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Autor:
Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba, Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, Anna Luise, Barron J. Orr, Uriel N. Safriel, Pamela S. Chasek
Publikováno v:
Environmental Science & Policy. 92:182-190
The recognition of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s (UNCCD) failure to reduce the rate of desertification and its social and economic repercussions, and the attribution of this failure to lack of strong political will rathe
Autor:
Pamela S. Chasek, Martine Maron, Geertrui Louwagie, Victor M. Castillo Sanchez, Annette Cowie, Barron J. Orr, Alexander Erlewein, Shelley Welton, Anna E. Tengberg, Sven Walter, Neville D. Crossman, Sara Minelli, Graciela Metternicht
Publikováno v:
Environmental Science & Policy. 79:25-35
The health and productivity of global land resources are declining, while demand for those resources is increasing. The aim of land degradation neutrality (LDN) is to maintain or enhance land-based natural capital and its associated ecosystem service
Autor:
Barron J. Orr, Jean-Luc Chotte
Publikováno v:
Land Use Policy. 109:105659
Land degradation impacts human well-being and biodiversity while increasing exposure to emerging infectious diseases. The primary indirect driver of land degradation is consumption, which increasingly involves agricultural products produced far away.
Publikováno v:
Journal of Environmental Management. 195:70-77
We evaluated the potential of an outranking Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis approach for assisting in the participatory assessment of dryland management actions implemented in the San Simon watershed, in southeastern Arizona, USA. We compared an out
Autor:
Nader Chalfoun, Randy Gimblett, David P. Guertin, Stuart E. Marsh, Scott B. Going, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Barron J. Orr
Publikováno v:
Frontiers of Architectural Research, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 63-73 (2017)
Research from multiple domains has provided insights into how neighborhood design can be improved to have a more favorable effect on physical activity, a concept known as walkability. The relevant research findings/hypotheses have been integrated int
Autor:
David P. Guertin, Stuart E. Marsh, Philip Stoker, Randy Gimblett, Barron J. Orr, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Nader Chalfoun
Publikováno v:
Landscape and Urban Planning. 190:103609
The use of greenspace has been linked to multiple wellbeing benefits, however there are many factors that influence whether or not residents visit greenspace. In this study, we explore the factors that influence the frequency of greenspace visitation
Publikováno v:
Journal of Arid Environments. 105:12-21
Desertification is a major environmental problem in South Africa with serious socio-economic consequences. Despite enormous efforts made to understand its causes and best management to combat desertification, little is known about the relation betwee
Publikováno v:
Rangelands. 34:26-33
T he world is becoming more connected and inte- grated with technology by the minute, and the academic world is no exception. Students are of the Digital Age, and faculty struggle to keep up. Despite the technological literacy of students, schools an
Autor:
Mario Rojo, Marcia Moreno-Báez, Rene Loaiza, Tad Pfister, William W. Shaw, Richard Cudney-Bueno, Barron J. Orr, Jorge Torre-Cosio
Publikováno v:
Ocean & Coastal Management. 55:111-127
Fishers’ knowledge collected through a rapid appraisal process that involved semi-structured interviews in 17 fishing communities in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico, was used to understand the spatial and temporal scales at which small-scal
Publikováno v:
Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 96:1386-1395
Despite many advances in the field of computational reliability analysis, the efficient estimation of the reliability of a system with multiple failure modes remains a persistent challenge. Various sampling and analytical methods are available, but t