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   Addressing Climate Change at the State and Local Level: Using Land Use Controls to Reduce Automobile Emissions

   Sustainability

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Enero, 2010

   Estados Unidos de América

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tenencia Urbana

   Ordenación territorial

   Automobiles are a major source of CO2 emissions. Because there is no immediate technological fix to reduce these emissions, the most promising current strategy is to promote less automobile use. In the United States, this is difficult because federal programs such as the interstate highway system and local land use planning and regulation have encouraged suburban sprawl. In 2006, the state of California passed legislation to roll back greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. This legislation did not link the roll back target with land use policies.

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   Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Marzo, 2009

   India, Brasil, China, Estados Unidos de América

   Tierras

   We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute) model. The model incorporates the trade-offs between biofuel, feed, and food production and consumption and international feedback effects of the emergence through world commodity prices and trade.

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   Moving forward

   Informes e investigaciones

   Diciembre, 2009

   Angola, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, Estados Unidos de América, Congo, Comoras, Camerún, Uzbekistán, Suiza, Kenya, Zambia, Dinamarca, Rwanda, Filipinas, Kirguistán, Italia, Brasil, Túnez, Argentina, Sudán, Papua Nueva Guinea, República Checa

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tenencia de Bosques

   ciencias forestales

   Ordenación de recursos naturales

   Ordenación de tierras sostenible

   Tierras forestales

   Forests, trees and woodlands cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area. They are a crucial source of food and income for more than a billion people around the globe. They provide a variety of wood and non-wood products and vital ecosystem services – preventing erosion from wind and water, preserving water quality, shading crops and livestock, absorbing carbon which contributes to countering climate change, and providing habitat for many species of plants and animals, thus helping to conserve the planet’s biological diversity.

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   Land Surveyors Act (S.N.S. 2010, c. 38).

   Legislación

   Enero, 2010

   Canadá

   geómetra

   Catastros

   Registro de tierras

   Propiedad pública

   derecho agrario

   The present Act provides for the orderly carrying out of professional land surveying in the Province of Nova Scotia.

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   Evaluating Anthropogenic Risk of Grassland and Forest Habitat Degradation using Land-Cover Data

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Septiembre, 2009

   Estados Unidos de América

   Praderas

   Utilización de la tierra

   Tenencia de la tierra

   The effects of landscape context on habitat quality are receiving increased attention in conservation biology. The objective of this research is to demonstrate a landscape-level approach to mapping and evaluating the anthropogenic risks of grassland and forest habitat degradation by examining habitat context as defined by intensive anthropogenic land uses at multiple spatial scales.

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   River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Diciembre, 2009

   Jordania, Sudáfrica, México, Túnez, Tanzania, Irán, India, China, Estados Unidos de América, Australia
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   River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Diciembre, 2009

   Jordania, Sudáfrica, México, Túnez, Tanzania, Irán, India, China, Estados Unidos de América, Australia
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   Overcoming the Irrational Land Use in Africa and Other Regions of the World - A Critique to the Myths of Nobel Laureate Schultz and Nominee Hirschman

   Documentos de conferencias e informes

   Diciembre, 2009

   Suiza, Estados Unidos de América, Alemania, Dinamarca, Italia, Ghana, Noruega, Europa, Asia, África, América central, América Septentrional, América del Sur, Oceanía

   The paper reveals that ever since the 1950s, after the first land reform of distributing landownership (or possession under public ownership) to small farmers, the irrational and polyopolisticland use by able-bodied part-time and absent small farmers earning higher off-farm income butunwilling to lease the under-producing land beyond their family consumption need to full-timefarmers, has been a global obstacle with both public and private land ownership, traditional andmodern agriculture, fragmented small and consolidatorily enlarged land, low and high incomeeconomies, food under-self-suffi

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   Agribusiness concentration, intellectual property, and the prospects for rural economic benefits from the emerging biofuel economy

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Diciembre, 2009

   Estados Unidos de América

   United States policy makers are promoting bio-fuels as an economic development opportunity, especially for rural America. A USDA study claims that developments in energy production from biomass could increase profits for agricultural commodity producers. However, as William Heffernan and his colleagues have demonstrated, concentration in the agrifood sector limits the economic benefits going to the commodity producers.

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    Are Vegetation——Environment Relationships Different Between Herbaceous and Woody Groundcover Plants in Barrens with Shallow Soils?

    Artículos de revistas y libros

    Diciembre, 2009

    Estados Unidos de América

    The extent to which woody vegetation exhibits more expansive community structures and different relationships with environmental variables than herbaceous plants is poorly understood in savannas and barrens worldwide, especially those with shallow soils. We explored this question in oak barrens, which are savanna habitats characterized by shallow soils, in southern Ohio, USA. Groundcover plant aerial cover and environmental data were collected using 75 randomly located 1-m2 quadrats in 3 barrens.