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Sky, Per Kåre; Elvestad, Helén Elisabeth - 2021

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Remote sensing of bush encroachment on commercial cattle farms in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia

Schröter, Matthias; Jakoby, Oliver; Olbrich, Roland; … - 2009

Bush encroachment is one of the most extensive changes in land cover in Namibia and an urgent problem for cattle farming, rapidly reducing the productivity of the rangeland. Despite the severity of these consequences, a complete and accurate assessment of bush encroached areas is still missing...

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The diffusion of cattle ranching and deforestation : prospects for a hollow frontier in Mexico’s Yucatán

Busch, Christopher B.; Vance, Colin - 2011

This article investigates the behavioral drivers of pasture creation and associated implications for deforestation in a 22,000 km2 agricultural frontier spanning the base of Mexico‘s southern Yucatán. After developing a theoretical model that highlights the role of social networks and...

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Bush encroachment control and risk management in semi-arid rangelands

Lukomska, Natalia; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2010

-economic model of grazing management in semi-arid rangelands. In particular, we study debushing as an instrument of risk management … that complements the choice of an adaptive grazing management strategy for that sake. We show that debushing, while being a …-economic model of grazing management in semiarid rangelands. In particular, we study debushing as an instrument of risk management …

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Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services Under Multiple Risks – A Survey of Commercial Cattle Farmers in Semi-Arid Rangelands in Namibia

Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2010

Studying the sustainable use of ecosystem services under uncertainty requires the consideration of the stochastic dynamics of the system under study, risk and time preferences, risk management strategies and normative views pertaining to sustainability. To gather this information for an...

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Sustainable use of ecosystem services under multiple risks : a survey of commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia

Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2009

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‘Land Sparing’ in a Von Thünen Framework : Theory and Evidence from Brazil

Fontes, Francisco - 2018

This paper evaluates micro-scale evidence for ‘land sparing' in a von Thünen framework. A panel dataset of household lots in Rondônia, Brazil is used to test the hypothesis that the closer a household is to market the more likely it will adopt land-sparing patterns of cattle production in...

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Land-Use Intensity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the LURNZ Model

Timar, Levente - 2014

This paper documents the development of new land-use intensity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions modules for the Land Use in Rural New Zealand (LURNZ) model. These modules translate simulated land-use outcomes into measures of rural economic activity and greenhouse gas emissions for dairy...

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Cooperation in the Commons : Community-based Rangeland Management in Namibia

Coppock, D. Layne; Crowley, Lucas; Durham, Susan L.; … - 2021

management may have been offset by communities’ inability to control grazing by non-participating herds and inhibited by an …

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Social capital and pastoral institutions in conflict management : evidence from Eastern Ethiopia

Mohammed, Ahmed; Fekadu Beyene - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 1, pp. 74-88

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