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Landscape Fire, Biodiversity Decline and a Rapidly Changing Milieu: A Microcosm of Global Issues in an Australian Biodiversity Hotspot
Gill, A. Malcolm; McKenna, David J.; Wouters, Michael A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 1091-1136
conservation in a world of increasing population and a drying, fire-prone environment. At just 0.1% of Australia’s terrestrial land … conservation in the region, wider recognition of the all-tenure, whole-of-landscape, whole-of-community approach to biodiversity … conservation and fire management is needed if the probability of further extinctions is to be reduced. …
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Using Remote Sensing to Quantify Vegetation Change and Ecological Resilience in a Semi-Arid System
Cui, Xia; Gibbes, Cerian; Southworth, Jane; Waylen, Peter - In: Land 2 (2013) 2, pp. 108-130
This research extends upon land cover change studies by incorporating methodological approaches, which are compatible with heterogeneous ecosystems, are able to link landscape changes to system processes, such as climate change, and provide potential linkages to concepts of ecological...
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Urbanity and Urbanization: An Interdisciplinary Review Combining Cultural and Physical Approaches
Schneider, Christoph; Achilles, Bianca; Merbitz, Hendrik - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 105-130
This review paper focuses on research schemes regarding urbanity and urbanization, and brings together both cultural and physical approaches. First, we review the cultural and social construction of urbanity (as related to urbanization) in Germany. In the early 20th century, urbanity was mainly...
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The Positive Feedback Loop between the Impacts of Climate Change and Agricultural Expansion and Relocation
Bajželj, Bojana; Richards, Keith S. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 898-916
Climate change and agriculture influence each other. The effects of climate change on agriculture seem to be predominantly negative, although studies show a large variation in impacts between crops and regions. To compensate for these effects, agriculture can either intensify or expand in area;...
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Comparing Path Dependence and Spatial Targeting of Land Use in Implementing Climate Change Responses
Brown, Iain; Castellazzi, Marie; Feliciano, Diana - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 850-873
Land use patterns are the consequence of dynamic processes that often include important legacy issues. Evaluation of past trends can be used to investigate the role of path dependence in influencing future land use through a reference “business as usual” (BAU) scenario. These issues are...
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Adaptation to New Climate by an Old Strategy? Modeling Sedentary and Mobile Pastoralism in Semi-Arid Morocco
Freier, Korbinian P.; Finckh, Manfred; Schneider, Uwe A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 917-940
In a modeling study we examine vulnerability of income from mobile (transhumant) pastoralism and sedentary pastoralism to reduced mean annual precipitation (MAP) and droughts. The study is based on empirical data of a 3410 km<sup>2</sup> research region in southern, semi-arid Morocco. The land use decision...
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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.
Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...
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Balancing Bioenergy Production and Nature Conservation in Germany: Potential Synergies and Challenges
Ruschkowski, Eick von; Wiehe, Julia - In: Journal of Socio-Economics in Agriculture (Until 2015: … 1 (2008) 1, pp. 3-20
The production of biomass for energy has emerged into a new, important market for agriculture in Germany. As climate protection remains the main objective for renewable energy production, the assessment and reduction of its environmental impacts are becoming increasingly important. This...
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KLUM@GTAP: Introducing biophysical aspects of land-use decisions into a general equilibrium model: A coupling experiment
Ronneberger, Kerstin; Berrittella, Maria; Bosello, Francesco - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), … - 2006
In this paper the global agricultural land use model KLUM is coupled to an extended version of the computable general equilibrium model (CGE) GTAP in order to consistently assess the integrated impacts of climate change on global cropland allocation and its implication for economic development....
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Climate protection through biochar in German agriculture: Potentials and costs
Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 4, pp. 17-26
In recent years, there has been much discussion about biochar - a carbonaceous product made of biomass - as a promising technique for mitigating climate change. In particular, this method has the potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for the long term by incorporating biochar...
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