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"Aqui (ainda) não tem meio ambiente”: políticas indígenas do conhecimento na fronteira Brasil-Guiana

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
South America, Brazil, French Guiana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
environment
indigenous peoples' lands
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
Este artigo trata das dinâmicas contemporâneas da comunicação interétnica entre povos indígenas e o universo de atores e discursos ambientalistas no Brasil. A etnografia do contexto local de comunidades que vivem na terra indígena Jacamim, situada em Roraima, na fronteira com a Guiana, apresenta diferentes posicionamentos indígenas quanto às discussões sobre o conceito de “meio ambiente”. O objetivo é refletir sobre a ideia de “dialogia” que parece marcar as políticas indígenas do conhecimento diante das práticas hegemônicas de comensuração.
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4 Returns from landscape restoration. A systematic and practical approach to restore degraded landscapes.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land restoration
Why is it so important to restore degraded landscapes? It’s actually very simple.
We rely on healthy ecosystems to provide us with our food, water, clean air, climate stability, social and economic wealth; even our happiness and well-being. We only have to look at history to see the devastating consequences of not valuing or understanding ecosystems: whole civilizations have vanished after overexploiting their natural resources.
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A case study in upper Citarum River basinEffect of land use change driven by economic growth on sedimentation in river reach in Southeast Asia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Indonesia
land use
land use mapping
land policies
land economics
The recent rapid population and economic growth in Southeast Asia has brought about drastic socio-economic changes, such as urbanization and an agricultural shift. Urbanization consists of concentrating a population from a rural to an urban area and expanding urban areas, which pushes farmland outward. The current development diagram generates and accumulates disaster risk as an extensive risk; however, the relationship between developmental progress and the increase in disaster risk must be determined for sustainable development to be achieved.
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A case study on inclusiveness in forest management decision-making mechanisms: a comparison of certified and non-certified forests in the Republic of the Congo

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Congo, Middle Africa
Forest Tenure
forest land
land management
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A comparative assessment of land management approaches in Bhutan

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2017
Bhutan
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land management
land degradation
rural areas
agricultural land management
agriculture
perception of tenure security
farmers
Arable land in Bhutan is under serious threats of land degradation. Proper land management approach is needed to control soil erosion problems. This study is an attempt to characterize and document the conventional and the community-based land management approaches, applied in Chukha and Dagana districts, respectively. The study tried to make a comparative assessment of their social, economic and environmental impacts on the participating farmers.
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A Conceptual Model for Land System Dynamics as a Coupled Human–Environment System

Volume 6 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
This paper presents a conceptual model of land as a coupled human–environment system. Land use and land cover are incorporated as elements of the human and environment system respectively. Drivers and associated processes that influence land use, land cover, and land system dynamics are incorporated within a set of sub-systems. The model includes consideration of driving sub-systems as a set of capital funds and flows, and how these are influenced by linkages between processes in the human (socio-economic) and environment systems and sub-systems.
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A Critical Review of Indonesia’s Agrarian Reform Policy

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2017
Indonesia
land policies
land reform
agrarian reform
farmland
agriculture
Inequality in the agrarian structure in Indonesia remains a serious problem. Agrarian reform efforts have been the spirit of Indonesia since the enactment of the Basic Regulations on Agrarian Principles Act (UUPA). However, agrarian reform policies are still far from perfect. Since the reformation, the issue of agrarian reform, also known as land reform, regained its discourse space.
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A Descriptive Plantation Typology and Coding System to Aid the Analysis of Ecological and Socio-Economic Outcomes

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
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A fuzzy logic slope-form system for predictive soil mapping of a landscape-scale area with strong relief conditions

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Vietnam, Asia
land use
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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.