The usefulness of the ecosystem services framework (ESF) to emphasize relationships between agriculture and ecosystems has received little attention, and studies applying ESF to understand links between ecosystem services and rice production systems are lacking. This chapter tries to fill this gap by combining the ecosystem services (ES) and dis-se...
Ecosystem Service (ES) mapping has become a key tool in scientific assessments of human-nature interactions and is being increasingly used in environmental planning and policy-making. However, the associated epistemic uncertainty underlying these maps often is not systematically considered. This paper proposes a basic procedure to present areas wit...
L'année 2015 a été déclarée Année Internationale des Sols par les Nations Unies. A cette occasion, un événement de sensibilisation du grand public et du jeune public, à la connaissance des sols, a eu lieu à Madagascar du 8 au 19 décembre 2015. Cette opération a été co-organisée par l'IRD (UMR Eco&Sols) et le LRI (laboratoire des RadioIsotopes de l'...
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In Brazil, market-based instruments focusing on land use dimensions are increasingly promoted as a means to make public environmental policies effective. Landowners and farmers call for more flexible regulations and economic incentives to adopt ecologically sound practices, while public agencies and conservation NGOs seek new ways of financing and ...
