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Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process is time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can…

TABLE OF CONTENTS Monika Kopeck´a, Harini Nagendra and Andrew Millington Urban Land Systems: An Ecosystems Perspective doi: 10.3390/land7010005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff Urban Growth Dynamics in Perth, Western Australia: Using Applied Remote Sensing…

Globally, our food system is not sustainable, does not provide adequate nutrition to everyone on the planet and, at the same time, changes to our climate threaten the future of farming as we know it (a quote from Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change, final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, 2012). Agriculture is both part of the problem and…

Soil health is a pressing global issue that sits at the heart of three UN conventions (UNCBD, UNCCD and UNFCCC). There is an urgent need to mobilize nature-based solutions to address the challenges of climate change. Global soils contain two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere – however, by working with nature and improving soil health, increased carbon sequestration can help to reduce…

The circular economy has great potential to help meet global sustainability targets and the Paris Agreement's goals in particular. The built environment, consuming almost half of the world's resources extracted every year and responsible for a massive environmental footprint, is a fundamental sector in the transition from a linear to a circular, more sustainable world. Moving towards…

Land and other natural resources in many developing countries remain a fundamental part of people’s cultural identity, social relations, livelihood strategies and economic well-being. However, great setbacks are still experienced in terms of tenure security, natural resources governance and territorial/landscape development because of existing inequality between men and women in access to land…