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Effects of grazing management practices, topographic position, and land cover type on soil organic carbon fractions in semi-arid rangelands of Kenya

open access: yesCarbon Balance and Management
Background This study evaluated the effects of grazing management practices, topographic position, and land cover types on mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) in a semi-arid rangeland of Kenya.
A. N. Gitau   +6 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIAL LAND USE PATTERNS ON RURAL AMENITY VALUES AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR GROWTH MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM A CONTINGENT CHOICE SURVEY [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reports on a contingent choice study in which residents of a rural Rhode Island community were asked to express their preferences for packages of growth management outcomes, where surveys presented both spatial and non-spatial attributes of ...
Bauer, Dana Marie   +2 more
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Land Markets and Agricultural Land Use Efficiency and Sustainability: Evidence from East Africa [PDF]

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Land markets, including land sales and short-term land rentals, have an important role to play for efficient and sustainable land management and agricultural development, especially where markets for other factors of production are imperfect or missing ...
Benin, Samuel   +3 more
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Land leasing and land sale as an infrastructure-financing option [PDF]

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Municipal land sales provide one option for financing urban infrastructure investment. In countries where land is owned by the public sector, land is by far the most valuable asset on the municipal balance sheet.
Peterson, George E.
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Land use decision modeling with dynamically updated soil carbon emission rates [PDF]

open access: yes
Soil carbon can be sequestered through different land management options depending on the soil carbon status at the beginning of a management period.
Uwe A. Schneider
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Medicinal Plants Use for Treating Human and Livestock Ailments in Hugumbirda National Forest, Tigray, Ethiopia: A Community-Based Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Forestry Research
Traditional ecological knowledge of medicinal plants is a valuable yet often under-documented resource for human and livestock healthcare, as well as for forest biodiversity conservation.
Abeba Teklay   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

2011 Michigan Land Values and Leasing Rates [PDF]

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Land is a natural resource that is valued for many reasons. Farmers utilize land to earn their livelihood and as a store of wealth for future retirement.
Harsh, Stephen B., Wittenberg, Eric
core   +1 more source

Evaluating the changes in soil erodibility factor (K) induced by exclosures of different ages, Kola Tembien, Tigray, Ethiopia

open access: yesDiscover Environment
Although exclosures were widely implemented to reverse land degradation processes in Tigray region, North Ethiopia, there is a lack of scientific studies on how these exclosures impact the soil erodibility factor. Therefore, this research was carried out
Haftaye Hadush   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun, 2022
Chagas VBP, Chaffe PLB, Blöschl G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Review of existing information on the interrelations between soil and climate change. (ClimSoil). Final report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Carbon stock in EU soils – The soil carbon stocks in the EU27 are around 75 billion tonnes of carbon (C); of this stock around 50% is located in Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom (because of the vast area of peatlands in these countries) and ...
Alm, Jukka   +16 more
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