and substantial costs, requiring an ...
Daniel Urban, Michael MacLeod, Klaus Glenk, Vera Eory, Daniel Fletcher, Florian Payen   +5 more
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Tillage-induced wind erosion in semi-arid fallow lands of Central Anatolia, Turkey

Soil and Water Research, 2017
Wind erosion and resultant dust emissions create significant risks for land degradation and ecosystem health in arid and semi-arid regions. In these regions, fallowing constitutes a major component of conventional agriculture.
Mustafa BAŞARAN, Oğuzhan UZUN, Sema KAPLAN, Fatih GÖRMEZ, Gunay ERPUL   +4 more
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Changes in moisture and energy fluxes due to agricultural land use and irrigation in the Indian Monsoon Belt [PDF]

, 2006
We present a conceptual synthesis of the impact that agricultural activity in India can have on land-atmosphere interactions through irrigation. We illustrate a “bottom up” approach to evaluate the effects of land use change on both physical processes ...
Douglas, Ellen M, Frolking, Steve, Mohanty, U C, Niyogi, Dev, Niyogi, Nivedita, Pielke, Roger A, Sr, Vorosmarty, Charles, Yeluripati, Jagadeesh Babu   +7 more
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The Consequences of Soil Organic Carbon for Crop Yield, Farm Productivity and Profit

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Crop choices affect soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, allowing farmers to manipulate the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil over time. This paper examines the private and public benefits of crop rotations that sequester additional carbon across the province of Saskatchewan, Canada using a novel field‐level dataset from the Saskatchewan ...
Devin Allen Serfas
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies on Winter Wheat and Cropping System Performance across Precipitation Gradients in the Inland Pacific Northwest, USA

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2017
Ecological instability and low resource use efficiencies are concerns for the long-term productivity of conventional cereal monoculture systems, particularly those threatened by projected climate change.
Tai M. Maaz, William F. Schillinger, Stephen Machado, Erin Brooks, Jodi L. Johnson-Maynard, Lauren E. Young, Frank L. Young, Ian Leslie, Ayana Glover, Isaac J. Madsen, Aaron Esser, Harold P. Collins, William L. Pan   +12 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived patterns and drivers of deagrarianization: a case study of Ambros and Maramanzhi villages, South Africa

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Access to arable land has the potential to address the challenges of poverty, unemployment and household food insecurity in South Africa. Despite these opportunities and limited income sources, particularly in former homelands of the country, smallholder
Felicity Aphiwe Mkhongi, Walter Musakwa, Tholang Mokhele   +2 more
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Surveying the Farmer Survey: A Synthesis of Research Practices in the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research based on farmer surveys is a cornerstone of agricultural economics. Farmer surveys provide unique insights into behavioural variables—such as values, motivations, attitudes, behaviours, and preferences—that are unavailable in secondary datasets.
Thomas Slijper, Julia Höhler, Tanja Šumrada, Jens Rommel, Živa Alif, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle, Anne Sophie Dietrich, Uliana Gottlieb, Thanh Mai Ha, Karin Hakelius, Helena Hansson, Vivian Wei Huang, Katja Knez, Gaëlle Leduc, Nina Lind, Yann de Mey, Ana Novak, Harold Opdenbosch, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Anton Perpar, Jaap Sok, Luuk Vissers, Scarlett Wang, Lotte Yanore   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source