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What restrains Ethiopian NGOs to participate in the development of policies for natural resource management?

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Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018

By law, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ethiopia are severely restricted in their activities towards policy development. In this study we explore to what extent these restrictions have affected NGOs in Natural Resource Management in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia.

Property-level direct and indirect deforestation for soybean production in the Amazon region of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2018
Brazil
United States of America

Brazil’s Soy Moratorium solidified the world’s largest traders’ commitment to stop soybean purchases from production areas deforested after July 2006. The aim was to remove deforestation from the soybean supply-chain and halt one of the main drivers of forest loss in the Amazon biome. In this study, we investigated changes in deforestation at the property-level for the period 2004 to 2014.

Compliance with Planning Regulations in Hazardous Areas and its impacts. A Case of Msasani Bonde la Mpunga in Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania

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Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2018
Tanzania

 Most of the cities and urban centres of developing nations, Tanzania inclusive are faced with increased urbanization coupled with informal land development in non-designated areas including marginal and hazardous lands.

Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR

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Journal Articles & Books
August, 2018
Laos

Agricultural large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) is a process that is currently not captured by land change models. We present a novel land change modeling approach that includes processes governing LSLAs and simulates their interactions with other land systems.

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Semi-Arid Areas in India

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Reports & Research
July, 2018
India
Southern Asia

This detailed report summarises key findings from an extensive Regional Diagnostic Study (RDS) for South Asia. Despite intense analytical efforts at the sub-regional level, reliable downscaled data may not be available with current models. As well, the spatial scale of available downscaled climate products (Regional Climate Models) may preclude their use in local decision-making.

Exploring the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation for policy implications

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Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
China
Russia
United States of America

Cash crops have kept expanding at an accelerating rate across the globe during the last decades. It therefore requires elaborate efforts to examine the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation.

Direct and indirect loss of natural habitat due to built-up area expansion: A model-based analysis for the city of Wuhan, China

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Journal Articles & Books
May, 2018

Urbanization has been responsible for the loss of cropland worldwide, especially in China. To guarantee national food security, China has implemented a series of policies to protect cropland. One of these policies requires that one-hectare cropland should be reclaimed when urban expansion occupies one-hectare cropland.

GlobeLand30 shows little cropland area loss but greater fragmentation in China

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Journal Articles & Books
April, 2018

Understanding of cropland dynamics in a large geographical extent is mostly based on observations of area change, while the changes in landscape pattern are hardly assessed. The total amount of cropland in China has remained relatively stable in recent years, which might suggest there was little change.

Effects of changes in land use and climate on water availability of a tropical catchment

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Reports & Research
February, 2018
Indonesia

Land use changes such as deforestation and urbanization influence the hydrology of catchments and hence water availability. Together with climate change, land use changes can affect the frequency of floods or droughts and thus threaten local or regional socio-economic development.