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Identification of Arable Marginal Lands under Rainfed Conditions for Bioenergy Purposes in Spain

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Spain
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land productivity
The cultivation of bioenergy crops could be considered as sustainable; however, its use in fertile lands could conflict with food production. The general purpose of this study is to identify areas where traditional food crops are not economically sustainable, but where they could be substituted by energy crops without changing the land use in Spain. We studied the profit margin of the main crops of the country, which are wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), the spatial location of the growing areas, and the biophysical constraints.
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Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
geographical information systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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European investors and land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land investments
The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.
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Long-term impact of rainfed agricultural land abandonment on soil erosion in the Western Mediterranean basin

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Spain
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land use change
parcels
scale
Land abandonment is widespread in the Mediterranean mountains. The impact of agricultural abandonment results in a shift in ecosystem evolution due to changes in soil erosion, but little is known about long-term soil and water losses. This paper uses 11 years of measurements in two paired plots (abandoned vs control) with four subplots to determine how soil and water losses evolved after abandonment within an agricultural parcel. For two years (2004–2005) both plots were under tillage, and after 2006 one plot was abandoned.
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Forest and Arborescent Scrub Habitats of Special Interest for SCIs in Central Spain

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable land management
The habitat of the several territories in Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) are studued through the and mapping (scale 1:10.000) and vegetation analysis. The distribution and surface of the habitat presents in the Sites of Community Interest (SCIs), as well as pressures, threats, trends, and state of conservation are described. These site contributes significantly to the maintenance or restoration at a favourable conservation status of a natural habitat type or of a species of community intesess.These specially protected areas are part of the Natura 2000 network.
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Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Argentina, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Paraguay, United States of America, South America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
deforestation
livestock
The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration of forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands of kilometers away (deforestation to produce grain for feeding livestock). Despite their importance, these externalities are poorly known. Here we evaluated how the intensification and confinement of livestock in Spain has affected forest surface changes there and in South America, the largest provider of soybeans for animal feed to the European Union.
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The Relict Ecosystem of Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea in an Agricultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future Scenarios

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Spain, United States of America, Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable land management
Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea is a shrub belonging to the Celastraceae family, whose only European populations are distributed discontinuously along the south-eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, forming plant communities with great ecological value, unique in Europe.
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Green infrastructure planning: Unveiling meaningful spaces through Foursquare users’ preferences

Land Use Policy Volume 97

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Spain, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
infrastructure
land use
land-use planning
research
sustainable land management
urban areas
urban planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content from Location Based Social Network —LBSN— Foursquare is used as a complementary data source.
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Mapping the intangible: Using geolocated social media data to examine landscape aesthetics

Land Use Policy Volume 77

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Spain, Venezuela
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
The ecosystem services concept is increasingly gaining momentum in land-use policies and landscape planning. Yet, cultural ecosystem services often lack proper assessments. With this study, we use novel methodological approaches to map the cultural ecosystem service landscape aesthetics for its enhanced consideration in land-use policies. Our study uses expert-based participatory mapping and crowd-sourced (social media) photo data to examine the spatial distribution of landscape aesthetics in the Province of Barcelona, Catalonia.
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Urban expansion and forest reserves: Drivers of change and persistence on the coast of São Paulo State (Brazil)

Land Use Policy Volume 101

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Saint-Martin, Brazil, United States of America, Italy, Spain
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land policies
land use
research
Landscapes changes are a result of a wide range of interactions between actors and driving forces (DFs). In this study, we quantify the contribution of different types of DFs to processes of land change in the Northern Coast of São Paulo State (NCSP), Brazil, an important region for tourism and the energy sector. We analysed the relationship between DFs and the processes of land change from 1985 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2015 with partial least squares path modelling.