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Land and life in the Anthropocene: Landscape reform (LAND)
A novel 4Ps framework to investigate land–life dynamics, which, for the first time, will connect perspectives on human–nonhuman relations, property-making, land regimes and land–climate systems.
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Vulnerabilidad Socio-Ambiental en la España rural (SEVERAS)
SEVERAS reunirá datos climáticos, censales, de uso del suelo y de desarrollo rural, hasta ahora desconectados, en una base de datos socioambiental única. Los datos se utilizán para calcular un índice de vulnerabilidad rural en España. El índice se elaborará y validará con las principales partes interesadas a través de talleres de planificación participativa («laboratorios…
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Unravelling the performance of co-managed small-scale fisheries. A case study in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
This doctoral project investigates the characteristics and outcomes of co-managed small-scale fisheries through, first, a systematic review of cases around the world and, second, examining a specific co-managed small-scale fishery located in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico. This protected area shelters an important fish diversity that is the main source of livelihoods for the…
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The roll-out of market-based environmental management in the European Union
Funded by the National Science Foundation of the USA, and led by the University of Indiana, this project analyzed the introduction of market-based conservation policies, particularly habitat banking, in the EU as a test-case for the global feasibility of such approaches. While market-based approaches to conservation have been in play in the USA for nearly…
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The adaptive nature of culture (LEK)
This project collected real world data to test a pathway through which cultural knowledge might enhance human adaptive strategy: the individual returns to culturally evolved and environment-specific knowledge. The project was based on six sets of comparable panel data collected in three foraging societies: the Tsimane’ (Amazonia), the Baka (Congo Basin), and the Punan Tubu…
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Sustainable Food Public Procurement in Spain: evidence to date and scaling opportunities
The project analyses existing initiatives in sustainable public food procurement in Spain (SFPP) to provide lessons into where and how to carry out the necessary modifications to achieve their long-term expectation and development in view of sustainability transitions in food systems. To do so, the project provides a database of current SFPP initiatives in Spain,…
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Socio-Ecological Heritization of Indigenous People and Community Conserved Areas in Taita hills, Kenya
Indigenous peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) are now emerging as one of the key paradigms of conservation promoted by policy makers like the IUCN, UNEP, UNDP, etc. Nevertheless, the recognition of pastoral ICCAs in Africa and particularly Kenya is practically non-existent, which is astounding given that pastoralism is a sector that directly affects hundreds…
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Sistematización de las Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza en España (E:SBN)
Como país especialmente vulnerable al cambio climático, España debe hacer frente a importantes retos, riesgos e impactos a los que debe adaptarse de manera proactiva y reactiva. La falta de recursos hídricos, un aumento de las temperaturas, el incremento en la intensidad y volumen de los episodios de lluvias extremas están generando sequías, escasez de…
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SimulPast
The project mission was to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological framework to model and simulate ancient societies and their relationship with environmental transformations. The project aimed to define practical guidelines for simulation in the humanities and consolidate a new research line in the use of formal modelling and simulation to investigate past human societies…
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Payments for Ecosystem Services: long-term Effectiveness and Motivations for the conservation of forest ecosystems (PES-EMOTIVE)
Global biodiversity loss and climate change mitigation are two of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. To partially address such challenges, Payments for Ecosystem or Environmental Services (PES) programs have disbursed billions of dollars of funding to rural communities and landowners in tropical and sub-tropical countries, conditional on the voluntary conservation of standing forests…
