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  1. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2023
    Italy

    The identification of mountainous areas suitable for chestnut stands for fruit production (CSFP) is raising increasing interest among researchers. This work aimed to (i) identify the areas suitable for CSFP shown in a land suitability map easy to read by land planners, and (ii) propose a remote-sensing-based methodology able to identify the lands currently under cultivation for CSFP. This study was conducted using the QGIS software for the Municipality of Castel del Rio, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy.

  2. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2023
    Portugal

    Spatial planning potential for reducing natural risks including wildfires is widely recognized. This research is focused on Portugal, a wildfire-prone country in southern Europe, where the competencies for spatial planning lie on four geographical levels: (i) the national and regional levels, with a strategic nature, set the general goals or the agenda of principles for spatial planning and (ii) the inter-municipal and municipal levels use regulative land-use planning instruments. There is a trend to bring together spatial planning and wildfire management policies.

  3. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    Sweden

    Recreation activity preferences in forest settings were explored in a scene preference study. The importance of type of human intervention and the level of biodiversity for preference and intention to engage in recreation activities were examined in a sample of forestry and social science students in Sweden. Results showed that forestry students displayed an almost equally strong preference for natural-looking scenes as for scenes with traces of recreation (e.g., paths), whereas social science students preferred recreational scenes the most.

  4. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2011
    Sweden

    Changing and competing land use, where we make use of a growing share of resources, potentially undermines the capacity of forests to provide multiple functions such as timber, biodiversity, recreation and pasture lands. The governance challenge is thus to manage trade-offs between human needs and, at the same time, maintain the capacities of forests to provide us with these needs. Sweden provides a clear example of this kind of challenge. Traditionally, timber has been the most apparent contribution of the forest to Swedish national interests.

  5. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Slovenia, Spain, Latvia

    Despite strong expectations regarding the role that forestry, with its multitude of potential benefits, could and should play in the ‘bio-economy’, little research has been done on the actual perceptions of influential actors on how to best address future forest land-use disputes. We want to shed light on whether and in which contexts expectations regarding the bio-economy, e.g., the strong role of markets, are likely.

  6. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2019
    Serbia

    In recent decades, Serbia has been undergoing a period of post-socialist transition that has significantly altered the value system underlying spatial development due to alteration of ownership frameworks and land use rights. In consequence, issues have arisen of how to strike a balance between the various interests involved in the distribution of spatial resources and how to control the outcomes of public policies. Land use planning has been identified as an efficient instrument for implementing the public policy value framework.

  7. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2020
    Brazil, Italy

    Deforestation and forest degradation driven by Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) are important sources of carbon emissions. Market globalization and trade liberalization policies reinforce this trend and risk deforestation to be embedded in global value chains. Due to the complexity of global production and trade systems, deforestation risk is also embedded in the supply chains of the products and sectors that are not direct deforestation drivers. Bovine leather is a commodity closely entangled in the debates about deforestation as it is a by-product of cattle.

  8. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2021
    Serbia

    Diffuse water pollution from agriculture (DWPA) is one of the major factors causing water pollution in Lakes Palić and Ludaš, the two largest shallow lakes of the Pannonian Basin in Serbia. These two lakes are protected under national and international law. On the basis of the number of strictly protected bird species, Ludaš Lake has been classified as a wetland of international importance since 1977 (Ramsar site 3YU002); in 2021, both lakes were nominated as potential Natura 2000 areas. Despite the degree of protection and ecological significance of the area, agricultural land prevails.

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    Ce rapport est la publication phare du PAM et le principal mécanisme de rapport de la Coalition Repas Scolaires. Il donne un aperçu de la manière dont les pays soutiennent leurs enfants grâce à des programmes d'alimentation scolaire efficaces.

    Reports & Research
    March, 2023
    Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania
    Ce rapport est la publication phare du PAM et le principal mécanisme de rapport de la Coalition Repas Scolaires. Il donne un aperçu de la manière dont les pays soutiennent leurs enfants grâce à des programmes d'alimentation scolaire efficaces.

    Le rapport sur la situation de l'alimentation scolaire dans le monde est publié tous les deux ans et utilise les meilleures sources de données disponibles pour fournir un aperçu de la couverture, des pratiques de mise en œuvre et des coûts des programmes de santé et de nutrition en milieu scolaire dans le monde entier.

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    Land

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2023
    Romania

    Brownfields are a real problem which affects the urban appearance of cities and the quality of life of their inhabitants. In Romania, industrial areas were mainly concentrated on the outskirts of large cities, in the immediate vicinity of residential areas. With the closing of factories and the additional population of the big cities, there was a need for expansion of residential areas with a social-economic function.

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