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A LUTA PELA EFETIVAÇÃO DOS DIREITOS ÉTNICOS E TERRITORIAIS DAS COMUNIDADES QUILOMBOLAS EM CONFLITOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS

REFLEXÕES CRÍTICAS SOBRE A ATUAÇÃO EXTENSIONISTA NA DEFESA DOS DIREITOS ÉTNICOS E TERRITORIAIS DA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA DE QUEIMADAS

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
disturbance
extractive industries
land conflicts
land dispute
land governance
land inheritance rights
land rights
local communities
mining
right of first occupancy
territory
Este artigo possui o objetivo de analisar, criticamente, a ação extensionista promovida na defesa dos direitos étnicos e territoriais da comunidade quilombola de Queimadas, no procedimento administrativo para a certificação da desconformidade do empreendimento minerário denominado “Projeto Serro”, à legislação de uso e ocupação do solo do Município do Serro.
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A methodological approach for assessing cross-site landscape change: Understanding socio-ecological systems

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
land reform
poverty
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A misfit in policy to protect Russia’s black soil region. An institutional analytical lens applied to the ban on burning of crop residues

Land Use Policy Volume 67

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
Russia’s region of Chernozem and Kastanozem soils in Western-Siberia, where this study focused on the Kulunda steppe, has great potential as a carbon sink, particularly if the current widespread practice of burning crop residue can be replaced with conservation tillage practices that will return the residue to the soil. Environmentally-oriented land use policy measures have been introduced that could accomplish that goal. But these measures are quite recent, and face obstacles in the prevailing post-socialist institutional environment and in cultural norms.
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A NEW MODEL OF LAND SYSTEM IN UKRAINE WITH REGARD TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2017
Ukraine
cadastres
land cover mapping
During the implementation of land reform in independent Ukraine land system changed twice. Today, due to the decentralization of power is his search for a new model for the future, as outlined in this study. Also note that when we formulated the concept refers to the land system - land system, ie a set of measures for the territorial organization of land and other natural resources, land relations, defined system of ownership and use of land, as well as the principles of the territory.
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A proposed framework for participatory forest restoration in semiarid areas of North Africa: Participatory forest restoration

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Africa
Forest Landscape Restoration
environment
forest conservation
forest land
land governance
land use
land-use planning
natural resources management
Ecological restoration is a suitable tool to revert land degradation in semiarid areas. Social participation is increasingly considered as a guarantee for the long-term success and sustainability of restoration projects. In rural areas of North African countries, experiences of participatory restoration are still not frequent, and poverty and illiteracy with top-down approaches boost land-use conflicts and raise skepticism toward restoration programs.
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A regional scale ecological risk framework for environmental flow evaluations

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
South Africa, Kenya
natural resources management
water management
Recent developments in Environmental Flow (E-flow) frameworks advocate holistic, regional scale, probabilistic E-flow assessments that consider flow and non-flow drivers of change in socio-ecological context as best practice. Regional Scale ecological risk assessments of multiple sources, stressors and diverse ecosystems that address multiple social and ecological endpoints, have been undertaken internationally at different spatial scales using the relative-risk model since the mid 1990's.
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A segregated assessment of total carbon stocks by the mode of origin and ecological functions of forests: implication on restoration potential

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
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A spatio-temporal analysis of forest loss related to cocaine trafficking in Central America

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Land & Corruption
corruption
deforestation
forest land
A growing body of evidence suggests that criminal activities associated with drug trafficking networks are a progressively important driver of forest loss in Central America. However, the scale at which drug trafficking represents a driver of forest loss is not presently known. We estimated the degree to which narcotics trafficking may contribute to forest loss using an unsupervised spatial clustering of 15 spatial and temporal forest loss patch metrics developed from global forest change data.
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A Stakeholders’ Analysis of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes: Contextualities, Commonalities and Concerns

Volume 6 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece
land stakeholders
This study aims at demonstrating and critically assessing high-level landscape stakeholders’ perceptions and understandings of landscape-related issues, threats and problems, in the Eastern Mediterranean, through a purposive comparative research survey of four case studies: Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon.
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A synergy cropland of China by fusing multiple existing maps and statistics

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Eastern Asia, Asia, China
farmland
land use mapping