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Navigating Multiple Tensions for Engaged Praxis in a Complex Social-Ecological System

Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2018
África do Sul
África austral

Innovative, pragmatic approaches are needed to support sustainable livelihoods and landscape management in complex social-ecological systems (CSES) such as river catchments. In the Tsitsa River Catchment, South Africa, researchers and natural resource managers have come together to apply such innovative approaches. Since CSES are characterised by uncertainty and surprise, understanding and managing them requires a commitment to reflexive praxis and transdisciplinarity.

Market-Based Conservation for Better Livelihoods? The Promises and Fallacies of REDD+ in Tanzania

Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2018
Tanzania
África

Governments, multilateral organisations, and international conservation NGOs increasingly frame nature conservation in terms that emphasise the importance of technically managing and economically valuing nature, and introducing markets for ecosystem services. New mechanisms, such as REDD+, have been incorporated in national-level policy reforms, and have been piloted and implemented in rural project settings across the Global South.

Underground Space Utilization in the Urban Land-Use Planning of Casablanca (Morocco)

Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2018
Marrocos

With the rapid rate of population growth and economic development, cities face enormous challenges that require both optimal and integrated solutions to meet the needs of growth and to protect the environment and sustainable development. These urban dynamics, which change over time, extend not only horizontally and upward, but also downward. Thus, underground space has been utilized increasingly to relieve the urban surface and to ensure the exploitation of underground resources.

A Model for Estimating the Vegetation Cover in the High-Altitude Wetlands of the Andes (HAWA)

Peer-reviewed publication
Janeiro, 2019
Chile

The natural salt meadows of Tilopozo in the hyperarid, Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which are located at approximately 2800 m above sea level, are under pressure from industrial activity, and cultivation and grazing by local communities. In this research, the land surface covered by salt meadow vegetation was estimated from normalized difference vegetation indices (NDVI) derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) and Operational Land Imager (OLI) data from 1985 to 2016.

Gender, Educational Attainment, and Farm Outcomes in New Zealand

Peer-reviewed publication
Janeiro, 2019
Nova Zelândia

Empirical studies of farm outcomes that rely on survey data often find important roles for education and gender. However, relatively few studies consider either field of study or gender of the decision maker (as opposed to gender of the survey respondent). This paper evaluates how the field of education and gender of decision makers correlate with profitability, farm management, future intentions, risk and norms, and adoption of novel technologies in New Zealand, explicitly accounting for the fact that many farming households make decisions jointly.

New 1 km Resolution Datasets of Global and Regional Risks of Tree Cover Loss

Peer-reviewed publication
Janeiro, 2019
Global

Despite global recognition of the social, economic and ecological impacts of deforestation, the world is losing forests at an alarming rate. Global and regional efforts by policymakers and donors to reduce deforestation need science-driven information on where forest loss is happening, and where it may happen in the future.

Net Global Warming Potential of Spring Wheat Cropping Systems in a Semiarid Region

Peer-reviewed publication
Fevereiro, 2019
Global
América do Norte

Investigations of global warming potential (GWP) of semiarid cropping systems are needed to ascertain agriculture’s contributions to climate regulation services. This study sought to determine net GWP for three semiarid cropping systems under no-tillage management in the northern Great Plains of North America: spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)—fallow (SW-F), continuous spring wheat (CSW) and spring wheat—safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)—rye (Secale cereale L.) (SW-S-R).

Globalization and Biodiversity Conservation Problems: Polycentric REDD+ Solutions

Peer-reviewed publication
Fevereiro, 2019
Global

Protected areas are considered the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, but face multiple problems in delivering this core objective. The growing trend of framing biodiversity and protected area values in terms of ecosystem services and human well-being may not always lead to biodiversity conservation. Although globalization is often spoken about in terms of its adverse effects to the environment and biodiversity, it also heralds unprecedented and previously inaccessible opportunities linked to ecosystem services.

Making It Spatial Makes It Personal: Engaging Stakeholders with Geospatial Participatory Modeling

Peer-reviewed publication
Fevereiro, 2019
Global

Participatory research methods are increasingly used to collectively understand complex social-environmental problems and to design solutions through diverse and inclusive stakeholder engagement. But participatory research rarely engages stakeholders to co-develop and co-interpret models that conceptualize and quantify system dynamics for comparing scenarios of alternate action. Even fewer participatory projects have engaged people using geospatial simulations of dynamic landscape processes and spatially explicit planning scenarios.

Ecosystem Productivity and Water Stress in Tropical East Africa: A Case Study of the 2010–2011 Drought

Peer-reviewed publication
Março, 2019
África Oriental

Characterizing the spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem responses to drought is important in understanding the impact of water stress on tropical ecosystems and projecting future land cover transitions in the East African tropics. Through the analysis of satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), soil moisture, rainfall, and reanalysis data, here we characterize the 2010–2011 drought in tropical East Africa.