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EDIS, 2016 This is the fourth publication in the Encouraging Landscape Water Conservation Behaviors series, which focuses on improving and encouraging water conservation among Florida residents who use irrigation in their home landscape. This 4-page fact sheet examines the impact of differently framed messages on Florida residents’ attitudes toward good ...
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EDIS, 2015 Message framing can be an effective tool for crafting messages for a target audience. This 5-page fact sheet explains how Extension can use gain and loss message framing to encourage Florida residents who irrigate their home landscape to adopt water-conservation practices.
Courtney Owens +4 more
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The use of ecosystem-based adaptation practices by smallholder farmers in Central America [PDF]
, 2017 There is growing interest in promoting the use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, however there is limited information on how commonly these practices are used by smallholder farmers and ...
Avelino, Jacques +7 more
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Sustainable water resource management in steep-slope agriculture
Geography and Sustainability, 2022 Steep-slope agricultural landscapes are under threat due to climate change. On the one hand, the growing frequency of extreme high-intensity rainfall events concentrated in both temporal and spatial scales are causing flash floods or slope failure risk ...
Wendi Wang +3 more
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Assessing and Influencing Attitudes toward Water-conserving Landscapes [PDF]
HortTechnology, 1992 Implementing water-conserving landscapes is one action that many individuals can take to help ease the nation's water crisis, but few people seem to be exercising this option. Some horticulturists attribute this to a negative attitude toward such landscapes.
Virginia I. Lohr, Lenore H. Bummer
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Synergies for Improving Oil Palm Production and Forest Conservation in Floodplain Landscapes [PDF]
, 2014 Lowland tropical forests are increasingly threatened with conversion to oil palm as global demand and high profit drives crop expansion throughout the world’s tropical regions.
Andrew T. Knight +46 more
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CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry - Plan of Work and Budget 2020 [PDF]
, 2020 There were no significant changes in 2019 to FTA’s theory of change1. FTA plans all its work on the basis of its operational priorities. These, in turn, focusresearch towards major development demands and knowledge gaps, orienting FTA towards the ...
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Evaluation of buffer-radius modelling approaches used in forest conservation and planning [PDF]
, 2010 Spatial modelling approaches are increasingly being used to direct forest management and conservation planning at the landscape scale. A popular approach is the use of buffer-radius methods, which create buffers around distinct forest habitat patches to ...
Bailey, S. +3 more
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Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2020 Land set-up systems in Italy were and, in a few cases, still are integral parts of agricultural landscapes. The soils of Italy mirror a wide variety of climates and morphologies and derive from a great diversity of parent materials influenced by ...
Giuseppe Lo Papa +4 more
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Heroic viticulture: Environmental and socioeconomic challenges of unique heritage landscapes
iScience, 2023 Summary: Steep-slope agricultural landscapes cover a small fraction of global agricultural areas.1 Despite the limited coverage, they are relevant for high-quality food and wine production, history, and landscape value.
Paolo Tarolli +4 more
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