Agriculture / biodiversity trade-offs

Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing
Aligning food production with biodiversity conservation is one of the greatest challenges of our time. One framing of this challenge is …
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Finite land resources and competition
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and …
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Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward
To address the challenges of biodiversity conservation and commodity production, a framework has been proposed that distinguishes …
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Beyond ‘land sparing versus land sharing’: environmental heterogeneity, globalization and the balance between agricultural production and nature conservation
By addressing the trade-offs between food production and biodiversity conservation at landscape and ecoregion scales, the land …
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Analytical solutions to trade-offs between size of protected areas and land-use intensity
Land-use change is affecting Earth’s capacity to support both wild species and a growing human population. The question is how …
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Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes
Many traditional farming landscapes have high conservation value. Conservation policy in such landscapes typically follows a …
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Conservation: limits of land sparing
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Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread …
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