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A LUTA PELA A TERRA, ATÉ QUANDO? RESERVA EXTRATIVISTA DO EXTREMO NORTE DO ESTADO DO TOCANTINS

Reports & Research
Setembro, 2018
Brasil

A Reserva Extrativista (Resex) do Extremo Norte do Estado do Tocantins possuiuma área que corresponde a 9.280 hectares, localizada na região do Bico do Papagaio,especificamente no Estado do Tocantins - Brasil, entre os municípios de CarrascoBonito (97% da área da Reserva), Buriti do Tocantins (2% idem) e Sampaio (1% idem).A Resex se encontra localizadas nas proximidades das seguintes coordenad

Operationalizing a land systems classification for Laos

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Laos

Land cover data is widely used for the design and monitoring of land use policies despite the incapability of this type of data to represent multiple land uses and land management activities within the same landscape. In this study, we operationalized the concept of land systems for the case of the Lao PDR (Laos). Distinct land systems like shifting cultivation and plantations (land concessions) cannot be fully captured by land cover inventories alone, in spite of their relevance for land use policies.

Predicting Land Use Changes in Philadelphia Following Green Infrastructure Policies

Peer-reviewed publication
Janeiro, 2019
Estados Unidos

Urbanization is a rapid global trend, leading to consequences such as urban heat islands and local flooding. Imminent climate change is predicted to intensify these consequences, forcing cities to rethink common infrastructure practices. One popular method of adaptation is green infrastructure implementation, which has been found to reduce local temperatures and alleviate excess runoff when installed effectively. As cities continue to change and adapt, land use/landcover modeling becomes an important tool for city officials in planning future land usage.

Combating Land Degradation and Desertification: The Land-Use Planning Quandary

Peer-reviewed publication
Janeiro, 2019
Global

Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of land systems, and secure their sustainability. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) underlines the critical role of appropriate local action to address the global threat of land degradation and desertification (LDD) and calls for the use of local and regional LUP to combat LDD and achieve land degradation neutrality. The paper explores the challenges of putting this call into practice.

BRIDGE Report 52: Environmentally Sustainable Development and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

Reports & Research
Setembro, 1997
Global

How would environmentally sustainable development look if it was gender-sensitive? This report argues that much mainstream literature on environmentally sustainable development has ignored the gender dimensions. Where women have been the target of programmes, they have been seen as natural managers of environmental resources. A gender analysis is important because gender relations affect the ways in which poor men and women manage natural resources.

Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

Reports & Research
Julho, 2001
Moçambique
Egito
Nigéria
África do Sul
Uganda
Mali
Somália
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Serra Leoa
Sudoeste Asiático
África Ocidental
Global
África Oriental
Norte de África
África austral

Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women. The General Agreement in Trade and Service (GATS), for instance, provides for a level playing field in service provision between big foreign owned companies and small locally owned companies.

Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2008
Global

WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's work anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globalization. This third edition features an afterword updating the analysis for the present day.

People in Between: Conversion and Conservation of Forest Lands in Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2000
Tailândia

The analysis of `ambiguous lands' and the people who inhabit them is most revealing for understanding environmental deterioration in Thailand. `Ambiguous lands' are those which are legally owned by the state, but are used and cultivated by local people. Land with an ambiguous property status attracts many different actors: villagers hungry for unoccupied arable lands in the frontiers; government departments looking for new project sites; and conservation agencies searching for new areas to be protected.