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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"land sparing"”.
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A comparison of the costs of delivering conservation through land sharing and land sparing
… climate crisis demand overhaul of existing land use policies which have failed to reconcile food production and environmental conservation. In Europe, most existing policies compensate farmers to voluntarily implement land-sharing measures, commonly referred to as wildlife-friendly farming, …
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Reconciling conservation, agriculture and household welfare: Testing the suitability of the land sparing and sharing model in Western Uganda
… and natural habitats are driving competition for land. In the face of rapid population growth and climate change there is urgent need to find ways of balancing the multiple requirements that people place on landscapes. The land sparing and sharing model is a simple and powerful way of framing the …
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Optimising the trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Neotropics
… concerns is of particular importance: rangelands cover approximately one quarter of the world’s ice-free land and livestock consume over one third of all calories from crops. In addition, livestock, particularly ruminants are extremely inefficient and use more land, nitrogen and water than …
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Integrated or monofunctional landscapes? Agent-based modelling for evaluating the socioeconomic implications of land use interventions
The effectiveness of land sharing and land sparing (LS/LS) approaches to conservation in the face of rising agricultural demands has been widely debated. While numerous studies have investigated the LS/LS framework from an ecological lens (yield-biodiversity relationship) the relevance of the …
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Land use, food production, and the future of tropical forest species in Ghana
… through wildlife-friendly farming practices, or sparing land for nature by using high-yielding farming methods on the smallest possible area to reduce the need to convert natural habitats. Previous theoretical work shows that understanding the relationship between population density and yield for …
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Strategies for sustainable livestock production in Brazil and the European Union
… production occupies 50-75% of agricultural land, contributes 15% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and drives agricultural expansion in the tropics through the global trade in animal feed. This thesis therefore evaluates two strategies for shrinking the environmental impact of the …
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Large-scale optimization for green logistics and stochastic resource allocation for food security
… chains: carbon tax, technology innovation, or land sparing? Reducing carbon emissions of food supply chains has increasingly received attention from businesses and policymakers. In order to propose sound policies aimed at lowering such emissions, policy makers favor tools that are informative …
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Impact of environmental law enforcement on deforestation, land use and natural regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon
… region, on reducing deforestation, reshaping land use change, through livestock, agriculture and natural restoration, and the persistence of natural regeneration. First, I assess the influence of law enforcement on forest loss reduction through a spatial analysis at the municipality level. The …
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Managing the carnivore comeback: assessing the adaptive capacity of the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) to cohabit with humans in shared landscapes
… difficult species to preserve in our modern day landscapes. Although large carnivores are usually considered as the epitomes of wilderness, because of human population growth and habitat fragmentation they are inexorably and increasingly faced with the need to live in human-modified landscapes. …
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The biodiversity and climate impacts of alternative approaches to meeting demands for tropical timber and forest restoration
… and ecosystem services within tropical landscapes of the future. First is timber production, which already exerts substantial impacts on forest species and the climate through selective logging and the development of intensive tree plantations. Second is the restoration of large tracts …