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Reconciling farming and wild nature: Integrating human–wildlife coexistence into the land-sharing and land-sparing framework
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)
Land has traditionally been spared to protect biodiversity; however, this approach has not succeeded by itself and requires a complementary strategy in human-dominated landscapes: land-sharing. Human–wildlife conflicts are ...
Land capability of multiple-landform watersheds with environmental land use conflicts
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-02-01)
This study introduces an improved method to assess land capability in the rural environment. Land capability, also defined as natural use, is a powerfull asset in land use planning and development of land use policies, ...
CONFLICT IN LAND-USE IN THE PURISCAL AREA OF THE RIO PARRITA WATERSHED IN SOUTHWESTERN COSTA RICACONFLICT IN LAND-USE IN THE PURISCAL AREA OF THE RIO PARRITA WATERSHED IN SOUTHWESTERN COSTA RICA
(University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus Agricultural Experiment Station, 1985)
Participatory, multi-criteria evaluation methods as a means to increase the legitimacy and sustainability of land use planning processes. The case of the Chaco Region in Salta, Argentina
(2017-02)
Conflicts over land use and ownership are common in South America and generate frequent confrontations among indigenous peoples, small-scale farmers, and large-scale agricultural producers. We argue in this paper that an ...
VIOLENCE, DEFORESTATION AND STRUGGLE FOR THE RECOVERY OF GRILLED LANDS IN PONTAL DO PARANAPANEMA: FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REGION IN DISPUTE OF CLASSES
(Univ Estadual Paulista Julio Mesquita Filho, Fac Ciencias & Tecnologia, 2018-09-01)
The Pontal do Paranapanema is a disputed territory. This has been the case since its occupation based on indigenous expropriation, land grabbing and deforestation. At present the dispute is in the struggle between the ...
Traversing the food-biodiversity nexus towards coexistence by manipulating social-ecological system parameters
(Wiley, 2020)
Agroecological landscapes have the potential to simultaneously meet food security and biodiversity conservation goals but are hindered by emerging biodiversity conflicts. Here, we opt to view the social-ecological factors ...
Environmental land use conflicts in a macroscale river basin: A preliminary study based on the ruggedness number
(2020-05-01)
Inadequate land use planning is one of the main driving forces leading to the occurrence of erosion and environmental degradation. The negative impacts of poor planning influence soil physical quality and fertility, ...
Flood Vulnerability, Environmental Land Use Conflicts, and Conservation of Soil and Water: A Study in the Batatais SP Municipality, Brazil
(Mdpi, 2018-10-01)
In many regions across the planet, flood events are now more frequent and intense because of climate change and improper land use, resulting in risks to the population. However, the procedures to accurately determine the ...
Land degradation: Multiple environmental consequences and routes to neutrality
(2018-10-01)
Degradation is currently affecting 25% of Earth's land and 40% of Earth's agricultural land. The environmental consequences of land degradation are vast, including amplified soil losses, water quality deterioration, ...