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Urban water sustainability: framework and application
Ecology and Society, 2016 Urban areas such as megacities (those with populations greater than 10 million) are hotspots of global water use and thus face intense water management challenges.
Wu Yang +17 more
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Report About the NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards in 2015 [PDF]
With support from NASA and Michigan State University (MSU), 17 "NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award" recipients were able to attend the 2015 World Congress of Landscape Ecology.
Gutman, George, Liu, Jianguo (Jack)
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Conceptualizing Distal Drivers in Land Use Competition [PDF]
, 2016 This introductory chapter explores the notion of ‘distal drivers’ in land use competition. Research has moved beyond proximate causes of land cover and land use change to focus on the underlying drivers of these dynamics.
Gasparri, Ignacio +9 more
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Explanations in Telecoupling Research
, 2019 This chapter discusses how explanations can be built in telecoupling research and for what purposes. Explanations in human-environment (H-E) systems build on the deductive, inductive and abductive approaches and have to balance the identification of regularities and general mechanisms with contextual interpretation of contingencies.
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Environmental Research Letters, 2014 Global land acquisitions, often dubbed ‘land grabbing’ are increasingly becoming drivers of land change. We use the tools of network science to describe the connectivity of the global acquisition system.
J W Seaquist +2 more
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Governing agricultural land use in an interconnected world: Opportunities and challenges for Voluntary Sustainability Standards [PDF]
In today's interconnected world, agricultural land use is influenced by distant drivers and actors, while also having far-reaching sustainability implications extending beyond the boundaries of individual farms.
Sonderegger, Gabi
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Land, 2015 Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of large-scale economic land concessions for plantations in Laos and Cambodia. These studies have variously illustrated that concessions frequently result in
Ian G. Baird, Jefferson Fox
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Food security in a changing climate : The role of cropland intensification and land acquisitions across Africa [PDF]
, 2020 Food security is one of the world’s greatest challenges. The current food system shows an entanglement across the globe which means that local farmers reliant on subsistence agriculture no longer operate in isolation of larger-scale processes within the ...
Mechiche-Alami, Altaaf
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 A critical frontier of water management in the western US is the challenge of cross-scale interactions. It is difficult to establish clear governance boundaries and collectively act when basins are interconnected, surface water and groundwater flows are ...
Abigail M York +2 more
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Integration across a metacoupled world
Ecology and Society, 2017 Human-nature interactions are complex and have important implications for achieving sustainable development goals and addressing other global challenges.
Jianguo Liu
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