Cada dos años, desde 2011, Rimisp – Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural, publica su Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y Desigualdad, como un aporte a la discusión sobre estas temáticas desde la perspectiva particular de la desigualdad territorial, una de las aristas menos abordadas del problema, y que impacta con especial fuerza a los sectores rurales de América Latina.

El presente documento ODS Y DESARROLLO TERRITORIAL. Medición Experimental en el Norte Amazónico de Bolivia es un ejercicio de aplicación rigurosa de ocho de los 17 ODS, en un territorio delimitado, por una parte, para demostrar la utilidad de la medición y, por otra parte, para ejemplificar en la práctica las dificultades que se presentan y las respuestas metodológi- cas que es necesario hacer durante esa aplicación en espacios locales subnacionales.

En 2020, las emisiones de carbono se han reducido drásticamente a causa de las restricciones impuestas por la pandemia de COVID-19. Sin embargo, la crisis climática, desencadenada por la acumulación de emisiones en la atmósfera a lo largo del tiempo, ha seguido agudizándose. Este informe detalla los resultados de nuevas investigaciones que ponen de manifiesto cómo, en las últimas décadas, la desigualdad extrema de las emisiones de carbono nos ha dejado al borde del colapso climático.

Innovation is an inevitable way to enhance regional competitiveness, promote urbanization and achieve sustainable development. The sci-tech park is one of the main land use types in the construction of a new town and the critical space carriers of urbanization. This study focuses on the correlation between higher education institutions (HEIs) innovation and sci-tech enterprises (STEs) development, and the Hangzhou West Hi-tech Corridor as a case study.

Astrotourism is considered to be a modern form of ecotourism. The main resource for astrotourism is a high-quality night sky, but this is very sensitive to natural as well as anthropogenic factors; for example, land utilization and expansion of urban areas often cause the negative effect of light pollution.

Since 1991, Moldova has carried out a wide range of radical reforms affecting its social and economic system. The land reform, which was practically completed in 2000, created over 1 million landowners among the rural population. Many of them entrusted their land to managers of newly created corporate farms. Others used their privately owned land to establish independent family farms. The creation of independent family farms (so-called "peasant farms") was one of the primary goals of the land reform. More than 280,000 peasant farms have been created, averaging 1,86 hectares in size.

Environmental regulation is an important means of restraining enterprises and protecting the environment. Rationalization of environmental regulatory policies can promote high-quality regional economic development. The optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure has an intermediary effect on the impact of environmental regulations on the high-quality development of the regional economy.

As new industries emerge in rural areas, land use change can have important implications for affected communities. In-turn, social responses to developments can have important implications for industry. The idea that communities may, or may not, approve of landuse change has been conceptualised in the literature on ‘social license to operate’.

Sustainable land management is essential to meeting the global challenge of securing soil and water resources that can support an ever increasing population. In Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, population growth is forecast to increase from 1.5 to 2.5 million by 2040 which will put immense pressure on the region's soil resources.

In this paper we examine the question of whether and how municipal landscape plans exert a positive influence on and/or correlate with selected aspects of the landscape. To this end, a representative sample of municipal landscape plans in Germany and a statistical-quantitative evaluation approach are used to uncover correlations between planning and landscape development. As a result, we can show that municipalities which draw up a landscape plan have a higher proportion of natural areas and a lower hemeroby index, i.e. a lower level of human influence.

The restoration and improvement of natural capital (NC) in rural areas represents one of the main objectives of the EU’s rural development policy (RDP). In addition to creating environmental and biodiversity benefits, NC represents an important territorial asset and a basis to generate socio-economic second-order effects for economic competitiveness and rural viability. However, the regional capability to valorise NC depends on the specific regional context, needs and potentials, as well as targeted policy support.

Sustainable land management is of utmost importance in Ethiopia and relies on Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures collectively implemented by smallholders through participatory processes. This paper contributes systematic evidence on how SWC strategies are implemented and how participation is operationalized.