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1. Analyzing the Benin Land Law: An alternative viewpoint of progress

Author:
Lavigne Delville, Philippe
Source:
Land use policy 2020 v.94 pp. 104521
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; land policy; private ownership; Benin;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Ekpodessi and Nakamura recently published in Land Use Policy a paper on the 2013 Benin Land Law, the stated objective of which was to evaluate its effectiveness. The 2013 Land Law is mainly limited to reforming land administration bodies and does not alter the underpinnings of existing land law. On the contrary, it reaffirms the focus on private ownership and aims at simplifying and reducing the c ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104521

2. Correction to: Using measures of wellbeing for impact evaluation: Proof of concept developed with an Indigenous community undertaking land management programs in northern Australia

Author:
Larson, Silva; Stoeckl, Natalie; Jarvis, Diane; Addison, Jane; Prior, Sharon; Esparon, Michelle
Source:
Ambio 2019 v.48 no.1 pp. 99
ISSN:
0044-7447
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; Internet; Australia;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... The article “Using measures of wellbeing for impact evaluation: Proof of concept developed with an Indigenous community undertaking land management programs in northern Australia” written by “Silva Larson, Natalie Stoeckl, Diane Jarvis, Jane Addison, Sharon Prior and Michelle Esparon”, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 05 May 201 ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13280-018-1113-0
PubMed:
30390224
PubMed Central:
PMC6297104

3. Discovering accounts of Native American burning within digitized historical documents using information retrieval methods

Author:
Tulowiecki, Stephen J.; Williams, Scott V.; Oldendorf, Mary E.
Source:
Vegetation history and archaeobotany 2020 v.29 no.4 pp. 463-476
ISSN:
0939-6314
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; burning; information retrieval; models; villages; New York;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Historical accounts (ca 17th–19th centuries CE) are valuable for understanding how and where past Native American cultures used fire as a land management tool. Previous research has compiled and interpreted accounts, but methods of compiling them remains less systematic, leaving open the possibility that undiscovered accounts exist. This study uses information retrieval methods to locate accounts ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00334-019-00753-2

4. Special issue: Environmental risk mitigation for sustainable land use development

Author:
Azadi, Hossein; Petrescu, Dacinia Crina; Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Malina; Ozunu, Alexandru
Source:
Land use policy 2020 v.95 pp. 104488
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; land policy; risk; risk assessment; risk reduction;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The Special Issue (SI) “Environmental Risk Mitigation for Sustainable Land Use Development” presents seventeen interrelated papers addressing the key concept of environmental risk mitigation and sustainable land use development. The issue argues that risk mitigation depends directly on the risk assessment analysis and the quality of applied measures. Therefore, the more precise are risk assessment ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104488

5. A review of critical perspectives on private land conservation in academic literature

Author:
Gooden, Jennifer; ‘t Sas-Rolfes, Michael
Source:
Ambio 2020 v.49 no.5 pp. 1019-1034
ISSN:
0044-7447
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; biodiversity; governance; private lands; social benefit;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... In recent years, private land conservation has increased in profile among policymakers and academics. Conservation initiatives on privately owned land help to mitigate global biodiversity loss and introduce new actors to conservation. However, they have also been the subject of numerous critical accounts. This review catalogs issues that emerge in critical literature, identifying 25 themes, classi ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13280-019-01258-y
PubMed:
31606881
PubMed Central:
PMC7067726

6. Household welfare implications of sustainable land management practices among smallholder farmers in Ghana

Author:
Issahaku, Gazali; Abdulai, Awudu
Source:
Land use policy 2020 v.94 pp. 104502
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; dose response; farmers; farms; households; poverty; Ghana;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... This study employs farm household data to examine the impact of adoption of sustainable land management practices on consumption and poverty outcomes using multivalued treatment effects approaches. The generalized propensity score approach was employed to account for selectivity bias due to observed characteristics among households. Using a doubly robust treatment effects estimator, we found that ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104502

7. Pathways for a future cadastral system: A socio-technical approach

Author:
Krigsholm, Pauliina; Riekkinen, Kirsikka; Ståhle, Pirjo
Source:
Land use policy 2020 v.94 pp. 104504
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; case studies; cognition; information management; property rights;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... A vast array of trends and innovations, such as drones and person-to-person trust solutions, have been proposed to revolutionize the task of recording land and property rights. There is, however, a gap in current research regarding how to approach systematically the future(s) of cadastral systems. This paper introduces socio-technical transitions theory and multi-level perspective (MLP) framework ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104504

