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Une justice foncièrement autre ?
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2019 This article aims at questioning the power dynamics in the region of Upper Guinea, in Guinea, starting from an analysis of the increasing resort to the national justice system in land disputes.
Anna Dessertine
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Untitled public forestlands threaten Amazon conservation
Nature Communications, 2023 A large proportion of recent Brazilian Amazon deforestation is occurring on untitled public forestlands through land grabbing. This emerging risk demands long-term conservation strategies.
Paulo Moutinho, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Across sub‐Saharan Africa, tree‐based restoration efforts are dominated by exotic tree species due to their rapid biomass accumulation and short‐term economic returns. However, their limited contribution to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has renewed interest in native‐tree restoration as a more sustainable strategy.
Herimino Manoa Rajaonarivelo +8 more
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Three Faces of Shafa. Land Ownership on Trial in Ningarhar
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2013 A study of three districts in the Ningarhar Province – Qasimabad, Shahidano Meena, and Achin in the Shinwar District - urban, semi-urban and rural districts respectively – provides an analysis of the role of shafa (customary and Islamic religious law ...
Wamiqullah Mumtaz
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Reflections, perceptions and practices of spearfishing among Ulithian communities
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Spearfishing is a common and effective subsistence fishing method in coral reef‐dependent communities. Although its ecological impacts have been widely studied, spearfishing's sociocultural dimensions have received less attention despite its direct impacts on both reef and reef‐dependent communities.
Joshua Pi +8 more
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Applied Sciences, 2018 A world-wide demand in large-scale land acquisition over the past decade has been discussed as a land grab for access to natural resources. Forestland grab is the dynamics of land use changes by the foreign or national entities that can enable forests ...
Kazi Kamrul Islam, Kimihiko Hyakumura
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Market‐based conservation instruments such as REDD+ and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have been promoted to curb deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Yet these schemes remain contested, as they advance neoliberal conservation and reproduce gender inequalities.
Sandra Ángel Moreno +2 more
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ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2016 Participatory mapping has recently become an instrument used by NGOs to advocate for adat (customary) land in Indonesia. Maps produced from participatory mapping are expected to support legal recognition through land formalization or titling. In order to
Rosita Dewi
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Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Soil is a vital resource for life on Earth. Although many soils are degraded, societal awareness of soil‐related issues is limited. To highlight soil as a key resource and fascinating study system, we initiated a citizen science project together with 1000 participants investigating soil health across Switzerland using buried cotton underpants.
S. Franz Bender +258 more
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