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Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Joachim von Braun, Auteur ; Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur ; Quang Bao Le, Auteur ; Ho-Young Kwon, Auteur ; Oliver Kirui, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative seeks to develop a science basis for policy actions to address land degradation. The purpose of this chapter is to provide with a conceptual framework and sound and feasible methodological stand[...]
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Samba Sow, Auteur ; Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Stefan Meyer, Auteur ; Edward Kato, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Senegal is facing a major land degradation challenge that poses threat to livelihoods of the rural poor. This study was done to inform policy makers on the cost of inaction and the costs and benefits of taking action against land degradation. Th[...]
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Mariana E. Bouza, Auteur ; Adriana Aranda-Rickert, Auteur ; María Magdalena Brizuela, Auteur ; Marcelo G. Wilson, Auteur ; Maria Carolina Sasal, Auteur ; Silvana M. J. Sione, Auteur ; Stella Beghetto, Auteur ; Emmanuel A. Gabioud, Auteur ; José D. Oszust, Auteur ; Donaldo E. Bran, Auteur ; Virginia Velazco, Auteur ; Juan J. Gaitan, Auteur ; Juan C. Silenzi, Auteur ; Nora E. Echeverría, Auteur ; Martín P. De Lucia, Auteur ; Daniel E. Iurman, Auteur ; Juan I. Vanzolini, Auteur ; Federico J. Castoldi, Auteur ; Joaquin Etorena Hormaeche, Auteur ; Timothy Johnson, Auteur ; Stefan Meyer, Auteur ; Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Argentina is one of the countries with a vibrant agricultural sector, which provides both economic development opportunities and environmental challenges. Argentina was selected as a case study due to its rich land degradation data, its diverse [...]
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Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur ; Jann Goedecke, Auteur ; Olena Dubovyk, Auteur ; Utkur Djanibekov, Auteur ; Quang Bao Le, Auteur ; Aden Aw-Hassan, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Land degradation is a major development challenge in Central Asia, with negative implications on rural livelihoods and food security. We estimate the annual cost of land degradation in the region due to land use and cover change between 2001 and[...]
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Land degradation is a complex process that involves both the natural ecosystem and the socioeconomic system, among which climate and land use changes are the two predominant driving factors. We reviewed the status of degradation in grasslands, f[...]
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Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Raghavan Srinivasan, Auteur ; Weston Anderson, Auteur ; Edward Kato, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016This study was conducted with the objective of determining the returns to sustainable land management (SLM) at the national level in Bhutan. The study first uses satellite data on land change (Landsat) to examine land use change in 1990–2010 and[...]
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Samuel Gebreselassie, Auteur ; Oliver K. Kirui, Auteur ; Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Land degradation is an important problem in Ethiopia, with more than 85 % of the land degraded to various degrees. Recent estimates using satellite imagery show that land degradation hotspots over the last three decades cover about 23 % of the l[...]
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Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur ; Joachim von Braun, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Land degradation is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries. However its impact is especially severe on the livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. Despite the[...]
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Wellington Mulinge, Auteur ; Patrick Gicheru, Auteur ; Festus Murithi, Auteur ; Peter Maingi, Auteur ; Evelyne Kihiu, Auteur ; Oliver K. Kirui, Auteur ; Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Kenya is an agricultural nation, with over 12 million people residing in areas with degraded lands. Unfortunately, the food crop productivity growth in the country has failed to exceed the population growth. The growth of agricultural output in [...]
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Bokar Moussa, Auteur ; Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Stefan Meyer, Auteur ; Edward Kato, Auteur ; Timothy Johnson, Auteur ; James Hawkins, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Niger’s colonial and post-independence natural resource management policies contributed to land degradation. The country also experienced a prolonged drought that amplified the suffering of the people who are heavily dependent on natural resourc[...]
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Land degradation is increasingly becoming a major concern for Indian agriculture on which two-third of the population depend for their livelihood. Many policies and programs have been initiated in the last two decades to address this problem but[...]
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Alexey Sorokin, Auteur ; Aleksey Bryzzhev, Auteur ; Anton Strokov, Auteur ; Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur ; Timothy Johnson, Auteur ; Sergey V. Kiselev, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016The analysis of the costs for action versus inaction in addressing land degradation at national and sub-national (regional and district) levels in Russia showed that the total annual costs of land degradation due to land use and cover change onl[...]
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Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Timothy Johnson, Auteur ; Ho Young Kwon, Auteur ; Edward Kato, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced the most severe land degradation in the world. Given that livelihoods of the majority of the rural poor heavily depend on natural resources, countries in the region have designed a number of policies and [...]
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Understanding the impacts of land degradation is, at least in part, limited by our ability to accurately characterize those impacts in space and time. While in recent decades remote sensing has offered unprecedented coverage of the land surface,[...]
