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Performance Evaluation of Industrial Land Policy in China

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
China
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
Rapid industrialization, as one of the main driving forces promoting sustainable economic growth, has increased the area of industrial land use significantly. Industrial land use manifests that the competition between it and other kinds of land use is growing. During the last decade in China, many targeted industrial land use policies have been enacted to stimulate appropriate industrial land use and to promote healthy economic development. However, it is difficult for scholars and governments of rapidly developing countries to judge and evaluate the performance of such policies.
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Processes Underlying 50 Years of Local Forest-Cover Change in Yunnan, China

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land governance
Recognition of the importance of forests for local livelihoods, biodiversity and the climate system has spurred a growing interest in understanding the factors that drive forest-cover change. Forest transitions, the change from net deforestation to net reforestation, may follow different pathways depending on a complex interplay of driving forces. However, most studies on forest transitions focus on the national level rather than the local level.
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Forest Land Acquisition by Stora Enso in South China: Status, Issues, and Recommendations

January, 2014
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
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Chinese Legal Research Guide

January, 2015
China
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
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Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land acquisitions
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
rangelands
Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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Remembering Elinor Ostrom

Her Work and its Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Conservation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

Reports & Research
April, 2014
Eritrea, Kenya, Mexico, Canada, Mongolia, India, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest conservation
land conservation
sustainable land management
natural resources management
common rights
commons
communal ownership
common property
This special issue of Policy Matters focuses on the outreach and impact of Dr. Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking research on common property (or commons) theory. Her work was instrumental in shaping contemporary analyses of resource management and conservation, especially at a local level. This collection of research papers, essays, commentaries, and songs build upon her work and provide case studies demonstrating the practical application of her theoretical contributions.
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Recent situation and future prediction for areas suitable for double cropping of corn (Zea mays L.) production in Japan's Kanto region

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2014
Japan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land suitability
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China in the anthropocene: Culprit, victim or last best hope for a global ecological civilisation?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
The anthropocene is the age where human influences are determining the development of the planet’s ecosystems and thus the bio-physical basis of future human civilisations. Today China has become the world’s largest economy and its worst polluter with per capita greenhouse gas emissions surpassing the EU average, the world’s largest consumer of all kinds of resources.
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Почвы помогают бороться с изменением климата и адаптироваться к его последствиям, играя ключевую роль в круговороте углерода

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Tanzania, Kenya, China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land management
Здоровые почвы являются крупнейшим хранилищем углерода земной коры. В случае их рационального использования почвы могут играть важную роль в смягчении последствий изменения климата за счет накопления (связывания) углерода и уменьшения выбросов парниковых газов в атмосферу.
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Los suelos ayudan a combatir y adaptarse al cambio climático

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Tanzania, Kenya, China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land management
Los suelos sanos son el mayor almacén de carbono terrestre. Cuando se gestionan de manera sostenible, los suelos pueden jugar un papel importante en la mitigación del cambio climático a través del almacenamiento de carbono y la reducción de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmósfera.