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Drastic growth of urban populations has caused expansion of peri-urban areas—the transitional zone between a city and its hinterland.
Paddy rice agriculture affects food supply, climate, water, biodiversity, and ecosystems. It varies substantially over time and space, for example, continuous expansion in northeastern China and rapid loss in southern China in the past decades.
This document presents the Strategic Plan of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas for the period from 2017 to 2026.
Context: Recent conceptual developments in ecosystem services research have revealed the need to elucidate the complex and unintended relationships between humans and the environment if we are to better understand and manage ecosystem services in practice.
Modelling socio-ecological systems, in which social and ecological systems interact each other and co-evolve, are useful for supporting decisions in managing landscape ecosystems.
Implementation of land management policies influences land use and hence
causes environmental change. Taking the Ordos rangelands in China as a case
study, this paper explores the potential of remote sensing to assess in dryland
Efforts to thwart the trafficking of conflict commodities to finance wars constitute an ongoing endeavour. As specific approaches become effective for certain commodities, belligerent actors pursue new forms of exploitation.
The purposes of these Measures are to intensify the protection of arable land, regulate the examination on the balance between the occupation and supplement of arable land and supervise the entities that occupy arable land for non-agricultural construction.
These Measures aim at strengthening land administration and control, enforcing the control of land uses, protecting cultivated land, and properly controlling the total amount of land for construction use.The text provides for the compilation, issuance, implementation, supervision and assessment o
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