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A América Latina frente ao Governo da COVID-19: desigualdades, crises, resistência

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2022
Latin America and the Caribbean, Central America, South America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
COVID-19
land governance
environment
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
A COVID-19 é um acontecimento liminal. Repentinamente, reconfigurou a organização da vida quotidiana, colocou a ordem política à prova e levou à recessão econômica. Confinamento, máscaras, distanciamento social, todas essas medidas preventivas que visam conter o risco de contágio dissolveram formas tácitas da socialização, as quais respondem por boa parte da familiaridade do mundo social que habitamos.
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A Comparative Analysis of Drivers Impacting Urban Densification for Cross Regional Scenarios in Brussels Metropolitan Area

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Belgium
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land policies
Our research aims at unveiling the various drivers that can have an impact on urban densification. Unlike the usual logistic modelling techniques, our study considers multi-level built-up densities ranging from low to high built-up density. The commonly used dataset for a number of present studies is based on raster images. Our study uses vector-based cadastral data to create maps for the years 2000, 2010 and 2020 in order to better trace densification.
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A Comparative Study of Shallow Machine Learning Models and Deep Learning Models for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Based on Imbalanced Data

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land policies
A landslide is a type of geological disaster that poses a threat to human lives and property. Landslide susceptibility assessment (LSA) is a crucial tool for landslide prevention. This paper’s primary objective is to compare the performances of conventional shallow machine learning methods and deep learning methods in LSA based on imbalanced data to evaluate the applicability of the two types of LSA models when class-weighted strategies are applied.
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A Framework for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Agricultural Land Use

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land policies
Agent-based models (ABMs) are particularly suited for simulating the behaviour of agricultural agents in response to land use (LU) policy. However, there is no evidence of their widespread use by policymakers. Here, we carry out a review of LU ABMs to understand how farmers’ decision-making has been modelled. We found that LU ABMs mainly rely on pre-defined behavioural rules at the individual farmers’ level. They prioritise explanatory over predictive purposes, thus limiting the use of ABM for policy assessment.
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A Glimpse into Women’s Customary Forest Tenure Practices in Lao PDR:Lao Version

Access, Use and Management Rights of Women in Customary Tenure Systems in Mai District, Phongsali Province (Lao version)

Reports & Research
September, 2022
Laos
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
customary law
forest land
forest management plans
customary land rights
customary tenure
The case study explores the intersect between customary tenure systems and gender roles in two villages in Phongsali district in the north of Laos. The country has a diverse population of ethnic communities who depend on forests and other natural resources for their livelihoods. These communities play an important role for conserving complex landscapes. However, their traditional land tenure practices are insufficiently documented and therefore poorly understood, and even more so the gender relations in customary systems.
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A Knowledge Map Study of an Application of a Smart Land Planning Free-Trade Zone and China’s Contribution

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
China, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land-use planning
The use of a free-trade zone (FTZ) has emerged as a smart land tool in increasing trading, attracting foreign investment, attempting financial openness and conducting other pilot economic reforms, which adds higher requirements for smart spatial planning, smart industry planning and smart management planning. However, no systematic analysis has been performed, making it difficult to provide deeper insights into FTZs.
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A Land-Use Change Model to Support Land-Use Planning in the Mekong Delta (MEKOLUC)

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
Agricultural land-use changes pose challenges for land managers in terms of ensuring the implementation of local land-use plans. This paper aims to build a land-use change model named MEKOLUC (Mekong Delta land-use change) for simulating land-use changes under the impacts of socioeconomic factors (profitability of land-use types, societal impacts on neighborhoods) and environmental factors (soil, salinity, persistence of salinity).
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A Multi-Scenario Land Expansion Simulation Method from Ecosystem Services Perspective of Coastal Urban Agglomeration: A Case Study of GHM-GBA, China

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Hong Kong, Macao S.A.R
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
Balancing urban development and ecosystem conservation in the context of natural resource scarcity can provide scientific guidance for land use planning. We integrated research methods, such as ecosystem services (ES) assessment, coastal vulnerability assessment, multi-objective linear planning, and land use change simulation, to develop a new model framework for multi-scenario urban land expansion simulation based on ecosystem services.
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A Paradigm Shift in Lending to Smallholder Farmers

The Potential of Geomapping Technology

Reports & Research
January, 2022
Global
Land & Investments
geographical information systems
maps
poverty
farming systems
land investments
land loans
farmers
smallholders
tenant farmers
farmers associations
A new report by Small Foundation and Palladium looks at the viability of geomapping as a tool to close the smallholder farmers’ financing gap and improve their livelihoods.
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A Simplified Spatial Methodology for Assessing Land Productivity Status in Africa

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Uganda, Mauritius, Rwanda, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land reform
The degradation of soil, vegetation and socio-economic transformations are a huge threat to Africa’s land production. This study aimed to (i) assess the soil and land productivity of standing biomass and (ii) determine the effect of rainfall on the standing biomass in Eastern Africa. Soil productivity was determined using the Soil Productivity Index (SPI) and a simplified model was developed to estimate the Net Primary Productivity (NPP). The SPI indicators used included soil-organic matter, texture, soil moisture, base-saturation, pH, cation-exchange-capacity, soil-depth and drainage.