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Triangulation in participation: Dynamic approaches for science-practice interaction in land-use decision making in rural China

Land Use Policy Volume 72

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
China, Norway, Russia, United States of America
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
sustainable land use
Land use decision making requires knowledge integration from a wide range of stakeholders across science and practice. Many participatory methods and instruments aiming at such science-practice interaction have been developed during the last decades. However, there are methodological challenges, and little evidence neither about the methodological applicability and practicability under diverse socio-political conditions nor about their dynamics. The objective of this paper is to offer some insights on the design and implementation of reasonable science-practice interaction.
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Exploring the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation for policy implications

Land Use Policy Volume 76

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2018
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land use change
research
Cash crops have kept expanding at an accelerating rate across the globe during the last decades. It therefore requires elaborate efforts to examine the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation. With a case of the Hangzhou region in subtropical China, this paper investigated the dynamic patterns of four cash crop types (tea, fruit, mulberry and nursery) at town level by using aerial photos; and then quantified the subsequent socioeconomic and ecological consequences using spatial regression.
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Public-private partnership in enhancing farmers’ adaptation to drought: Insights from the Lujiang Flatland in the Nu River (Upper Salween) valley, China

Land Use Policy Volume 71

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2018
Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
farmers
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agriculture is an important type of land use but suffers from drought, especially under global climate change scenarios. Although government is a major actor in helping farmers to adapt to drought, lack of funds has constrained its efforts. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism has been widely applied in urban infrastructure development to raise fund for public goods and services, but very few studies explored its role in rural areas.
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Urban expansion dynamics and modes in metropolitan Guangzhou, China

Land Use Policy Volume 72

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
Urbanization changes urban landscapes and results in ecological and environmental problems. To solve these problems, it is essential to quantify the dynamics of urban expansion and better understand the modes of urban sprawl. This study evaluated urbanization in metropolitan Guangzhou, China from 1990 to 2020 and explored its modes of urban growth using Landsat Thematic Mapper images and simulated landscape maps based on the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects (CLUE) modeling framework.
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Assessing the Land and Vegetation Cover of Abandoned Fire Hazardous and Rewetted Peatlands: Comparing Different Multispectral Satellite Data

Volume 7 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
Russia
geographical information systems
Since the 1990s, many peatlands that were drained for peat extraction and agriculture in Russia have been abandoned with high CO2 emissions and frequent fires, such as the enormous fires around Moscow in 2010. The fire hazard in these peatlands can be reduced through peatland rewetting and wetland restoration, so monitoring peatland status is essential. However, large expanses, poor accessibility, and fast plant succession pose as challenges for monitoring these areas without satellite images.
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Utilization of agricultural land in the Russian Federation

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Russia, Latvia
land use
land management
land economics
land policies
farmland
This article reviews the initiatives for setting up rational use and protection of agricultural lands in order to ensure accelerated growth of the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation, enhancing its sustainability, efficiency, competitiveness, and environmental safety.
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The analysis of agricultural land patterns of the Altai Region

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Russia
land use
land management
land economics
land policies
farmland
In the structure of the land fund of the Altai Region the category of agricultural lands is the most extensive, it is more than 11.5 million hectares. More than 6.1 million hectares belong to individual citizens. There are more than 5 million hectares of state and municipal ownership. The rest of the lands are owned by legal entities. There were analyzed the natural and climatic conditions of the land fund of the Altai Region and its patterns in the natural subzones.
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Regulation of loading of drying-humidifying systems on water objects

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Russia
water management
land improvement
Preventing contamination of natural waters and controlling the volume and improving the quality of drain and wastewater from the reclaimed territories of the Non-Chernozem Zone of Russia requires applying a set of measures as well as developing new technical solutions.
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Assessment of the role of forest land in Samara region as environmental protection and land degradation prevention factor

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Russia, Latvia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land policies
land economics
forestry
forest land
land degradation
research
The article discusses the current state of forest land, the history of formation of large tracts of forest in the Samara region and analyses some of the results of implementation of target programs to improve the forest cover in the region under the Kyoto Protocol. This program was designed for the period from 2006 to 2015, but in 2009 was discontinued. However, large segment of assets was allocated and a number of works was carried out.
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Development of agricultural export is the important direction of agrarian policy of EEU member countries

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus
land policies
The scope of export-import operations with food goods (FG) and agricultural feedstock (AF) in 2012-2017 is estimated and the volume of output of the main kinds of agricultural products by 2020 by the EEU countries is forecasted. It is shown that from 2012 till 2016 the scope of export, import, goods turnover and trade balance of FG and AF have reduced from 17871.0; 44363.7; 62234.7 and -26492.7 mln dol to 16941.2; 26491.6; 43432.8 and -5411.4 mln dol, respectively. The mutual trade of FG and AF for the same period reduced 8058.3 to 6847.3 mln dol.