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   Energy crops, the edible oil processing industry and land use paradigms in Romania–An economic analysis

   Land Use Policy Volume 71

   Peer-reviewed publication

   February, 2018

   Romania

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land use

   research

   The purpose of this research is to explore the issue of the land used for sunflower and its production as raw material for edible oil processing industry in Romania. The relations between consumption, as main component of demand, and production and import, as sources of supply, on the sunflower oil market are investigated. The case study of the edible oil market is discussed because of the alarming growth in imports after Romania’s accession to the European Union and, furthermore, because of sunflower crop implications on land use in the context of the food vs. fuel competition.

2. Library Resource

   

   Land governance for development in Central and Eastern Europe: Land fragmentation and land consolidation as part of Sustainable Development Goals

   Conference Papers & Reports

   March, 2018

   Eastern Europe, Western Europe

   Land & Investments

   land administration

   sustainable development

   land policies

   land consolidation

   Most transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) face enormous challenges in developing a viable land structure, requiring a set of measures which is unprecedented in its scale and intensity to speed up this process. Analysis of policy initiatives in CEE countries illustrates that options for solving fragmentation and small scale of farms have concentrated on particular instruments like land consolidation and land banking.

3. Library Resource

   

   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.

4. Library Resource

   

   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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   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.