Increasing population and rural to urban migration are accelerating urbanization globally, permanently transforming natural systems over large extents. Modelling landscape change over large regions, however, presents particular challenges due to local-scale variations in social and environmental…
This primer provides an introduction to some of the key issues that arise in the negotiation of contracts linked to investments in agriculture, and practical guidance for how to approach common issues. First, it outlines the typical goals of three important stakeholders – the government,…
Key messages:
<ul><li>Land-based investments – from agriculture and extractives to infrastructure – raise difficult land rights issues, which, if not addressed, can create disruptive disputes, impair local livelihoods and increase businesses’ operational costs and reputational…
From 9th to 29th September 2019, Land Portal, Cadasta and GIZ co-hosted <a href="https://landportal.org/debates/2019/open-land-data-fight-against-corruption">an online discussion…
According to recent reviews, the focus of DFID’s land governance work over the past decade has been primarily rural. Flagship programmes such as <a href="https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk:443/…
This article engages recent debates over gentrification and urban displacement in the global South. While researchers increasingly suggest that gentrification is becoming widespread in “Southern” cities, others argue that such analyses overlook important differences in empirical context and…
The Earth’s landscape has a complex evolution and is the result of the interactions involving surficial processes, climate, tectonic, and human activity [...]
Valley bottomland provides diverse agricultural and ecosystem benefits. Due to concentrated flow paths, they are more vulnerable to gully erosion than hillslope areas. The objective of this review was to show what caused valley bottoms gullies and to present deficiencies in existing…
This study focused on the prediction of land-use changes in Nakhon Ratchasima city using a CA-Markov Model with GIS. Satellite images taken by Landsat-5 (1992), Landsat-7 (2002) and THEOS (2016) were used to predict land use in 2026. In 1992, the most proportion of land usage was built-up areas…
In some landscapes, effective conservation of wildlife habitat requires extending beyond the boundaries of reserves and addressing stewardship of private lands. This approach could be especially valuable for the conservation of farm ponds, which are abundant and serve key agricultural functions…
This article brings together the concepts of land and landscape, tightly linked in urban transformative situations, but rarely used for the purpose to strengthen strategic planning for sustainability. They are investigated as a combined base for land use deliberations, in early phases of…
This thesis discusses the changes to the Prestwold estate in Leicestershire, directed by select members of the Packe family. It argues that these changes were examples of gentrification and they reflected the adaption of the gentry to capitalist society.