8. Obscure yet Promising Oleaginous Yeasts for Fuel and Chemical Production

Author:
Sreeharsha, Rachapudi Venkata; Mohan, S. Venkata
Source:
Trends in biotechnology 2020 v.38 no.8 pp. 873-887
ISSN:
0167-7799
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; agricultural land; alternative fuels; bioeconomics; bioethanol; energy; feedstocks; food security; lipids; models; petroleum; yeasts;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... The rapid depletion of petroleum-based fossil fuels has led to the development of alternative fuel and energy solutions from renewable resources. Lipid-derived oleochemicals and sugar-derived bioethanol were initially produced from plant feedstocks, but in the interest of agricultural land conservation and food security, the focus has now shifted toward so-called ‘third-generation feedstocks’, of ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.02.004

9. An automatic change detection method for monitoring newly constructed building areas using time-series multi-view high-resolution optical satellite images

Author:
Huang, Xin; Cao, Yinxia; Li, Jiayi
Source:
Remote sensing of environment 2020 v.244 pp. 111802
ISSN:
0034-4257
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; cities; image analysis; models; monitoring; remote sensing; time series analysis; urbanization; China;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Automatically monitoring newly constructed building areas (NCBAs) is essential for efficient land resource management and sustainable urban development, particularly in the rapidly urbanizing country of China. In this regard, time-series multi-view high-resolution optical satellite images can provide fine spatial details for clearly characterizing NCBAs, but this leads to great heterogeneity and c ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.rse.2020.111802

10. Green infrastructure spatial planning considering ecosystem services assessment and trade-off analysis. Application at landscape scale in Galicia region (NW Spain)

Author:
García, Andrés M.; Santé, Inés; Loureiro, Xurxo; Miranda, David
Source:
Ecosystem services 2020 v.43 pp. 101115
ISSN:
2212-0416
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; ecosystem services; green infrastructure; landscapes; planning; social welfare; Spain;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... Green Infrastructure (GI) is increasingly being adopted in land management as a way of ensuring provision of the ecosystem services (ESS) required for human well-being. As GI is a spatial concept, spatial planning methods must be applied in designing GI. Many studies have focused on designing certain GI zones or on planning a GI specifically considering one or a few ESS. However, studies on GI pla ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101115

11. Obtaining a Balanced Area Sample for the Bureau of Land Management Rangeland Survey

Author:
Yu, Cindy L.; Li, Jie; Karl, Michael G.; Krueger, Todd J.
Source:
Journal of agricultural, biological, and environmental statistics 2020 v.25 no.2 pp. 250-275
ISSN:
1085-7117
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; U.S. Department of the Interior; environmental surveys; probability; rangelands; sampling; variance; United States;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... In agricultural and environmental surveys, obtaining spatially balanced area samples that are also representative probability samples in the presence of auxiliary variables is a challenge, especially when the study regions have fragmentary boundaries and possess holes of various shapes. This paper describes a sampling procedure that achieves this goal and is implemented in the U.S. Department of t ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13253-020-00392-5

12. Comparison of three hybrid models to simulate land use changes: a case study in Qeshm Island, Iran

Author:
Kourosh Niya, Ali; Huang, Jinliang; Kazemzadeh-Zow, Ali; Karimi, Hazhir; Keshtkar, Hamidreza; Naimi, Babak
Source:
Environmental monitoring and assessment 2020 v.192 no.5 pp. 302
ISSN:
0167-6369
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; case studies; coasts; decision making; ecosystems; land use change; models; planning; prediction; Iran;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Land use change simulation is an important issue for its role in predicting future trends and providing implications for sustainable land management. Hybrid models have become a recognized strategy to inform decision-makers, but further attempts are needed to warrant the reliability of their projected results. In view of this, three hybrid models, including the cellular automata-Markov chain-artif ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10661-020-08274-6

13. Exploring the interdisciplinary potential of the Agenda2030—Interactions between five Danish societal demands for sustainable land use

Author:
Johansen, Pia Heike; Ejrnæs, Rasmus; Kronvang, Brian; Olsen, Jakob Vesterlund; Præstholm, Søren; Schou, Jesper Sølver; Johansen, Sarah Kristine
Source:
Land use policy 2020 v.94 pp. 104501
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; communications technology; guidelines; interdisciplinary research; land use; Denmark;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... This article explores the potential of the SDG framework for interdisciplinary research. The aim is to illustrate the process of creating a shared platform of operation by the clarifying the positive and negative interactions between societal demands for land use on a national and local level. The research question is answered by making use of the systemic approach introduced by Niklas Luhmann inc ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104501

14. Gendered climate change adaptation practices in fragmented farm fields of Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia

