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Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2023 Private forests have the potential to mitigate biodiversity loss and improve community livelihoods. However, information on the socio-ecological factors that drive their establishment and long-term management are limited.
Karafa Bognini +4 more
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Law and Policy Review on Green Hydrogen Potential in ECOWAS Countries
Energies, 2022 This paper aims to review existing energy-sector and hydrogen-energy-related legal, policy, and strategy documents in the ECOWAS region. To achieve this aim, current renewable-energy-related laws, acts of parliament, executive orders, presidential ...
Abdoulaye Ballo +6 more
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Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana
Climate Services, 2022 Climate services favor adopting strategies to increase agricultural productivity, enhance sustainable development, and adapt to unavoidable climate variability and change.
Safiétou Sanfo +12 more
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Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2022 Recent advances in Landsat archive data processing and characterization enhanced our capacity to map land cover and land use globally with higher precision, temporal frequency, and thematic detail.
P. Potapov +14 more
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Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6
Geoscientific Model Development, 2020 . Human land use activities have resulted in large changes to the biogeochemical and biophysical properties of the Earth's surface, with consequences for climate and other ecosystem services. In the future, land use activities are likely to expand and/or
G. Hurtt +31 more
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A Ricardian valuation of the impact of climate change on Nigerian cocoa production: Insight for adaptation policy [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018 Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the relative importance of climate normals (average long-term temperature and precipitation) in explaining net farm revenue per hectare (NRh) for supplementary irrigated and rainfed cocoa farms in Nigeria.
William M. Fonta +5 more
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Forecasting Urban Land Use Change Based on Cellular Automata and the PLUS Model
Land, 2022 Nowadays, cities meet numerous sustainable development challenges in facing growing urban populations and expanding urban areas. The monitoring and simulation of land use and land-cover change have become essential tools for understanding and managing ...
Linfeng Xu +5 more
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Land, 2021 Urbanization towards the expansion of the city area causes urban sprawl and changes in space use. Furthermore, urban agglomeration towards urban spatial integration causes a decrease in environmental quality.
B. Surya +5 more
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Discover Sustainability, 2021 Africa’s freshwater ecosystems are impacted by many threats due to climate change and several anthropogenic activities. In Côte d’Ivoire, the economy relies mostly on agriculture, which covers around 64% of the land surface.
Amien Isaac Amoutchi +4 more
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Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities
Nature Communications, 2022 Using engineered wood for construction has been discussed for climate change mitigation. It remains unclear where and in which way the additional demand for wooden construction material shall be fulfilled.
Abhijeet Mishra +8 more
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