Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests

M Pratzer, Á Fernández-Llamazares, P Meyfroidt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise
lost to agricultural expansion. Yet which conditions enable such sparing or whether …

Simulating land use and land cover change under contrasting levels of policy enforcement and its spatially-explicit impact on tropical forest landscapes in Ecuador

M Lippe, L Rummel, S Günter - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This study simulates the future impact of land use and land cover (LULC) change and the
enforcement of policy bundles on the multi-functionality of tropical forest landscapes. It …

Auctioning approaches for ecosystem services–Evidence and applications

M Kindu, TLN Mai, LR Bingham, JG Borges… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Auctions have attracted growing attention as bidding mechanisms for soliciting or allocating
payments for a wide range of ecosystem services (ES). This paper reviews the latest …

optimLanduse: A package for multiobjective land‐cover composition optimization under uncertainty

K Husmann, V von Groß, K Bödeker… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How to simultaneously combat biodiversity loss and maintain ecosystem functioning while
improving human welfare remains an open question. Optimization approaches have proven …

[HTML][HTML] Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types

T Knoke, P Biber, T Schula, J Fibich, B Gang - Forest Policy and Economics, 2025 - Elsevier
Increasingly uncertain decision outcomes prevail in forest management and hamper
choosing a single optimal management alternative. Confronting all management …

Probabilistic economic analysis of a weather-based adaptive disease management strategy-the case of myrtle rust in New Zealand nurseries

L Dowling, J Monge, R Beresford - Biological Invasions, 2024 - Springer
In agricultural systems, responsive management can mitigate the effects of risk and
uncertainty by facilitating adaptation to changing conditions. A tool for evaluating …

[PDF][PDF] Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types

T Knoke, P Biber, T Schula, J Fibich… - Forest Policy and …, 2024 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Increasingly uncertain decision outcomes prevail in forest management and hamper
choosing a single optimal management alternative. Confronting all management …

Influence of Agricultural Expansion and Human Disturbance on the Encounter Rates of Nocturnal Mammals in Tropical Hill Forests in Bangladesh

H Al-Razi, M Campera, S Hasan, M Maria, V Nijman… - Ecologies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agricultural expansion has had a detrimental effect on tropical forests and the animal
communities that depend on them. Agroforestry systems, however, with their more complex …

Understanding and modelling the ambiguous impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation

T Knoke, E Gosling, E Reith - Journal of Land Use Science, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Few land-allocation models consider the impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation.
We provide a concept to integrate off-farm income in a mechanistic multiple-objective land …

Incentive Design for Sustainable Practices in Smallholder Supply Chains

Y Shi, JF de Zegher, Y Zheng - Available at SSRN, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Sustainable practices by farmers and ranchers can achieve 13% of needed carbon
emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement, but adoption rate remains low, particularly …