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  1. Library Resource
    Combating Land Degradation and Desertification: The Land-Use Planning Quandary cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2019
    Global

    Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of land systems, and secure their sustainability. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) underlines the critical role of appropriate local action to address the global threat of land degradation and desertification (LDD) and calls for the use of local and regional LUP to combat LDD and achieve land degradation neutrality. The paper explores the challenges of putting this call into practice.

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    What Awaits Myanmar’s Uplands Farmers? Lessons Learned from Mainland Southeast Asia cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2019
    Myanmar

    Mainland Southeast Asia (MSA) has seen sweeping upland land use changes in the past decades, with transition from primarily subsistence shifting cultivation to annual commodity cropping. This transition holds implications for local upland communities and ecosystems. Due to its particular political regime, Myanmar is at the tail of this development.

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    Analysis of High Temporal Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Trajectories cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2019
    Brazil

    In this study, methods, originally developed to assess life course trajectories, are explored in order to evaluate land change through the analysis of sequences of land use/cover. Annual land cover maps which describe land use/land cover change for the 1985–2017 period for a large region in Northeast Brazil were analyzed. The most frequent sequences, the entropy and the turbulence of the land trajectories, and the average time of permanence were computed. Clusters of similar sequences were determined using different dissimilarity measures.

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    Expropriation of Real Property in Kigali City: Scoping the Patterns of Spatial Justice cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2019
    Rwanda

    The key question in this article is the extent to which current real property expropriation practices in Kigali city promote spatial justice. Current studies focus on the ambiguous manner in which real property valuation had been regulated by the expropriation law of 2007, leading to unfair compensation and various conflicts between expropriating agencies and expropriated people. Following its amendment in 2015, the law currently provides clearer procedures for valuation and fair compensation, based on the market prices.

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    Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2019
    Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias. The highly complex, politicized realities of work in conflict- and post-conflict settings often require quick, pragmatic and results-oriented decisions, the foundations of which remain frequently implicit. Such decisions might follow an intrinsic logic or situational pragmatism rather than intensive deliberation.

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