Earth's Future, Volume 11, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract As the Earth's Third Pole and the Asian water tower, the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau (QTP) plays a key role in global climate regulation and biodiversity maintenance. Living in harmony with nature is vital for local and global sustainable development. Current research on the conflicted or coordinated relationship between humans and nature on the QTP
Haimeng Liu +5 more
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Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark
Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 245-257, June 2023., 2023 Abstract A confluence of concerns about tropical forest loss, global warming, and social inequality drive calls to transform land use governance. Yet there is widespread debate about what must be transformed, by whom, and how. The increasing equation of transformation with ambitious, quantitative global targets, such as “net zero emissions” or “zero ...
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Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System [PDF]
, 2019 Bioeconomy strategies in high income societies focus at replacing finite, fossil resources by renewable, biological resources to reconcile macro-economic concerns with climate constraints.
Bruckner, Martin +6 more
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The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation [PDF]
, 2020 What are the capacities of the state to facilitate a comprehensive sustainability transition? It is argued that structural barriers akin to an invisible "glass ceiling" are inhibiting any such transformation.
Hausknost, Daniel
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Conservation & Society, 2022 Conservation Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are crucial actors in global conservation governance. They shape resource flows, establish cross-sector and cross-scale networks, and influence conservation discourses and practices.
Joel Persson +2 more
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The coupling of South American soybean and cattle production frontiers: new challenges for conservation policy and land change science [PDF]
, 2014 Different drivers and places of land use change in South America have often been studied in isolation. Evidence suggests, however, that in many instances, both places and drivers are becoming increasingly interconnected.
Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio +1 more
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How are institutions included in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects? Developing and testing a diagnostic approach on the World Bank's Forest and Community project in Salta, Argentina [PDF]
, 2022 Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-MAltres ajuts: acord transformatiu CRUE-CSICThe opportunities and challenges of ensuring participation and success of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have been fairly studied ...
Busck-Lumholt, Louise Marie +2 more
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Uncovering the spatially distant feedback loops of global trade: A network and input-output approach [PDF]
, 2017 Land-use change is increasingly driven by global trade. The term “telecoupling” has been gaining ground as a means to describe how human actions in one part of the world can have spatially distant impacts on land and land-use in another.
Anderson +67 more
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Multiscale scenarios for nature futures [PDF]
, 2017 Targets for human development are increasingly connected with targets for nature, however, existing scenarios do not explicitly address this relationship. Here, we outline a strategy to generate scenarios centred on our relationship with nature to inform
Acosta, Lilibeth A. +45 more
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Understanding land in the context of large-scale land acquisitions: A brief history of land in economics [PDF]
, 2019 In economics, land has been traditionally assumed to be a fixed production factor, both in terms of quantity supplied and mobility, as opposed to capital and labor, which are usually considered to be mobile factors, at least to some extent.
De Maria, Marcello
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