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Journal / article | 2018
Thu, P.T., Moeliono, M., Wong, G., Brockhaus, M., Dung, L., N. 2018. The politics of swidden: A case study from Nghe An and Son La in Vietnam. Land Use Politics. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.10.057
Swidden cultivation practices have been seen as a major driver of deforestation and forest degradation in Southeast Asia. Using two case studies from Vietnam, this paper examines discourses around swidden practices at multiple levels of governance. Our findings show diverse interpretations of swidden resulting in different policy preferences and policy translations when addressing the issue. At national level, swidden is blame...
Jaramillo, F., Licero, L., Åhlen, I. et al.2018.Effects of Hydroclimatic Change and Rehabilitation Activities on Salinity and Mangroves in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia. Wetlands, DOI: 10.1007/s13157-018-1024-7
The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), Colombia is possibly the wetland that has experienced the largest mangrove mortality on record due to modification of hydrologic connectivity and consequent hypersaline conditions. We used hydroclimatic, salinity and mangrove basal area data collected in five stations from 1993 to 2015 to study the relation between ongoing mangrove recovery, changes in salinity in the wetland and hydro...
Haider, J., L., Neusel, B., Peterson, G.,D., Schlüter, M. 2018. Past management affects success of current joint forestry management institutions in Tajikistan. Environ Dev Sustain, 9 March. DOI: 10.1007/s10668-018-0132-0
In the Pamir Mountains of Eastern Tajikistan, the clearance of mountain forests to provide fuelwood for an increasing population is a major source of environmental degradation. International development organisations have implemented joint forestry management institutions to help restore once-forested mountainous regions, but the success of these institutions has been highly variable. This study uses a multi-method approach, d...
Schultz, L., West, S., Bourke, A.J., d'Armengol, L., Torrents, P., Hardardottir, H., Jansson, A., Roldán, A., M. 2018. Learning to live with social-ecological complexity: An interpretive analysis of learning in 11 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Global Environmental Change Volume 50, May 2018, Pages 75-87 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.03.001
Learning is considered a means to achieve sustainability in practice and has become a prominent goal of sustainability interventions. In this paper we explore how learning for sustainability is shaped by meaning, interpretation and experience, in the context of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs). The World Network of Biosphere Reserves brings environmental conservation, socio-economic development and research together in ‘learnin...
Andersson, K.P., Smith, S.M., Alston, L.J., Duchelle, A.E., Mwangi, E., Larson, A.M., de Sassi, C., Sills, E.O., Sunderlin, W.D. and Wong, G.Y., 2018. Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for REDD+. Land Use Policy, 72, pp.510-522.
Interventions to strengthen forest conservation in tropical biomes face multiple challenges. Insecure land tenure and unequal benefit sharing within forest user groups are two of the most important. Using original household-level survey data from 130 villages in six countries, we assess how current wealth inequality relates to tenure security and benefit flows from forest use. We find that villages with higher wealth inequalit...
Keys, P. W., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Gordon, L. J. 2018. Megacity precipitationsheds reveal tele-connected water security challenges. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0194311. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194311
Urbanization is a global process that has taken billions of people from the rural countryside to concentrated urban centers, adding pressure to existing water resources. Many cities are specifically reliant on renewable freshwater regularly refilled by precipitation, rather than fossil groundwater or desalination. A precipitationshed can be considered the “watershed of the sky” and identifies the origin of precipitation fallin...
Sohail, M., Eqani, S.A.M.A.., Podgorski, J., Bhowmik, A.K., Mahmood, A., Ali, N., Sabo-Attwood, T., Bokhari, H., Shen, H. 2017. Persistent Organic Pollutant emission via dust fallout throughout Pakistan: Fingerprinting of recent inputs, regional cycling and their implication for human health risks. Science of The Total Environment in press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.224
In the current study, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in outdoor dustfall was monitored for the first time along the Indus river system of Pakistan. Among the studied OCPs (ng/g, dry weight), DDTs (0.16–62) were the predominant contaminants identified in deposited dust followed by HCHs (0.1–10.2), HCB (0.09–7.4) and chlordanes (0.1–2.8). The indicative diagnostic ratio for DDTs and HCHs suggested recent emission of DDTs a...
Jaramillo, F., Brown, I., Castellazzi, P., Espinosa, L. F., Guittard, A., Hong, S.-H., Rivera-Monroy, V. H. and Wdowinski, S. 2018. Assessment of hydrologic connectivity in an ungauged wetland with InSAR observations, Environ. Res. Lett., doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d23
The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM) is one of the world's most productive tropical wetlands and one that has witnessed some of the greatest recorded dieback of mangroves. Human-driven loss of hydrologic connectivity by roads, artificial channels and water flow regulation appears to be the reason behind mangrove mortality in this ungauged wetland. In this study, we determined the CGSM's current state of hydrologic connecti...
Jaramillo, F., Cory, N., Arheimer, B., Laudon, H., van der Velde, Y., Hasper, T. B., Teutschbein, C. and Uddling, J. 2018. Dominant effect of increasing forest biomass on evapotranspiration: interpretations of movement in Budyko space, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22(1), 567–580, doi:10.5194/hess-22-567-2018
During the last 6 decades, forest biomass has increased in Sweden mainly due to forest management, with a possible increasing effect on evapotranspiration. However, increasing global CO2 concentrations may also trigger physiological water-saving responses in broadleaf tree species, and to a lesser degree in some needleleaf conifer species, inducing an opposite effect. Additionally, changes in other forest attributes may also a...
Järnberg, L., Kautsky, E. E., Dagerskog, L., Olsson, P. 2018. Green niche actors navigating an opaque opportunity context: Prospects for a sustainable transformation of Ethiopian agriculture. Land Use Policy 71 (2018) 409–421
Identifying trajectories of agricultural development that enable substantial increases in food production is of prime importance for food security and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa in general, and Ethiopia in particular. To ensure long-term welfare for people and landscapes, it is imperative that such agricultural transformations sustain and enhance the natural resource base upon which agriculture depends. To unde...
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