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Financial Analysis of Habitat Conservation Banking in California

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land acquisitions
Habitat conservation banking is a policy instrument for conserving endangered species by providing financial incentives for the landowners in the United States. This policy instrument aims to protect habitat, but little or no thought has been given to its financial performance. A financial analysis of habitat conservation banks (HCB) informs policymakers and conservation biologists of the long-term success of this policy and the future of HCBs. This paper evaluates 26 habitat conservation banks (HCB) in California by calculating their Net Present Values (NPV).
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Perceptions and Application of the Ecosystem Services Approach among Pacific Northwest National Forest Managers

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
forest land
The ecosystem services concept has emerged as a guiding principle in natural resource management over the past two decades, and an ecosystem services approach to management is currently mandated as a core element of United States National Forest planning. However, the concept of ecosystem services has been interpreted and operationalized in a variety of ways, leaving a pronounced knowledge gap regarding how it is understood and implemented in different contexts.
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Community Orchards for Food Sovereignty, Human Health, and Climate Resilience: Indigenous Roots and Contemporary Applications

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land tenure
Community orchards could play a valuable role as nature-based solutions to complex challenges we face today. In these unique plantings, a variety of nut- and fruit-producing trees and berry shrubs are often established together on public spaces to provide the community with healthy, fresh food. Interest in these plantings has been increasing in the United States, even more so since the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted vulnerabilities in our food systems. However, the roots of community orchards can be traced back to Indigenous foodways which have persisted for millennia.
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Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Diversity and Life Zone for Uncontacted Indigenous People: Deforestation Hotspots in the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuadorian Amazon

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
United States of America, Ecuador
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
land tenure
Land use and land cover change (LULC) is an essential component for the monitoring environmental change and managing natural resources in areas of high natural and cultural biodiversity, such as the Amazon biome. This study was conducted in in the northern Amazon of Ecuador, specifically in the Diversity and Life Zone (DLZ) of the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve (YBR). The general aim was to investigate the territorial dynamics of land use/land cover changes to support policies for environmental and sociocultural protection in the DLZ.
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Opportunities and Challenges for Intensive Silviculture in Alberta, Canada

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Canada
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land tenure
Intensive silviculture is practiced in many parts of the world but is rare in the public forests of western Canada. Here, we make the argument that intensive silviculture could be justified in Alberta but has not been implemented due to philosophies and policy decisions by foresters from government, industry and academia. These include adherence to long rotations, management goals that are aimed at sustained total volume yield rather than economic value, limitations in the types of stands that are allowed to be regenerated and models that do not include intensive silviculture options.
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Development of a Land Use Carbon Inventory for Agricultural Soils in the Canadian Province of Ontario

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
France, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, Australia, New Zealand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land management
Globally, agricultural soils are being evaluated for their role in climate change regulation as a potential sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through sequestration of organic carbon as soil organic matter. Scientists and policy analysts increasingly seek to develop programs and policies which recognize the importance of mitigation of climate change and insurance of ecological sustainability when managing agricultural soils.
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Acceleration of Soil Erosion by Different Land Uses in Arid Lands above 10Be Natural Background Rates: Case Study in the Sonoran Desert, USA

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
land degradation
Land use changes often lead to soil erosion, land degradation, and environmental deterioration. However, little is known about just how much humans accelerate erosion compared to natural background rates in non-agricultural settings, despite its importance to knowing the magnitude of soil degradation. The lack of understanding of anthropogenic acceleration is especially true for arid regions. Thus, we used 10Be catchment averaged denudation rates (CADRs) to obtain natural rates of soil erosion in and around the Phoenix metropolitan region, Arizona, United States.
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La Palma Aceitera desde la Palabra de las Mujeres

Diagnóstico de la palma aceitera (Elais guineensis Jacq.) y sus efectos en los territorios de Chiapas

Reports & Research
August, 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico, Northern America
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
land grabbing
palm oil industries
women
El monocultivo de la Palma Aceitera ha crecido de manera exponencial en el estado de Chiapas, sobre todo en los últimos 20 años. En la actualidad, conforme datos oficiales, se estima que el 43.74% de palma aceitera sembrada en México, se encuentra en Chiapas. Esta situación, ha traído graves consecuencias para la vida de los pueblos y mujeres indígenas.
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Mapping and monitoring of the land use/cover changes in the wider area of Itanos, Crete, using very high resolution EO imagery with specific interest in archaeological sites

Reports & Research
March, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land
monitoring
Archaeological site mapping is important for both understanding the history and protecting the sites from excavation during developmental activities. As archaeological sites are generally spread over a large area, use of high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery is becoming increasingly applicable in the world. The main objective of this study is to map the land cover of the Itanos area of Crete and of its changes, with specific focus on the detection of the landscape’s archaeological features.
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Covid-19 pandemic and harmful policies push Brazil into an environmental crisis

Reports & Research
January, 2021
Brazil, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
indigenous peoples' lands
protected areas
Strong evidence indicates that the Brazilian government is taking advantage of the confusion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to speed-up a wide-ranging environmental setback. We present a timeline of policies and acts taken by the current federal administration against the environment during the pandemic and discuss their consequences. The unprecedented amount of measures affecting environmental policies is especially intended to weaken deforestation control and transparency of environmental agencies, and allow the expansion of harmful activities (e.g.