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Facilitating Community Transition to Sustainable Land Governance: A Study of a Communal Settlement in South Africa

open access: yesLand, 2023
Land is a fundamental resource that provides a foundation for the economy. Despite a wide range of studies on land governance systems, there is a lack of literature that analyzes the ability of communities to manage a change to different land governance ...
Nicholas Pinfold, Masilonyane Mokhele
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Improving Indonesia's Forest and Land Governance: Using a Delphi Approach to Identify Efficacious Interventions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It is now recognized that addressing deforestation and forest and peatlands degradation and destruction in Indonesia requires improvements to land and forest governance. It is also accepted that further research is required into this large field of study

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A precipitation recycling network to assess freshwater vulnerability : challenging the watershed convention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Water resources and water scarcity are usually regarded as local aspects for which a watershed-based management appears adequate. However, precipitation, as a main source of freshwater, may depend on moisture supplied through land evaporation from ...
Keune, Jessica, Miralles, Diego
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Monitoring Spatiotemporal Dynamic of Drought in Shendong Mining Area Based on Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index

open access: yesGuan'gai paishui xuebao, 2023
【Objective】 Drought is a stress that crops often experience during their growing season, and comprehending its spatiotemporal dynamics in a region is important to improve agricultural management.
SHAO Tianyi   +3 more
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Achieving Gender Justice in Indonesia's Forest and Land Governance Sector: How Civil Society Organizations Can Respond to Mining and Plantation Industry Impacts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Land based industries, most significantly palm oil plantations, timber concessions and mining operations, are expanding quickly in Indonesia. With approximately 840,000 ha of forest loss per year (Margono et al 2014), Indonesia suffers the world's ...
Lies Marcoes
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The Effects of Vegetation Structure and Timber Harvesting on Ground Beetle (Col.: Carabidae) and Arachnid Communities (Arach.: Araneae, Opiliones) in Short-Rotation Coppices

open access: yesLand
Landscape complexity is a crucial factor for insect diversity in agricultural landscapes. Short-rotation coppices (SRCs) are characterised by high habitat heterogeneity. The impact of vegetation structure on the composition and diversity of ground beetle
Jessika Konrad   +2 more
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Fragmented Laws, Contingent Choices: The Tragicomedy of the Village Commons in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Defining the direct conflict between law and social norms as a tragedy and their reconciliation as a comedy, this paper serves as a case study of the mixture of tragedies and comedies of collective land governance in China.
Qiao, Shitong
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Towards Governance or the Management of Cultural Landscapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Many (World Heritage) cultural landscapes are a living environment for thousands of inhabitants, visitors, entrepreneurs, farmers and other land users.
Kurz, Peter, Ruland, Gisa, Zech, Sibylla
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Land Governance Assessment

open access: yes, 2016
The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to assess the status of land governance at country level using a participatory process that draws systematically on existing evidence and local expertise rather than on outsiders.
openaire   +3 more sources

An investigation of inversion method to measure the radial velocity of Kuroshio from Sentinel-1 SAR data

open access: yesGIScience & Remote Sensing
Studies on the retrieval of ocean surface current by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mainly concentrate on coastal regions with land coverage, allowing for continuous land to estimate non-geophysical Doppler shifts.
Benhua Tan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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