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Volume 6 Number 1 Part March Year 2017

21 articles in this issue 

Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono

Forest lands in Indonesia are classified as state lands and subject to management under agreements allocated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. There has been a long-standing tension between the ministry and local communities who argue that they... see more

 

Baolei Zhang, Qiaoyun Zhang, Chaoyang Feng, Qingyu Feng and Shumin Zhang

Long-term intensive land use/cover changes (LUCCs) of the Yellow River Delta (YRD) have been happening since the 1960s. The land use patterns of the LUCCs are crucial for bio-diversity conservation and/or sustainable development. This study quantified pat... see more

 

Sandra L. Haire, Jonathan D. Coop and Carol Miller

The spatial patterns resulting from large fires include refugial habitats that support surviving legacies and promote ecosystem recovery. To better understand the diverse ecological functions of refugia on burn mosaics, we used remotely sensed data to qua... see more

 

Rahel Hamad, Heiko Balzter and Kamal Kolo

Halgurd Sakran National Park (HSNP) is Iraq’s first designated national park, located in the Kurdistan Region, which has suffered multiple armed conflicts over the past decades. This study assesses how vegetation dynamics have affected the landscape struc... see more

 

Jifei Ban, Richard Arnott and Jacob L. Macdonald

The standard method of identifying subcenters is due to Giuliano and Small. While simple, robust and easy to apply, because it uses absolute employment density and employment cutoffs, it identi?es “too few” subcenters at the metropolitan periphery. This p... see more

 

Agustín Fuentes and Marcus Baynes-Rock

We are in the Anthropocene. For millennia, human actions have been shaping the world to the degree that they are inscribed in the geological and ecological record. Recently, this has been occurring with increasing speed and influence. This means we need t... see more

 

Eli D. Lazarus

Given incontrovertible evidence that humans are the most powerful agents of environmental change on the planet, research has begun to acknowledge and integrate human presence and activity into updated descriptions of the world’s biomes as “anthromes”. Thu... see more

 

James D. Langston, Rebecca A. Riggs, Yazid Sururi, Terry Sunderland and Muhammad Munawir

Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presented by rapidly spreading estate crops in the frontier of the agricultural market economy. Smallholder communities are subject to considerable speculation by ... see more

 

Manfred Rösch, Harald Biester, Arno Bogenrieder, Eileen Eckmeier, Otto Ehrmann, Renate Gerlach, Mathias Hall, Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder, Ludger Herrmann, Birgit Kury, Jutta Lechterbeck, Wolfram Schier and Erhard Schulz

Long-term slash-and-burn experiments, when compared with intensive tillage without manuring, resulted in a huge data set relating to potential crop yields, depending on soil quality, crop type, and agricultural measures. Cultivation without manuring or fa... see more

 

James A. Lutz, John R. Matchett, Leland W. Tarnay, Douglas F. Smith, Kendall M. L. Becker, Tucker J. Furniss and Matthew L. Brooks

Fire is one of the principal agents changing forest carbon stocks and landscape level distributions of carbon, but few studies have addressed how accurate carbon accounting of fire-killed trees is or can be. We used a large number of forested plots (1646)... see more

 

Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff

Earth observation data can provide valuable assessments for monitoring the spatial extent of (un)sustainable urban growth of the world’s cities to better inform planning policy in reducing associated economic, social and environmental costs. Western Austr... see more

 

Siewe Siewe, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec and Beth Caniglia

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to... see more

 

Jeffrey Sayer, Chris Margules and Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono

Recent decades have seen a rapid movement towards decentralising forest rights and tenure to local communities and indigenous groups in both developing and developed nations. Attribution of local and community rights to forests appears to be gathering inc... see more

 

Haftay Hailu

The objective of this study is to analyse the phytodiversity, distribution, herb biomass and physico-chemical conditions of the vegetation system in the context of communal continuous open grazing and enclosed grazing management practices in the Harishin ... see more

 

Giulia Sofia and Paolo Tarolli

Amongst human practices, agricultural surface-water management systems represent some of the largest integrated engineering works that shaped floodplains during history, directly or indirectly affecting the landscape. As a result of changes in agricultura... see more

 

Isaline Jadin, Patrick Meyfroidt, Juan Carlos Zamora Pereira and Eric F. Lambin

International market forces have played an increasingly important role in shaping land use dynamics through complex supply chains. In Costa Rica, the shift from a net loss to a net gain in forest cover was facilitated by forest plantations and the replace... see more