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1. Library Resource

   

   Functional Land Management for managing soil functions: A case-study of the trade-off between primary productivity and carbon storage in response to the intervention of drainage systems in Ireland

   Land Use Policy Volume 47

   Peer-reviewed publication

   September, 2015

   United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land management

   land use

   research

   Globally, there is growing demand for increased agricultural outputs. At the same time, the agricultural industry is expected to meet increasingly stringent environmental targets. Thus, there is an urgent pressure on the soil resource to deliver multiple functions simultaneously. The Functional Land Management framework (Schulte et al., 2014) is a conceptual tool designed to support policy making to manage soil functions to meet these multiple demands. This paper provides a first example of a practical application of the Functional Land Management concept relevant to policy stakeholders.

2. Library Resource

   

   Hybrid land tenure administration in Dunoon, South Africa

   Land Use Policy Volume 90

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2020

   French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Central African Republic, Southern Africa, South Africa, United Kingdom

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land registration

   land use

   land tenure

   research

   Hybrid land tenure administration occurs in a number of South Africa’s state-subsidised housing projects and in the informal settlements from which the housing beneficiaries tend to be drawn. Ownership is the tenure form in most of these housing projects. Under ownership the law only recognises registered land transactions. Non-government tenure administration in Dunoon was organised by street and area committees that are part of the local South African National Civics Association (SANCO) branch, a community based organisation (CBO).

3. Library Resource

   

   New knowledge networks of small-scale farmers in Europe’s periphery

   Land Use Policy Volume 63

   Peer-reviewed publication

   April, 2017

   Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, United States of America, Europe

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   farmers

   land use

   research

   scale

   In this paper we assess the types of knowledge networks utilised by small-scale farmers in four case studies (located in Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom). We focus on knowledge acquired to inform three new activities being undertaken by study participants: agricultural production, subsidy access and regulatory compliance, and farm diversification (specifically agritourism).

4. Library Resource

   

   Perspectives on agriculturally used drained peat soils: Comparison of the socioeconomic and ecological business environments of six European regions

   Land Use Policy Volume 90

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2020

   United Kingdom, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   land use

   research

   In Northern, Eastern and Central European countries, peat soils drained for agriculture are a considerable source of greenhouse gas emissions. Since emissions from this source have high mitigation potential, they will likely be a focus of the European Union’s future climate goals. We describe and compare the similarities and differences in the socioeconomic and ecological business environment that policy makers, planners and farmers are confronted with when developing tailored proposals for low emission land use alternatives on peat land.

5. Library Resource

   

   Projected impacts of increased uptake of source control mitigation measures on agricultural diffuse pollution emissions to water and air

   Land Use Policy Volume 62

   Peer-reviewed publication

   March, 2017

   United Kingdom, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   agriculture

   land use

   research

   water

   A multi-pollutant modelling framework for England and Wales is described. This includes emissions of nitrate, phosphorus and sediment to water and ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide to air, and has been used to characterise baseline (no uptake of on-farm measures) and business-as-usual (BAU) annual pollutant losses, comparing these with the loss under a range of new policies aimed at increasing the uptake of relevant source control measures to 95% across England and Wales.

6. Library Resource

   

   Public-private partnership in enhancing farmers’ adaptation to drought: Insights from the Lujiang Flatland in the Nu River (Upper Salween) valley, China

   Land Use Policy Volume 71

   Peer-reviewed publication

   February, 2018

   Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   climate change

   farmers

   land use

   research

   sustainable land management

   Agriculture is an important type of land use but suffers from drought, especially under global climate change scenarios. Although government is a major actor in helping farmers to adapt to drought, lack of funds has constrained its efforts. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism has been widely applied in urban infrastructure development to raise fund for public goods and services, but very few studies explored its role in rural areas.

7. Library Resource

   

   The challenge of managing soil functions at multiple scales: An optimisation study of the synergistic and antagonistic trade-offs between soil functions in Ireland

   Land Use Policy Volume 58

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2016

   United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land use

   livestock

   research

   scale

   Recent forecasts show a need to increase agricultural production globally by 60% from 2005 to 2050, in order to meet a rising demand from a growing population. This poses challenges for scientists and policy makers to formulate solutions on how to increase food production and simultaneously meet environmental targets such as the conservation and protection of water, the conservation of biodiversity, and the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.