Abstract The Tibetan Plateau hosts the world's largest alpine pastoral ecosystems,
dominated by the endemic sedges Kobresia pygmaea and Kobresia humilis. Owing to the …

▪ Abstract This review asks the question: What new avenues of social science enquiry are
suggested by new ecological thinking, with its focus on nonequilibrium dynamics, spatial …

This is an extraordinarily important book. It should become a classic. It is a must for every
development professional. It is a masterly analysis and overview of the evolution and …

Since humans worldwide obtain more than 99.7% of their food (calories) from the land and
less than 0.3% from the oceans and aquatic ecosystems, preserving cropland and …

Making Political Ecology presents a comprehensive view of an important new field in human
geography and interdisciplinary studies of nature-society relations. Tracing the development …

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and
development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it …

Islands of dense forest in the savanna of'forest'Guinea have long been regarded both by
scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

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Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy,
making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed …