Buscar
Mostrando ítems 41-50 de 28802
Agricultural land-use intensity and its effects on small mammals in the central region of Argentina
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015-10)
Agriculture intensification is one of the main threats to biodiversity in agricultural systems. The effectiveness of conservation strategies in these systems depends mainly on the compromise between biodiversity conservation ...
United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) - Chapter 2: Land-Climate Interactions
Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and temporal scales. This chapter assesses climate impacts on land and ...
LAND-USE DECISION MAKING, UNCERTAINTY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF LAND REFORM IN ACRE, BRAZILIAN AMAZONLAND-USE DECISION MAKING, UNCERTAINTY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF LAND REFORM IN ACRE, BRAZILIAN AMAZON
(Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia, 2016)
Land privatization and deforestation in a commodity production frontier
(John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2021-02)
Conservation policies often promote land privatization to reduce incentives for deforestation. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between land-tenure form and forest conservation outcomes is inconclusive. We ...
Is aridity restricting deforestation and land uses in the South American Dry Chaco?
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07)
In this paper, we explored how aridity influences the regional deforestation and land-use patterns (i.e. crops/pastures) in South American Dry Chaco. To do this, we contrasted land use during last decade (2001–2012) with ...
Household demographic change and land use/land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon
(SpringerDordrechtHolanda, 2007)
Essays on the effects of the Homestead Act on Land Inequality and Human Capital, the effects of Land Redistribution on Crop Choice, and the effects of Earthquakes on Birth Outcomes
(2017)
Chapter 1: Land Inequality and Human Capital: Evidence for the United States from the Homestead Act. This chapter uses historical records of land patents and county level census data to estimate the impact of the Homestead ...
Layered Inequalities: land grabbing, collective land rights and afro-descendant resistance in Colombia (politics, community and society in a ... gesellschaft in einer globalisierten Welt)
In Colombia, since the 1990s, thousands of Afro-descendants have benefited from collective land rights. However, many peasants have been violently displaced in order to introduce industrial crops, while several other groups ...
A Hedonic Urban Land Price Index
(Pergamon, 2019-02)
Urban development projects have many effects on society, such as improving mobility, health, education, and sustainability. For policy-relevant measures, it is important that policymakers are able to foresee how quality ...