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A trade-off between farm production and flood alleviation using land use tillage preferences as a natural flood management (NFM) strategy

Smart Agricultural Technology, 2023
Trade-off studies effectively compare rational decisions when choosing alternatives. This study utilizes a Bayesian belief network (BBN) model to analyse land use tillage practices for flood management, considering climate, soilscape, slope, and farming ...
Qaisar Ali
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Sustainable management of hill land

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association, 1993
One of the major environmental issues currently facing New Zealand is that of the sustainability of pastoral farming on North Island hill country. To be sustainable, a system must be resource conserving, environmentally compatible, socially supportive and commer-cially competitive.
A.D. Mackay, M.E. Wedderburn, M.G. Lambert   +2 more
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Land transformation across agroecological zones reveals expanding cropland and settlement at the expense of tree-cover and wetland areas in Nigeria

Geo-spatial Information Science
Evaluating how land cover is being transformed is essential to identify patterns necessary to infer the change trajectories and the driving factors. This study considers the case of Nigeria, where various natural ecosystems are being converted and for ...
Felicia O. Akinyemi, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza   +1 more
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Assessment of sustainable land use: linking land management practices to sustainable land use indicators

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2022
Land degradation threatens food production especially in smallholder farming systems predominant in sub-Saharan Africa. Monitoring the effects of agricultural land uses is critical to guide sustainable intensification (SI).
Generose Nziguheba, Julius Adewopo, Cargele Masso, Nsharwasi Leon Nabahungu, Johan Six, Haroon Sseguya, Godfrey Taulya, Bernard Vanlauwe   +7 more
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Systems knowledge for sustainable soil and land management

Science of The Total Environment, 2022
While soils and land are pivotal elements of many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and societal challenges, they face degradation and reduction of related functions and services worldwide. Societal demands on soils and land are increasing, including contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation, ecosystem services, biodiversity and ...
Löbmann, Michael, Maring, Linda, Prokop, Gundula, Brils, Jos, Bender, Johannes, Bispo, Antonio, Helming, Katharina   +6 more
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Combining remote sensing with local knowledge is vital for understanding forest change in West Africa

Scientific Reports
Understanding tropical forest change requires integrating satellite observations with insights from forest-dependent communities. In West Africa, where deforestation and degradation unfold within complex social-ecological systems, conventional monitoring
Chima Jude Iheaturu, Felicia Olufunmilayo Akinyemi, Vladimir Ruslan Wingate, Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza   +4 more
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CHARACTERISING UPLAND SWAMPS USING OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION METHODS AND HYPER-SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY DERIVED FROM AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
Subsidence, resulting from underground coal mining can alter the structure of overlying rock formations changing hydrological conditions and potentially effecting ecological communities found on the surface.
A. M. Lechner, A. Fletcher, K. Johansen, P. Erskine   +3 more
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Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as highly promising materials for solar fuel and chemical synthesis. This perspective discusses advances made in the rational photoelectrode design to improve solar‐to‐chemical conversion, product scope, and scalability.
Virgil Andrei
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Integrating UAV LiDAR and multispectral data to assess forest status and map disturbance severity in a West African forest patch

Ecological Informatics
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies have emerged as promising tools to improve forest ecosystem assessments. These technologies offer high-resolution data that can significantly enhance evaluations of forest structure, condition, and disturbance ...
Chima J. Iheaturu, Samuel Hepner, Jonathan L. Batchelor, Georges A. Agonvonon, Felicia O. Akinyemi, Vladimir R. Wingate, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza   +6 more
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Linking Food Democracy and Sustainability on the Ground: Learnings from the Study of Three Alternative Food Networks in Brussels

Politics and Governance, 2019
The article explores and discusses, both conceptually and empirically, the exercise of food democracy in the context of three alternative food networks (AFNs) in Brussels, Belgium.
François Lohest, Tom Bauler, Solène Sureau, Joris Van Mol, Wouter M. J. Acten   +4 more
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