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2012 Global food policy report

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Africa, Northern America, Brazil, China, India, United States of America, Europe
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land policies
agriculture
women
agricultural and rural legislation
farmers
land governance
climate change
environment
rural development
sustainable development
natural disasters
sustainable land management
youth
property rights
land rights
land acquisitions
land degradation
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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30 Years of Land Cover Change in Connecticut, USA: A Case Study of Long-Term Research, Dissemination of Results, and Their Use in Land Use Planning and Natural Resource Conservation

Volume 9 Issue 8

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2020
Norway, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land cover
land cover change
land use
land-use planning
research
urbanization
Remotely sensed land cover data can be a tremendous resource to land use decision makers, yet there is often a disconnect between the worlds of remote sensing and local government. The Connecticut’s Changing Landscape project is focused on bridging this gap. The project analyzes changes to the state’s landscape using Landsat-derived 30-m land cover and cross-correlation analysis. It includes seven dates spanning 30 years, from 1985 to 2015.
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3D Digital Representation of Cadastral Data in Turkey—Apartments Case

Volume 9 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Norway, Turkey, United States of America
land
research
With the widespread use of three-dimensional (3D) geographic information technologies, studies for 3D digital representation of property units in cadasters have increased in recent years. In Turkey, a project named 3D City Models and Cadasters was initiated by the General Directorate of Land Registries and Cadasters in 2018. With this project, which is planned to last four years, it aims to create 3D models of individual units (apartments) in buildings and provide visual representations of these individual units with legal information.
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50 Years of Environmental Activism in Girona, Catalonia: From Case Advocacy to Regional Planning

Volume 9 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Spain, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
environment
Environmental activism, with decades of relevant presence already, is a fundamental element for the preservation of natural and cultural values. Theories around their bases, protagonists, methods, instruments and results proliferate in a period of obliged ecological transition. Here, we present an investigation in the region of Girona (Catalunya, Spain), with the main objective of reflecting on environmental activism and its singular impact on the territorial reality of this area.
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6th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning

Volume 9 Issue 11

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2020
United States of America, Norway
land
research
This editorial is an overview of a Special Issue of Land entitled “Selected Papers from the6th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Adapting and Expanding Contracting Cities.” This Special Issue of land contains six papers—most of which were presented at the 6th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning (Fábos et al. 2019) held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 28–30 March 2019.The Fábos conference theme was to explore the social and economic potential of linear green spaces in urban areas that are declining or expanding.
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A Bibliometric Analysis on Land Degradation: Current Status, Development, and Future Directions

Volume 9 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable land management
development
land degradation
Land degradation is a global issue receiving much attention currently. In order to objectively reveal the research situation of land degradation, bibliometrix and biblioshiny software packages have been used to conduct data mining and quantitative analysis on research papers in the fields of land degradation during 1990–2019 (data update time was 8 April 2019) in the Web of Science core collection database. The results show that: (1) during the past 20 years, the number of papers on land degradation has increased.
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A causal analysis framework for land-use change and the potential role of bioenergy policy

Land Use Policy Volume 59

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2016
Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
land use
research
We propose a causal analysis framework to increase understanding of land-use change (LUC) and the reliability of LUC models. This health-sciences-inspired framework can be applied to determine probable causes of LUC in the context of bioenergy. Calculations of net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for LUC associated with biofuel production are critical in determining whether a fuel qualifies as a biofuel or advanced biofuel category under regional (EU), national (US, UK), and state (California) regulations.
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A Comparative Analysis of a Detailed and Semi-Detailed Soil Mapping for Sustainable Land Management Using Conventional and Currently Applied Methodologies in Greece

Volume 9 Issue 5

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2020
Canada, Greece, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land management
sustainable land management
Two soil mapping methodologies at different scales applied in the same area were compared in order to investigate the potential of their combined use to achieve an integrated and more accurate soil description for sustainable land use management. The two methodologies represent the main types of soil mapping systems used and still applied in soil surveys in Greece. Diomedes Botanical Garden (DBG) (Athens, Greece) was used as a study area because past cartographic data of soil survey were available.
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A Conceptual Framework to Design Green Infrastructure: Ecosystem Services as an Opportunity for Creating Shared Value in Ground Photovoltaic Systems

Volume 9 Issue 8

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2020
Italy, Portugal, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
infrastructure
land use
This paper presents a conceptual framework that looks at photovoltaic systems in synergy with ecosystem services. The focus is to connect business success with social and ecological progress based on the operative concept of multifunctional land use. Such an approach attempts to harmonise the needs of the industrial processes of photovoltaic systems and the ecological and social needs of the landscape context. Different from the usual design of ground photovoltaic systems in farmlands or brownfields, a new framework is proposed, combining photovoltaic panels and vegetation.
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A Game Analysis of Farmland Expropriation Conflict in China under Multi-Dimensional Preference: Cooperation or Resistance?

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
China, Russia, United States of America
Urban Tenure
expropriation
farmland
land acquisitions
urbanization
The process of urbanization in China has been accompanied by the conflict of land expropriation, which is not conducive to social stability. Different from the previous angles and methods of studying the conflict of agricultural land expropriation, this study puts forward a new behavioral perspective on the basis of game theory, and constructs an evolutionary game model of the conflict of agricultural land expropriation in China from the perspective of multi-dimensional preference.