An acknowledgement of uncertainty – rather than accepting everything can be managed as risk – raises some difficult questions for the type of interventions usually proposed.” The politics of disasters The chapter looks at both examples of commercial insurance and standard approaches to early warning...
Acknowledgement The radiometric measurements for validation are acquired by the BSRN, SURFRAD, AON and FLUXNET communities and in particular by the following networks: AmeriFlux (US Department of Energy, Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial Carbon Program (DE-FG02-04ER63917 and DEFG02-04...
Land consolidation is an instrument that readjusts land parcel shapes and reallocates land rights in order to minimize farmland fragmentation, optimize agricultural output, and generate optimal living and working conditions in rural areas. The optimizati
Examples of Indigenous-led conservation are not without their critique. The failures of Crown governments to recognize Indigenous rights and tensions over colonial land use, understandings of “ownership”, and decision-making authority in conservation spaces complicate the establishment of new Indigenous-...
Steps to ensure state claims to presumed public lands within community lands are required so as not to undermine constitutional acknowledgement that community lands are a major class of land ownership, due protection. Effective procedures are also needed to ensure that restitution is not dismissed out...
acknowledgement, landscape planning processes are constrained by a lack of insights into the views of stakeholders with competing interests [16]. Therefore, one of the critical steps in strengthening landscape governance in multiple land-use settings is to uncover stakeholders’ nuanced perspectives about...
Acknowledgement for the data support from “National Earth System Science Data Center, National Science and Technology Infrastructure of China” (http://www.geodata.cn, accessed on 30 July 2021). Finally, the authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for helping to improve the quality ...