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Peninsula Effects on Birds in a Coastal Landscape: Are Coves More Species Rich than Lobes?

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Peer-reviewed publication
Octubre, 2012
Estados Unidos de América

Peninsula effects - decreasing richness with increasing distance along peninsula lobes - have been identified for
many taxa on large peninsulas. Peninsula effects are caused by differences in colonization and extinction predicted
by island biogeography or by environmental gradients along the peninsula. We compared species-area regressions

Impact of wild herbivorous mammals and birds on the altitudinal and northern treeline ecotones

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Peer-reviewed publication
Octubre, 2012
Europa
América Septentrional

Wild herbivorous mammals may damage treeline vegetation an cause soil erosion at a local scale. In many high
mountain areas of Europe and North America, large numbers of red deer have become a threat to the maintenance
of high-elevation forests and attempts to restore the climatic treeline. In northern Fennoscandia, overgrazing by

2012 Global Hunger Index

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Reports & Research
Octubre, 2012
Myanmar
Global

The Challenge of hunger: ensuring sustainable food security under land, water and energy stresses..."World hunger, according to the 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI), has
declined somewhat since 1990 but remains “serious.” The global
average masks dramatic differences among regions and countries.

Desigualdades territoriales y exclusión social del pueblo mapuche en Chile: situación en la comuna de Ercilla desde un enfoque de derechos

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Reports & Research
Octubre, 2012
Chile

El documento representa el esfuerzo conjunto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y la Alianza Territorial Mapuche (ATM) destinado a trazar un panorama sociodemográfico y socioambiental de la población mapuche de la comuna de Ercilla.

Revising the Land Law to Enable Sustainable Development in Vietnam

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Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
Septiembre, 2012
Viet Nam
Asia oriental
Oceanía

Vietnam's rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the last two decades benefitted from the policy and legal reforms embodied in the Land Laws of 1987, 1993 and 2003 and subsequent related legal acts. This note outlines reforms related to four main themes.

Swiss Tree Lines – a GIS-Based Approximation

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Peer-reviewed publication
Septiembre, 2012
Suiza

Mountain timber lines are relevant in the context of land abandonment and climate change. For Switzerland,
GIS-compliant delimitations of the tree line and the forest line are still lacking. Recent high-resolution landcover
information offers new possibilities for GIS-based approaches. In a Swiss-wide study, an analysis based

A Participatory GIS Approach for Assessing Land Suitability for Rainwater Harvesting in an Arid Rangeland Environment

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Journal Articles & Books
Septiembre, 2012
Jordan
Western Asia

The dry rangelands of West Asia and North Africa are fragile and severely degraded due to low rainfall and mismanagement of natural resources. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) interventions are used to increase soil moisture content, vegetation cover, and productivity. However, adoption of rainwater harvesting by communities is slow.

Ethiopia—Strengthening Land Administration Program (ELAP)

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Reports & Research
Agosto, 2012
Etiopía

1 Background The Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Land Tenure and Administration Study (PALTAS) was launched because of the compelling need to identify and recommend policy that clarify and strengthen the land rights of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists and put in place appropriate administrative mechanisms to enforce their rights.

La aculturización guaraní y la explotación laboral rural del norte de la provincia de Salta : tierra, conflictos y expectativas

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Reports & Research
Agosto, 2012
Argentina

El trabajo sostiene que sólo en base un análisis multidisciplinario que incluya la perspectiva de los guaraníes como ciudadanos, se podrá cambiar la realidad de pobreza y sumisión, permitiendo discutir por fuera de las situaciones que los llevaron al escenario actual, sin caer en el paternalismo y/o asistencialismo aculturador, que permite repetir modelos de sumisión hacia adentro de las propia