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The impact of open access mandates on scientific research and technological development in the U.S.

iScience, 2023
Summary: Getting to a net-zero emissions economy requires faster development and diffusion of novel clean energy technologies. We exploit a rare natural experiment to study the impact of an open-access mandate on the diffusion of scientific research into
Benedict Probst, Paul M. Lohmann, Andreas Kontoleon, Laura Díaz Anadón   +3 more
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Non-Technical Pathways as Complements to Reducing Corruption in Land Governance Institutions in Africa

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
This paper underscores that corruption remains of key concern to land governance institutions in Africa, escalates costs of doing business and therefore undermines investments.
IBRAHIM MWATHANE
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Estimation of Grain Crop Yields after Returning the Illegal Nurseries and Orchards to Cultivated Land in the Yangtze River Delta Region

Land, 2022
The purpose of this study is to develop a new remote sensing method to assess the area of cultivated land illegally converted to nurseries and orchards in the Yangtze River Delta region of China over the past 40 years (1980–2020), and then estimate the ...
Yirui Han, Qinqin Pan, Yuee Cao, Jianhong Zhang, Jiaxuan Yuan, Borui Li, Saiqiang Li, Renfeng Ma, Xu Luo, Longbin Sha, Xiaodong Yang   +10 more
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Spatial-Temporal Evolution and Risk Assessment of Land Finance: Evidence from China

Risks, 2022
Land finance is a special land financing mode in China under the nationalization of urban land since 1954. The policy authorizes local governments to collect fiscal revenue from land grant premiums and land taxes.
De Zhou, Ruilin Tian, Zhulu Lin, Liming Liu, Junfeng Wang, Shijia Feng   +5 more
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Working governance for working land

Science, 2018
The lifting of economic sanctions on Iran in early 2016 raised hopes among conservationists that much available to protect the country's unique and threatened biodiversity. Unfortunately, on 4 November, economic sanctions were reimposed, likely leading to serious repercussions on biodiversity conservation.
Brockington, Dan, Adams, William M, Agarwal, Bina, Agrawal, Arun, Büscher, Bram, Chhatre, Ashwini, Duffy, Rosaleen, Fletcher, Robert, Oldekop, Johan A   +8 more
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Govern land as a global commons [PDF]

Nature, 2017
Felix Creutzig calls for international coordination of land use to ensure everyone has access to its fruits.
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Securing and Managing Community Land: Lessons from Kenya

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
This paper was presented in the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa held in Kigali, Rwanda, in November 2021. It is based on a three-year study by the Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI), in partnership with the International ...
IBRAHIM MWATHANE, Mwenda Makathimo, Robert Kibugi, Elvin Nyukuri   +3 more
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Absent Voices: Women and Youth in Communal Land Governance. Reflections on Methods and Process from Exploratory Research in West and East Africa

Land, 2020
An increasing number of African States are recognizing customary land tenure. Yet, there is a lack of research on how community rights are recognized in legal and policy frameworks, how they are implemented in practice, and how to include marginalized ...
S. Lemke, Priscilla Claeys
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors Determining Farmers’ Access to and Sources of Credit: Evidence from the Rain-Fed Zone of Pakistan

Agriculture, 2020
This study investigates the factors that affect farmers’ access to agricultural credit and its role in adopting improved agricultural technologies in the rain-fed zone of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Using logistic models, we assess and compare the
Ayat Ullah, Nasir Mahmood, Alam Zeb, Harald Kächele   +3 more
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The Spatial Mismatch between Tourism Resources and Economic Development in Mountainous Cities Impacted by Limited Highway Accessibility: A Typical Case Study of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Land, 2023
We studied the misalignment between tourism resources and economic development in mountainous cities in the context of limited highway network accessibility.
Maoyu Luo, Jiaming Li, Lingzhi Wu, Weiqin Wang, Zhuoga Danzeng, Lamu Mima, Renfeng Ma   +6 more
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