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The demarcation of permanent preservation areas along rivers [PDF]
Biotemas, 2013 Through the analysis of the new Brazilian Forest Code (Law 4,771/65) legislative reform, this paper shows the evolution of legal protection to the riparian system (marginal strips), defined as vegetation strings along rivers and other water bodies, which
João de Deus Medeiros
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Mechanisms and Challenges of Land Planning Application in Location of Industries in the Iranian Environmental Law [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2022 Misallocation of industries can cause environmental degradation and land misuse, and therefore, to control the deleterious impacts of which on the environment, it is required to use land planning besides the environmental rules on the allocation of ...
Meysam Lotfi +2 more
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Land, 2022 Examining land use transition is a new way of building on the comprehensive research on Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC). Research on transition law and characteristics is important for improving the theory of land use transition and the practice of land ...
Xinyao Li +6 more
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Securing and Managing Community Land: Lessons from Kenya
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 This paper was presented in the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa held in Kigali, Rwanda, in November 2021. It is based on a three-year study by the Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI), in partnership with the International ...
IBRAHIM MWATHANE +3 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Agricultural expansion is the primary cause of forest loss and fragmentation. It threatens the conservation of its biodiversity as well as the capability to provide ecosystem services. Land-use policies, such as zonation programs, have been traditionally
Pablo Arriaga Velasco-Aceves +2 more
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Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Significance Regional quantification of feasibility and effectiveness of forest strategies to mitigate climate change should integrate observations and mechanistic ecosystem process models with future climate, CO2, disturbances from fire, and management.
B. Law +5 more
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The role of law in adaptive governance
Ecology and Society, 2017 The term "governance" encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes place, and in doing so becomes one ...
Barbara A. Cosens +9 more
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Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 The conversion of natural land cover into human-dominated land use systems has significant impacts on the environment. Global mapping and monitoring of human-dominated land use extent via satellites provides an empirical basis for assessing land use ...
M. Hansen +10 more
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Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience
Ecology and Society, 2017 The Adaptive Water Governance project is an interdisciplinary collaborative synthesis project aimed at identifying the features of adaptive governance in complex social-ecological institutional systems to manage for water-basin resilience. We conducted a
Craig Anthony (Tony). Arnold +3 more
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Land, 2021 Given the diverse socioecological consequences of rapid urban sprawl worldwide, the delineation and monitoring of urban boundaries have been widely used by local governments as a planning instrument for promoting sustainable development.
Chong Zhao, Yu Li, Min Weng
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