Hamilton, Serena H. Merritt, Wendy S. Carter, Lucy Chakraborty, Arnab Cosijn, Michaela Lim-Camacho, Lilly Mishra, Rajeshwar Syme, Geoff Das, Mahanambrota Ray, Dhananjay
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Regional Environmental Change
Affecting behavioural change is a common underlying goal across environmental and agricultural sciences, from climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation, water management, to crop diversification. However, many projects fail to drive or sustain change despite sound science and good intentions. This paper draws on existing t...
Benansio, John Sebit Funk, Stephan Michael Lino, John Ladu Balli, Johnson Jiribi Dante, John Ohitai Dendi, Daniele Fa, Julia E. Luiselli, Luca
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Regional Environmental Change
The Sudd in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile’s Baḥr al-Jabal section, is one of the largest and most important wetlands in the world. Communities in the region almost exclusively depend on fisheries for food and livelihoods. Although threatened by over-exploitation and habitat changes, fish populations are also affected by climate change. Usin...
Bevione, Michela Courtonne, Jean-Yves Buclet, Nicolas Longaretti, Pierre-Yves Desvaux, Quentin
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Regional Environmental Change
Alpine valleys constitute fragile environments and are very sensitive to environmental change. Current trends constitute major upheavals challenging these communities’ adaptation abilities. Coupling quantitative modeling and qualitative social sciences analyses is necessary to provide insights on sources of vulnerability but such endeavors remain r...
Zajch, Andrew Hewer, Micah J. Gough, William A. Udo, Keiko
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Regional Environmental Change
Coastal tourism is impacted by regional environmental change, including sea-level rise and climatic change. A case study at five Japanese beaches was conducted to determine the relative difference in coastal and climatic changes that are important for recreational beach tourism. Future climate conditions and projections of shoreline changes due to ...
Copes-Gerbitz, Kelsey Hagerman, Shannon M Daniels, Lori D
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Regional environmental change
The dominant command and control fire governance paradigm is proven ineffective at coping with modern wildfire challenges. In response, jurisdictions globally are calling for transformative change that will facilitate coexisting with future fires. Enacting transformative change requires attention to historical governance attributes that may enable ...
Tschanz, Léïta Arlot, Marie-Pierre Philippe, Félix Vidaud, Laure Morin, Samuel Maldonado, Eric George, Emmanuelle Spiegelberger, Thomas
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Regional Environmental Change
Strategies for adapting to climate change are crucial to sustain human development while ensuring the supply of ecosystem services, especially in mid-altitude mountains. This paper presents main methodological developments and results of an inter- and transdisciplinary research that was applied to the Vercors massif in southeastern France. The appr...
Rakotovao, Narindra H. Rasoarinaivo, Angelina R. Razafimbelo, Tantely Blanchart, Eric Albrecht, Alain
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Regional Environmental Change
Agroforestry systems (AFS) are recognized as one of the practices with high potential to store carbon in soils. In the Itasy region, AFS were introduced to improve farmers’ livelihoods by diversifying income sources and to address problems related to soil degradation. Previous studies in the region have shown the potential of AFS to store organic c...
Talandier, Magali Donsimoni, Myriam
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Regional Environmental Change
The globalisation of exchanges has resulted in excessive growth of material and immaterial flows. The disconnection among the supply, production, decision-making and consumption sites generates new spatial interdependencies. It determines local socio-economic dynamics and affects ecosystems. In this context, the question arises if territorial capab...
Ramírez-Mejía, Diana Levers, Christian Mas, Jean-François
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Regional Environmental Change
The surging demand for commodity crops has led to rapid and severe agricultural frontier expansion globally and has put producing regions increasingly under pressure. However, knowledge about spatial patterns of agricultural frontier dynamics, their leading spatial determinants, and socio-ecological trade-offs is often lacking, hindering contextual...
Almudi, Tiago Sinclair, A John
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Regional environmental change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report reveals vast evidence of increasing climate variability and a higher frequency and intensity of extreme events. Vulnerable regions to such disturbances have been widely studied in some areas, but considerably less is known about other vulnerable regions that are key to global cli...