Author:
Cholo, Tesfaye C.; Peerlings, Jack; Fleskens, Luuk
Source:
Climate and development 2020 v.12 no.4 pp. 323-331
ISSN:
1756-5537
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; climate change; farmers; farms; habitat fragmentation; highlands; labor; men; women; work schedules; Ethiopia;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... The objective of this study is to assess the existence of gendered climate change adaptation practices of smallholder farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. We hypothesized that smallholders’ adaptation practices are gendered because of land fragmentation and gendered division of labour. To explore this, we considered sustainable land management practices as a tool for sustainable adaptation a ...
DOI:
10.1080/17565529.2019.1618234

15. A comprehensive analysis of Universal Soil Loss Equation‐based models at the Sparacia experimental area

Author:
Bagarello, Vincenzo; Ferro, Vito; Pampalone, Vincenzo
Source:
Hydrological processes 2020 v.34 no.7 pp. 1545-1557
ISSN:
0885-6087
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; Universal Soil Loss Equation; data collection; prediction; rain; runoff; soil; soil erosion; Italy;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Improving Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE)‐based models has large interest because simple and reliable analytical tools are necessary in the perspective of a sustainable land management. At first, in this paper, a general definition of the event rainfall‐ runoff erosivity factor for the USLE‐based models, REFₑ = (QR)ᵇ¹(EI₃₀)ᵇ², in which QR is the event runoff coefficient, EI₃₀ is the single‐sto ...
DOI:
10.1002/hyp.13681

16. Are we taking farmers seriously? A review of the literature on farmer perceptions and climate change, 2007–2018

Author:
Soubry, Bernard; Sherren, Kate; Thornton, Thomas F.
Source:
Journal of rural studies 2020 v.74 pp. 210-222
ISSN:
0743-0167
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; climate change; farmers; farmers' attitudes; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... While there is broad agreement in theory that farmers' expertise should be integrated into discussions of land management and climate change adaptation in the food system, it is unknown how much research practice has integrated these recommendations. To gauge the state of the field, we reviewed and coded a sample set of papers (n = 105) concerning farmers' perceptions of climate change. Crosstabul ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.09.005

17. Geospatial Data Approach for Demand-Oriented Policies of Land Administration

Author:
Choi, HaeOk
Source:
Land 2020 v.9 no.1
ISSN:
2073-445X
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; cities; coasts; issues and policy; land ownership; mountains; spatial data;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... To develop the land administration sector, it is important to examine the difficulties faced and requests made by citizens. Accordingly, this study analyzes the Voice of Citizens data relating to land administration in an attempt to identify characteristics of civil complaints in the spatial sector that are unique to land administration. This research builds geospatial Database by combining civil ...
DOI:
10.3390/land9010031

18. Relationships between Land Management Scale and Livelihood Strategy Selection of Rural Households in China from the Perspective of Family Life Cycle

Author:
Xu, Dingde; Ma, Zhixing; Deng, Xin; Liu, Yi; Huang, Kai; Zhou, Wenfeng; Yong, Zhuolin
Source:
Land 2020 v.9 no.1
ISSN:
2073-445X
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; econometric models; family relations; households; income; labor; livelihood; surveys; sustainable development; China;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Rural households are micro-organizational systems that are composed of different family members. Against a background of fragmented land patterns and massive labor migration in China, it is of great significance for the sustainable development of regional economies to explore the optimal selection of livelihood strategies by rural households. Using a survey containing data from 8031 rural househol ...
DOI:
10.3390/land9010011

19. Defining and measuring sustainability: a systematic review of studies in rural Latin America and the Caribbean

Author:
Gibbes, Cerian; Hopkins, Allison L.; Díaz, Armando Inurreta; Jimenez-Osornio, Juan
Source:
Environment, development and sustainability 2020 v.22 no.1 pp. 447-468
ISSN:
1387-585X
Subject:
sustainable land management,   etc   ; land use; rural areas; systematic review; Caribbean; Latin America;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Research on sustainability was ignited by the Brundtland Report and further fueled by the recognition that sustainability is a critical challenge for the twenty-first century. The explosion of sustainability literature necessitates continuous review and synthesis. This targeted review focuses on sustainable rural land use in Latin America and the Caribbean. A systematic selection process yielded 5 ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10668-018-0209-9

20. Hybrid land tenure administration in Dunoon, South Africa

Author:
Barry, Michael
Source:
Land use policy 2020 v.90 pp. 104301
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
land management,   etc   ; committees; governance; households; interviews; land tenure; ownership; risk; South Africa;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... 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 ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104301