Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) policies, projects,
and interventions are among the most prominent of recent attempts to mitigate climate …

The most recent IPCC assessment has shown an important role for negative emissions
technologies (NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 C cost-effectively. However, a bottom-up …

Land grabbing represents a fundamental problem in the transitional and post-transitional
economies. The transfer of land property rights impose a dramatically change of agricultural …

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population
centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and …

Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead
to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger …

Across the world,'green grabbing'–the appropriation of land and resources for environmental
ends–is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on …

Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

Executive summary Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution
of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health …

After tracing the antecedents of the concept and considering its intersection in social
innovation research, we put forward the argument that the Anthropocene concept points to …

The popular term 'land grabbing', while effective as activist terminology, obscures vast
differences in the legality, structure and outcomes of commercial land deals and deflects …