Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Within the broad discourses of environmental change, sustainability science, and
anthropogenic Earth-surface systems, a focused body of work involves the coupled …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present
urbanization is often referred to as an'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth …

A growing number of regions in the developing world are targeted by transnational investors
who are acquiring large amounts of land and natural resources. Driven by the increasing …

Soil quality degrades when natural forests are converted to human-managed ecosystems.
Limited empirical evidence of such soil quality changes has been observed in tropical sub …

As cropland management and land use shifted towards more intensive practices, global
land degradation increased drastically. Understanding relationships between ecological …

The M ozambican state is currently working to relocate 7000 people from the interior of the L
impopo N ational P ark (LNP), itself part of the G reat L impopo T ransfrontier P ark (GLTP) …

This paper proposes planetary rural geographies to counter the narrative of planetary
urbanisation, which has contended that the whole planet has been urbanised and can be …

In 1991, Ethiopia's development strategy positioned smallholder farmers in a vital role in
increasing agricultural productivity that could serve as a growth engine for the overall …

A systematic understanding of the dynamics of land consumption is extremely important for
human well-being and especially vital for the ecological balance of the sub-Saharan Africa …