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1. Library Resource

   

   Unpacking the Pacific Urban Agenda: Resilience Challenges and Opportunities

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Octubre, 2017

   Melanesia, Micronesia (region), Micronesia, Polinesia, Polinesia Francesa

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Cambio climático

   Medio ambiente

   Desastres naturales

   Planificación urbana

   Urbanización

   Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are often cited as being the most vulnerable to the future impacts of a changing climate. Furthermore, being located in the ‘Pacific Rim of Fire’, PICs have long been exposed to the impacts of a range of natural and climate-related extreme events—such as earthquakes and cyclones—and are considered to be amongst the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters. The physical vulnerability of Pacific towns and cities is further exaggerated by development deficits, geographical isolation, weak governance, and complex issues of land tenure.

2. Library Resource

   

   Collaborative Research on the Ecology and Management of the ‘Wulo’ Monsoon Rainforest in Wunambal Gaambera Country, North Kimberley, Australia

   Volume 6 Issue 4

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Diciembre, 2017

   Australia

   Gestión de tierras agricolas

   Investigación

   Indigenous groups are increasingly combining traditional ecological knowledge and Western scientific approaches to inform the management of their lands. We report the outcomes of a collaborative research project focused on key ecological questions associated with monsoon vine thickets in Wunambal Gaambera country (Kimberley region, Western Australia). The study mapped monsoon rainforests and analysed the environmental correlates of their current distribution, as well as the historical drivers of patch dynamics since 1949.

3. Library Resource

   

   Social resistance to coal seam gas development in the Northern Rivers region of Eastern Australia: Proposing a diamond model of social license to operate

   Land Use Policy Volume 69

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Diciembre, 2017

   Australia, Estados Unidos de América

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Desarrollo

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   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’.

4. Library Resource

   

   Analysing behavioural differences of farm households: An example of income diversification strategies based on European farm survey data

   Land Use Policy Volume 62

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Marzo, 2017

   Australia, Canadá, Estados Unidos de América

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Hogares

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   Desarrollo rural

   Different forms of income diversification represent important strategies of farmers to either cope with the changing economic framework conditions or to valorise given territorial potentialities. Nevertheless, the decision to diversify economic activities on or off the farm will heavily depend on the agricultural business and household characteristics. Our study used a survey of 2154 farms from eleven European regions to identify distinct farm types in order to investigate differences regarding the willingness to diversify in the future.

5. Library Resource

   

   Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation

   Land Use Policy Volume 68

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Noviembre, 2017

   Nueva Zelandia

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   Ordenación de tierras sostenible

   Problems in agriculture and land use are increasingly recognised as complex, uncertain, operating at multiple levels (field to global value chains) and involving social, economic, institutional, and technological change. This has implications for how projects navigate complexity to achieve impact. However, few studies have systematically evaluated how project actors engage with other actors to configure capabilities and resources across multiple levels in agricultural innovation systems (AIS), from the individual to the network, to mobilise and build systemic innovation capacity.

6. Library Resource

   

   The Australian experience in using tenders for conservation

   Land Use Policy Volume 63

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Abril, 2017

   Australia

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Gestión de tierras agricolas

   Biodiversidad

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   Over the past 15 years Australia has been trialling conservation tenders and other market based instrument approaches to generate environmental outcomes, particularly on private lands. The best known of these is the BushTender auction for vegetation protection in Victoria, begun in the early 2000s. Subsequently, nearly 100 other tenders for biodiversity protection have been run in Australia with substantial variations in application and methodology generated by a mix of both intended design and case study differences.

7. Library Resource

   

   Landscape Structure and Mature Forest Biodiversity in Wet Eucalypt Forests: A Spatial Analysis of Timber Production Areas in South-Eastern Australia

   Forests

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Enero, 2017

   Australia

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Tenencia Urbana

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Fire and timber harvesting can diminish the extent of older forests in the near term. The amount and configuration of mature and regenerating forest in the landscape (landscape structure) influences habitat suitability for mature-forest-associated species. We applied spatial analysis to describe the landscape structure of three wet eucalypt forest landscapes in south–eastern Australia and used the results from empirical biodiversity studies to frame interpretation of possible impacts on habitat suitability.

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   Estimating Large Area Forest Carbon Stocks—A Pragmatic Design Based Strategy

   Forests

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Enero, 2017

   Australia

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Pastizales, Tierras secas y Pastoreo

   Tenencia Urbana

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Reducing uncertainty in forest carbon estimates at local and regional scales has become increasingly important due to the centrality of the terrestrial carbon cycle in issues of climate change. In Victoria, Australia, public natural forests extend over 7.2 M ha and constitute a significant and important carbon stock. Recently, a wide range of approaches to estimate carbon stocks within these forests have been developed and applied. However, there are a number of data and estimation limitations associated with these studies.