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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cropland protection in highly urbanized regions requires reconciling stable quantitative‐qualitative targets with the functional optimization of extremely fragmented spatial structures. This study develops a patch‐level multi‐objective spatial reconfiguration framework of cropland layouts based on the Non‐dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm‐II
Zhibang Luo, Bowen Zhang, Dianfeng Liu
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ALTA OR NLTA: WHAT'S IN THE NAME? LAND TENURE DILEMMA AND THE FIJI SUGAR INDUSTRY [PDF]
Since 1997, the agricultural leases on Native land, issued under the 1976 Agricultural and Landlord Tenants Act (ALTA), began to expire. The sugar industry is the main commodity export earner for Fiji, directly contributing about 22% of the national GDP ...
Lal, Padma +2 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.No‐analogue futures are characteristic of the Anthropocene, but how global change, and societies' responses, will affect plant invasions remains unclear. Conducting research now to address future needs is crucial for guiding invasion management and policy.
Jennifer L. Bufford +12 more
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PATTERNS OF TENURE INSECURITY IN GUYANA [PDF]
As of 1998, the land tenure situation along Guyana's coast was marked by disarray and insecurity. Renewed interest in land following the economic and political liberalization of the early 1990s spawned land conflicts and exacerbated their severity.
Lemel, Harold
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A reconstructed Pangea would result in lower biodiversity
Oikos, EarlyView.Driven by globalization and climatic change, rates of biological invasion are on the increase. Although these increasing rates are widely expected to lead to increased rates of extinction, it has been argued that these ‘newly arrived' species might increase biodiversity.
John M. Halley, Gábor L. Lövei
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Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial Benin [PDF]
Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state.
James Fenske
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Land tenure, resource access and decentralization: The political economy of land tenure in Ghana
, 1999 Metadata only recordThis paper... [is]...an inquiry into the Political economy of land tenure in Ghana. Resource access to individuals and local communities under Customary Land Law on the one hand, and government landholdings and land management ...
Kasanga, K.
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The role of community‐level institutions in smallholder land restoration
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This review focuses on the role of community‐level institutions in the adoption of land restoration practices by smallholder farmers. Based on a systematic review of 72 peer‐reviewed articles from 33 low‐ and middle‐income countries, the review synthesizes recent empirical evidence on the various roles these institutions play in supporting ...
Daniel Wiegant, Soumya Balasubramanya
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Rural Land Use and Land Tenure in New Zealand [PDF]
Private land-use decisions are critical for a broad spectrum of environmental and social outcomes, ranging from water quality and climate change to rural income distribution.
Levente Tímár
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