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Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Weston Anderson, Auteur ; Edward Kato, Auteur ; Jawoo Koo, Auteur ; Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur ; Joachim von Braun, Auteur ; Stefan Meyer, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Land degradation—defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report as the long-term loss of ecosystems services—is a global problem, negatively affecting the livelihoods and food security of billions of people. Intensifying efforts, mobilizi[...]
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Alisher Mirzabaev, Auteur ; Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Jann Goedecke, Auteur ; Timothy Johnson, Auteur ; Weston Anderson, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016Identification of factors catalyzing sustainable land management (SLM) could provide insights for national policies and international efforts to address land degradation. Building on previous studies, and using novel datasets, this chapter ident[...]
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Ho-Young Kwon, Auteur ; Ephraim Nkonya, Auteur ; Timothy Johnson, Auteur ; Valerie Graw, Auteur ; Edward Kato, Auteur ; Evelyn Kihiu, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2016In response to the needs for estimating the cost of grassland degradation to determine the cost of inaction and for identifying cost-effective strategies to address the consequent loss of livestock productivity, we developed a modeling framework[...]
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While econometric and spatial data are increasingly helpful to quantify and locate the extent and costs of land degradation, there is still little understanding of the contextual factors that determine or influence the land users’ practices that[...]
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The last century has seen a dramatic reversal in the status of large carnivores in Europe. A suite of co-occurring factors has permitted a large-scale recovery of most populations. We currently recognise 10 populations of each species, most of w[...]
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Yvonne Cerqueira, Auteur ; Laetitia M. Navarro, Auteur ; Joachim Maes, Auteur ; Cristina Marta-Pedroso, Auteur ; João Pradinho Honrado, Auteur ; Henrique M. Pereira, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2015Halting the degradation and restoring the full capacity of ecosystems to deliver ecosystem services is currently a major political commitment in Europe. Although still a debated topic, Europe’s on-going farmland abandonment is seen as an opportu[...]
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Silvia Ceauşu, Auteur ; Steve Carver, Auteur ; Peter H. Verburg, Auteur ; Helga U. Kuechly, Auteur ; Franz Hölker, Auteur ; Lluis Brotons, Auteur ; Henrique M. Pereira, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2015Wilderness is a multidimensional concept that has evolved from an aesthetic idea to a science-based conservation approach. We analyze here several subjective and ecological dimensions of wilderness in Europe: human access from roads and settleme[...]
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Laetitia M. Navarro, Auteur ; Vânia Proença, Auteur ; Jed O. Kaplan, Auteur ; Henrique M. Pereira, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2015Natural disturbances, or the lack thereof, contributed to shape Earth’s landscapes and maintain its diversity of ecosystems. In particular, natural fire dynamics and herbivory by wild megafauna played an essential role in defining European lands[...]
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Judith C. Jobse, Auteur ; Loes Witteveen, Auteur ; Judith Santegoets, Auteur ; Derk Jan Stobbelaar, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2015This chapter discusses the role of education in the preparation of the next generation of entrepreneurs in nature conservation. Departing from the traditional conservation education, which emphasizes ecological management, the chapter is a plea [...]
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For millennia, mankind has shaped landscapes, particularly through agriculture. In Europe, the age-old interaction between humans and ecosystems strongly influenced the cultural heritage. Yet European farmland is now being abandoned, especially [...]
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Wouter Helmer, Auteur ; Deli Saavedra, Auteur ; Magnus Sylvén, Auteur ; Frans Schepers, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2015The European landscape is changing and new opportunities for conservation are arising. The main driver of this change is an unprecedented shift in agricultural practices that started in the mid-twentieth century. As a result, shepherds and small[...]
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Small organisms provide the bulk of biodiversity. Here, we look at rewilding from their perspective. As an umbrella group for other terrestrial invertebrates, we focus on the diverse group of Lepidoptera. More specifically, we set out to explore[...]
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Ainara Cortés-Avizanda, Auteur ; Jose A. Donazar, Auteur ; Henrique M. Pereira, Auteur | [S.l.] : Springer, Cham | 2015The concept of rewilding should not only be applied to recovering habitat and vertebrate populations but also to the restoration of complex ecological processes. Large avian scavengers are the target of restoration programs including conservatio[...]
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Millions of hectares of agricultural land could be released from human pressure within the next decades in Europe. Rewilding presents a great opportunity to restore the abandoned landscapes, along with the biodiversity and the supply of those ec[...]
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Intensive farming practices are a major cause of destruction and degradation of natural vegetation throughout the world. However, in some regions including Europe, semi-natural vegetation and farmland systems harbour wildlife of conservation con[...]
