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Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesAnnual Review Environment and Resources, 2019
Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial enhanced weathering (TEW), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage ...
Pete Smith   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preferences in Farmland Eco-Compensation Methods: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

open access: yesLand, 2021
Successful farmland eco-compensation projects need to reflect the heterogeneous preferences both from suppliers and beneficiaries. This paper tries to answer this question by investigating both citizen and farmer preferences for different farmland eco ...
Xin Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the ecological impacts of opencast coal mining in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau-a case study in Muli coal field, China

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2023
Coal-based industries are critical to the contemporary world's growth, while the environmental degradation associated with the industry is also increasing. In this study, we develop the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) and map its distribution from
Wu Xiao   +4 more
doaj  

Analysis of the effects of the development of traditional tectonic systems of low-rise buildings [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
The Genesis of architectural science (in the framework of the development of the theory of architecture) is accompanied (clarified, supplemented, changed) by the conceptual and semantic meaning of tectonics — one of the main categories of composition ...
Pleshivtsev Alexander, Pakunova Tatiana
doaj   +1 more source

Factors that influence the implementation of sustainable land management practices by rural households in Tigrai region, Ethiopia

open access: yesEcological Processes, 2019
BackgroundSustainable land management is considered as one of the useful approaches to combat the threat of various forms of land degradation in Ethiopia.
Haftu Etsay, T. Negash, Metkel Aregay
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transparency of Land Administration and the Role of Blockchain Technology, a Four-Dimensional Framework Analysis from the Ghanaian Land Perspective

open access: yesLand, 2020
Existing studies on blockchain within land administration have focused mainly on replacing or complementing the technology for land registration and titling.
Prince Donkor Ameyaw   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Remote Sensing-Based Inventory of West Africa Tropical Forest Patches: A Basis for Enhancing Their Conservation and Sustainable Use

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
The rate of tropical deforestation is increasing globally, and the fragmentation of remaining forests is particularly high in arable landscapes of West Africa. As such, there is an urgent need to map and monitor these remnant forest patches/fragments and
Vladimir R. Wingate   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Tool for Better Land Management [PDF]

open access: yesInformation, 2020
The ability of keeping a record of geospatial information, knowing how it changed over time, is crucial for landscape analysis and territorial government. Land management is still a problem. Many governmental databases are incomplete, and there is a lack of reliable information.
Bernardo Carvalhinho   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Comparative Review of Methods Supporting Decision-Making in Urban Development and Land Management

open access: yesLand, 2019
This paper discusses how and where technologies supporting decision-making can play, or are already playing, a role in both urban development and land management.
M. Wagner, W. D. de Vries
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advances in quantifying soil organic carbon under different land uses in Ethiopia: a review and synthesis

open access: yesBulletin of the National Research Centre, 2019
Background In the face of climate change and global warming, scientists globally are striving for effective techniques on how best to sequester carbon in order to reduce global warming and achieve environmental sustainability.
Chukwuebuka C. Okolo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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