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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Chile, Argentina

    Notwithstanding the increasing cattle activity on the South American temperate forests, its impacts on the forests regeneration are yet poorly understood. We investigated the influence of cattle on the regeneration of monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria), an endangered conifer of the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina, on properties of small landowners and of timber companies. In thirty-six 100×20m plots, we recorded the number of seedlings and saplings from seeds and resprouts, the number of cattle dung pats and the density of parent trees.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Mexico

    Mexico’s 1992 agrarian counter-reforms opened up the country’s vast network of common property regimes, known as ejidos, to the possibility of privatization. This study investigates the relationship between dynamic common property regimes and deforestation in the wake of policy reform among eight ejidos in southeastern Mexico. Using institutional analyses, land use/land cover change (LULCC) analyses and a Forest Dependency Index, we examine how land tenure arrangements relate to land use and forest cover change patterns.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    Africa, Central America, South America

    The introduction to this set of papers highlights four challenges to the large-scale analysis of population growth at protected area edges in Africa and Latin America undertaken by George Wittemyer and colleagues in their 2008 paper published in Science. First, it raises questions about their sampling procedures, given national-level variation in systems of protected area designation and protected area estates. Second, it challenges the largely economic model of migration decisions that underlies their analysis.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil

    The oil palm is currently a major source of oil used worldwide for biofuel production and food. In Brazil, it is grown in high rainfall and high temperature regions. The high cost of this oil crop in the Brazilian Amazonia, combined with environmental and land ownership issues and the occurrence of diseases, has aroused considerable interest in growing it in other regions of the country, including the Savanna (Cerrado) Biome.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Northern America

    The most important land and water issues facing North America and the world – including land‐use patterns, water management, biodiversity protection, and climate adaptation – require innovative governance arrangements. Most of these issues need to be addressed at several scales simultaneously, ranging from local to global. They require action at the scale of large landscapes given that the geographic scope of the issues often transcends the legal and geographic reach of existing jurisdictions and institutions.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Canada

    Se realiza un recorrido por las principales prácticas forestales en Canadá y particularmente en la provincia de British Columbia. Se describen las principales formas de propiedad, gestión, aprovechamiento y conservación de los bosques. Finalmente, se repasan los objetivos de la Estrategia Forestal Canadiense, destacando aquellos que más difieren de los reflejados en la Estrategia Forestal Española.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    United States of America

    BACKGROUND: Pastoralism in the USA began coincidently with the initiation of profound ecological change resulting from colonization in the sixteenth century. Relationships between pastoralism and wildlife conservation in three different contexts of land tenure, environmental legacy, and geography are examined. RESULTS: On the federal rangelands of the Intermountain West, based on limited scientific information, wildlife policy has been interpreted to require separation of native bighorn sheep from livestock to prevent disease transmission.

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