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City-Level Comparison of Urban Land-Cover Configurations from 2000–2015 across 65 Countries within the Global Belt and Road
2019
Remote Sensing
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In different regions, UGS changes declined by 7.37% in humid cities but increased by 14.61% in arid cities. ...
The built-up areas of 65 capital cities increased from 23,696.25 km2 to 29,257.51 km2, with an average growth rate of 370.75 km2/y during 2000–2015. ...
The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of the data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. ...
doi:10.3390/rs11131515
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Agricultural Production, Land-use/cover Change and the Desertification Debate in the West African Savannah: An Adapted Political Ecology Approach
2013
Journal of Arts and Humanities
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However, new perspectives being generated from several local level studies of agricultural production and land-use/cover change in the semi-arid savannah regions of West Africa offer departure points from ...
In response to these issues, West African governments have emphasised the need and rolled out programmes for modernisation of smallholder agriculture through promotion of capital-intensive and market-driven ...
Again, in the environmental history enquiry for example, the social-ecological history of the study area spanning different epochs of land-use/cover changes may be analysed. ...
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Drought, change and resilience in South Africa's arid and semi-arid rangelands
2009
South African Journal of Science
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Drought and ecosystem resilience Observations that vegetation responses to grazing, drought and fire are often discontinuous and difficult to reverse have led to the suggestion that thresholds exist between ...
of coping with droughts and climate change in South Africa's arid and semi-arid rangelands. ...
Detection of thresholds and assessment of ecosystem resilience Because of the high inherent rainfall and vegetation variability in arid rangelands, thresholds can be difficult to detect. ...
doi:10.4102/sajs.v105i1/2.35
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Drought, change and resilience in South Africa's arid and semi-arid rangelands
2009
South African Journal of Science
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Drought and ecosystem resilience Observations that vegetation responses to grazing, drought and fire are often discontinuous and difficult to reverse have led to the suggestion that thresholds exist between ...
of coping with droughts and climate change in South Africa's arid and semi-arid rangelands. ...
Detection of thresholds and assessment of ecosystem resilience Because of the high inherent rainfall and vegetation variability in arid rangelands, thresholds can be difficult to detect. ...
doi:10.1590/s0038-23532009000100017
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Improved decision-making on irrigation farming in arid zones using a system dynamics model
2013
South African Journal of Science
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Acknowledgements This article is one result of the research project "Water Use Surveillance and Ecological Economic Modelling of Agro-Ecosystems in the Sandveld region, Western Cape", as managed by the ...
Funding by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and the Cape Action Plan for People and the Environment (C.A.P.E) is hereby gratefully acknowledged. ...
The Sandveld is an area on the arid west coast of South Africa in which irrigation farming is practised intensively and which is highly sensitive to ecological constraints. ...
doi:10.1590/sajs.2013/20130191
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Water, climate, and social change in a fragile landscape
2013
Ecosphere
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border regions and/or international rivers in arid and semi-arid regions in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ...
El Paso/Ciudad Juarez area on top of an already high base demand from irrigated agriculture, (3) water quality impacts from agricultural, municipal, and industrial discharges to the river, (4) changing ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project was supported in part by NSF grant number EAR-1039127. ...
doi:10.1890/es12-00269.1
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A geographic identification of sustainable development obstacles and countermeasures in drylands: A case study in Inner Mongolia, China
2021
Ecological Indicators
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In this paper, we call for an integrated (i.e., focusing on natural and human capital) land management and planning approach for drylands to reflect the nature of the tightly coupled socio-ecological systems ...
Hinggan and Chifeng are hot spot areas and Hohhot is a cold spot area. ...
Comments and suggestions from anonymous reviewers, the academic editor, and the managing editor are greatly appreciated. ...
doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108257
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Resilience, Adaptability, and Regime Shifts Thinking: A Perspective of Dryland Socio-Ecology System
2021
Journal of Resources and Ecology
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FU Bojie at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences for contribution in provoking this work. ...
Drylands in this article followed the definition of UNCCD, which describes it as arid land areas where the aridity index value of between 0.05 and 0.65. ...
The MARAS system launched in 2018 consisted of 379 ground monitors in a 624.5 km 2 semi-arid area of southern Argentina and Chile to record 11 landscape indicators (Oliva et al., 2019) . ...
doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2021.03.007
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Sustainability or resilience? A case study in the semi-arid Pampean region of Argentina
2018
Resilience - International Policies, Practices and Discourses
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in semi-arid areas such as the Pampean region. ...
Because of the dynamic and complex nature of rural systems, and because we are dealing with an interdependence between humans and ecosystems, resilience theory could be a useful framework for analysing ...
Conclusions The aim of the paper was to analyse semi-arid rural areas in Argentina through the lens of resilience. ...
doi:10.1080/21693293.2018.1446298
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Vegetation composition and structure changes following roller-chopping deforestation in central Argentina woodlands
2016
Journal of Arid Environments
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19 20 Driven by the pressure of increasing forage production for cattle, dry forests and woodlands of 21 Argentina are suffering one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. ...
on other ecosystem 33 processes such as the carbon and water dynamics. 34 35 ...
The sites for assessing NDVI dynamics were 130 selected considering two criteria: a) They had to be located in the same areas that the 131 experimental transects and b) they had to cover a minimum of four ...
doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2016.05.005
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Establishing the links between economic development and the restoration of natural capital
2013
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. ...
Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. ...
Acknowledgements The Water Research Commission which, through contract K5/1803 'The impact of re-establishing indigenous plants and restoring the natural landscape on sustainable rural employment and land ...
doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.12.003
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Participatory selection process for indicators of rangeland condition in the Kalahari
2002
Geographical Journal
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This framework is applied to the assessment of rangeland degradation processes and sustainable natural resource management with pastoralists in the southern Kalahari, Botswana. ...
Such knowledge could be used to improve indicatorbased management tools and extension advice on the livelihood adaptations necessary to prevent or reduce ecological change, capable of threatening livelihood ...
We are grateful to the Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana, for their cooperation and support, including the provision of a guide and interpreter for fieldwork. ...
doi:10.1111/1475-4959.00050
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Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes
2021
Landscape and Urban Planning
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This research was done within the LTSER Platforms of the Arid Iberian South East -Spain (LTER_EU_ES_027) and Sierra Nevada / Granada (ES-SNE) -Spain (LTER_EU_ES_010). ...
We also thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business (Project CGL2014-61610-EXP) for the financial support, as well as the Spanish Ministry of Education for the fellowship of MPR (FPU14/06782). ...
of social-ecological patterns and dynamics across contexts and scales. ...
doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104199
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Differential responses of Miocene rodent metacommunities to global climatic changes were mediated by environmental context
2018
Scientific Reports
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We applied multivariate statistical analyses and diversity tests using a large data matrix of rodent fossil sites in order to analyse long-term faunal changes. ...
The application of the metacommunity concept is key to study the macroecological and macroevolutionary processes behind the deep time dynamics of communities 6-8 and regional scale analyses allow us to ...
Acknowledgements We thank the PMMV Team (Paleoclimatology, Macroecology and Macroevolution of Vertebrates) for discussion and comments. ...
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20900-5
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pmcid:PMC5802738
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Navigating challenges and opportunities of land degradation and sustainable livelihood development in dryland social-ecological systems: a case study from Mexico
2012
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
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Desertification is an advanced stage of land degradation (the reduction or loss of biological and economic productivity) in arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid areas, resulting from climatic variations and ...
(i) Spatio-temporal transformations of Amapola dryland social -ecological system and the landscape-function scenario We assessed land-use change dynamics at the Amapola landscape scale and compared those ...
doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0349
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