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Land, Volume 8, Issue 3

March 2019 - 14 articles

Cover Story: Extensive land use changes in forest frontier landscapes affect the supply of ecosystem services (ES), as well as human well-being. This study assesses the trade-offs experienced with respect to 10 locally important ES from land user perspectives using social valuation techniques in the Tanintharyi Region of Myanmar, a forest frontier landscape facing the expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations. The results show that while intact forests provide the most highly valued ES bundle, the conversion to rubber plantations causes fewer negative trade-offs than that to oil palm plantations. The study concludes that, from local perspectives, the impact of ES trade-offs highly depends on access to land and opportunities to adapt to change. View this paper
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Articles (14)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,914 Views
14 Pages

22 March 2019

Characterizing the spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem responses to drought is important in understanding the impact of water stress on tropical ecosystems and projecting future land cover transitions in the East African tropics. Through the analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,192 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2019

Intensive land use activities worldwide have caused considerable loss to many ecosystem services. The dynamics of these threats must be quickly investigated to ensure timely update of management strategies and policies. Compared with complex models,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,961 Views
23 Pages

19 March 2019

We established the statistical relationships between seasonal weather variables and average annual wheat yield (Hard Red Spring and Durum wheat: Triticum spp.) for the period of 1979–2016 for 296 rural municipalities (RMs) throughout six soil z...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,998 Views
16 Pages

Land Use Evaluation over the Jema Watershed, in the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia

  • Mintesinot Taye,
  • Belay Simane,
  • Benjamin F. Zaitchik,
  • Yihenew G. Selassie and
  • Shimelis Setegn

19 March 2019

Generating land capability class guidelines at a watershed scale has become a priority in sustainable agricultural land use. This study analyzed the area of cultivated land use situated on the non-arable land-capability class in the Jema watershed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
23,552 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2019

Deforestation is recognized as a major driver of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. It also disturbs natural processes such as biogeochemical, hydrological, and ecological cycles. In Malawi, deforestation is estimated to be responsible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,184 Views
24 Pages

14 March 2019

Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is one of the pioneering cities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region that have recently prepared urban sustainability agendas for their cities. Nonetheless, the recently deve...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,313 Views
30 Pages

13 March 2019

Ticks are responsible for the largest number of transmissions of vector-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere, which makes the risk from tick bites a serious public health problem. Biological scientific research and prevention studies are importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,482 Views
19 Pages

Local Perspectives on Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs in a Forest Frontier Landscape in Myanmar

  • Melanie Feurer,
  • Andreas Heinimann,
  • Flurina Schneider,
  • Christine Jurt,
  • Win Myint and
  • Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer

12 March 2019

Extensive land use changes in forest frontier landscapes are leading to trade-offs in the supply of ecosystem services (ES) with, in many cases, as yet unknown effects on human well-being. In the Tanintharyi Region of Myanmar, a forest frontier lands...

  • Feature Paper
  • Essay
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,041 Views
15 Pages

4 March 2019

The recent global surge in large-scale foreign land acquisitions marks a radical transformation of the global economic and political landscape. Since land that attracts capital often becomes the site of expulsions and displacement, it also leads to n...

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