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Journal / article | 2016
Müller-Hansen, F., Cardoso, M. F., Dalla-Nora, E. L., Donges, J. F., Heitzig, J., Kurths, J., and Thonicke, K. 2016. Patterns of land-cover transitions from satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, Nonlin. Processes Geophys. Discuss., doi:10.5194/npg-2016-53, in review
Changes in land-use systems in tropical regions, including deforestation, are a key challenge for global sustainability because of their huge impacts on green-house gas emissions, local climate and biodiversity. However, the dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in regions of frontier expansion such as the Brazilian Amazon is not yet well understood because of the complex interplay of ecological and socio-economic driver...
Dile, Y.T., Rockström, J., Karlberg, L., 2016. Suitability of Water Harvesting in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia: A First Step towards a Mesoscale Hydrological Modeling Framework. Adv. Meteorol. 2016, 12. doi:ttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5935430
Extreme rainfall variability has been one of the major factors to famine and environmental degradation in Ethiopia. The potential for water harvesting in the Upper Blue Nile Basin was assessed using two GIS-based Multicriteria Evaluation methods: (1) a Boolean approach to locate suitable areas for in situ and ex situ systems and (2) a weighted overlay analysis to classify suitable areas into different water harvesting suitabil...
Report | 2016
Wiklund, L., Sellberg, M., Hård af Segerstad, L. 2016.Rapport över resiliensanalys av Eskilstuna kommuns livsmedelförsörjning. Eskilstuna kommun och Stockholm Resilience Centre
Denna rapport är framtagen som del av ett forskningsprojekt som undersöke huruvida metoden resiliensanalys, ”Resilience Assessment”, är användbar och till hjälp inom kommunal förvaltning. Det är ett led i metodutveckling av resiliensanalysen. Resultaten avseende livsmedelsförsörjningen i Eskilstuna kommun är vad som framkommit under processen och har inte varit själv forskningsfrågan. Eskilstuna kommuns arbete har letts av Lar...
Book chapter | 2015
Kurpiers, L.A., B. Schulte-Herbrüggen, I. Ejotre, D.M. Reeder. 2015. Bushmeat and emerging infectious diseases: Lessons from Africa. In: Angelici, F.A. (Ed.), Problematic Wildlife: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach. Springer International Publishing, New York, USA pp. 507–551
Zoonotic diseases are the main contributor to emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and present a major threat to global public health. Bushmeat is an important source of protein and income for many African people, but bushmeat-related activities have been linked to numerous EID outbreaks, such as Ebola, HIV, and SARS. Importantly, increasing demand and commercialization of bushmeat is exposing more people to pathogens and fac...
Journal / article | 2015
Takeuchi, K., K. Ichikawa, T. Elmqvist. Satoyama landscape as social–ecological system: historical changes and future perspective. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2015.11.001
Many production landscapes around the world have been sustained through appropriate use and management of natural resources, but many are now facing overuse or underuse. This paper explores future perspectives on the satoyama landscape (traditional Japanese rural landscape) as a social–ecological system through an overview of its transformation. Two phases in the human–nature relationship are observed: before the fossil ...
Ouedraogo, I., J. Barron, S.D. Tumbo, F.C. Kahimba. Land cover transition in northern Tanzania. Land Degradation and Development DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2461
Land conversion in sub-Saharan Africa has profound biophysical, ecological, political and social consequences for human well-being and ecosystem services. Understanding the process of land cover changes and transitions is essential for good ecosystem management policy that would lead to improved agricultural production, human well-being and ecosystems health. This study aimed to assess land cover transitions in a typical se...
Dile, Y.T., L. Karlberg, P. Daggupati, R. Srinivasan, D. Wiberg, J. Rockström. Assessing the implications of water harvesting intensification on upstream-downstream ecosystem services: A case study in the Lake Tana basin. Science of the Total Environment doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.065
Water harvesting systems have improved productivity in various regions in sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly, they can help retain water in landscapes, build resilience against droughts and dry spells, and thereby contribute to sustainable agricultural intensification. However, there is no strong empirical evidence that shows the effects of intensification of water harvesting on upstream–downstream social–ecological systems at a la...
Sinare, H., L.J. Gordon. 2015. Ecosystem services from woody vegetation on agricultural lands in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 200: 186–199.
Investment in woody vegetation to counter land degradation and improve livelihoods is increasing, primarily revitalized by efforts to enhance carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation. Sudano-Sahelian West Africa is in focus for several interventions to increase woody vegetation for improved livelihoods. However, the knowledge on how woody vegetation maintains landscape productivity and contributes to livelihoods is w...
Rubio, L., Ö. Bodin, L. Brotons, S. Saura. 2015. Connectivity conservation priorities for individual patches evaluated in the present landscape: How durable and effective are they in the long term? Ecography 38: 782–791.
One of the most widespread approaches for setting spatially-explicit priorities for connectivity conservation consists in evaluating the effects of the individual removal of each habitat patch (one at a time) from the landscape. It however remains unknown the degree to which such priorities are valid and reliable in the longer term, as subsequent habitat losses and other disruptions accumulate in the landscape. We compared t...
Rockström, J., M. Falkenmark. 2015. Agriculture: Increase water harvesting in Africa. Nature 519: 283–285.
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