Spatial patterns in socioeconomic data reveal issues and trends that would otherwise be missed by data aggregation to political or other units. Geographic Information System (GIS) tools provide display and analysis capabilities that are underutilized by many social scientists. The present article...
This paper applies a spatial economic regression model to analyze the relation between deforestation in the period from 1989 to 1994 and access to roads and markets, ecological conditions, land tenure, and zoning policies in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The data come from a Geographic Information System ...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Mendez, P.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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[Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]
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Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This study used a time series of remote sensing data from 1973, 1990 and 1994 to assess sustainability of forest use in three villages in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. This time period is characterised by a shift among three separate, recognised management systems: indigenous management; timber con...
Dennis, R.A.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Puntodewo, A.
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[Forest cover change analysis as a proxy: sustainability assessment using remote sensing and GIS in West Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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Forest cover change analysis as a proxy: sustainability assessment using remote sensing and GIS in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Participatory mapping and GIS are both necessary to model the interactions betwen humans and their environment. A case study from the forest margin in the Congo Basin demonstrates how data from participatory community mapping and other social science methods can be prepared for quantitative model...
Robligio, V.
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Mala, W.A.
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Diaw, C.
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[Mapping landscapes: integrating GIS and social science methods to model human-nature relationships in southern Cameroon]
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Mapping landscapes: integrating GIS and social science methods to model human-nature relationships in southern Cameroon
Irrigation for smallholder farming systems is an important approach for sustainable intensification and increased productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa, provided investments in irrigation are properly targeted and accompanied by complementary improvements. Many GIS-based tools have been developed to...
Katic, Pamela G.
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Morris, J.
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[Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa
The agricultural sector in Nigeria provides a socio-economic resource base for exiting pervasive poverty, and transforming the economy. However, with the challenges posed by climate change through variability in rainfall, the agricultural livelihoods and poverty status of the population could be ...
Olayide, O.E.
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Alabi, T.
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[Between rainfall and food poverty: assessing vulnerability to climate change in an agricultural economy]
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Between rainfall and food poverty: assessing vulnerability to climate change in an agricultural economy
The Multipurpose Tree (MPT) species can fit into the farming systems of the East African region where low agricultural productivity, widespread land degradation and hence a diminishing capacity to support the growing human and livestock population are major problems. GIS has been used to develop ...
Conchedda, G.
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Berhe, Kahsay
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Jabbar, M.A.
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[A GIS analysis to target priority areas for adoption of five multipurpose tree species in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda]
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A GIS analysis to target priority areas for adoption of five multipurpose tree species in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
GIS-derived measures of location and space have increasingly been used in models of land use and ecology. However, they have made few inroads into the literature on technology adoption in developing countries, which continues to rely mainly on survey-derived information. Location, with all its di...
Staal, Steven J.
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Baltenweck, Isabelle
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Waithaka, M.M.
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Wolff, T. de
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Njoroge, L.
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[Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya]
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Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya
We describe the development of an open-source mapping and query utility. The impetus for its development came originally from the need to be able to locate, spatially, target populations of resource-poor livestock keepers in the developing world, and to identify livestock management interventions...
Quirós, Carlos
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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González Estrada, E.
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[GOBLET: an open-source geographic overlaying database and query module for spatial targeting in agricultural systems]
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GOBLET: an open-source geographic overlaying database and query module for spatial targeting in agricultural systems
The workshop held at Bioversity International in Rome, Italy, from 7 – 8 May 2015
Brought together a group of researchers and members of CGIAR centers, and other
institutions who are interested in modelling biodiversity and ESS using geospatial
data. The workshop focused on modeling at differe...
Rojas, T.
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[Report. Workshop on Integrating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Foresight Models.]
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Report. Workshop on Integrating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Foresight Models.