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Jeffrey Sayer
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 192
Citations - 12438
Jeffrey Sayer is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainable development & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 188 publications receiving 11063 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey Sayer include Utrecht University & Center for International Forestry Research.
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Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature
TL;DR: Key priorities are to improve technologies and policies that promote more ecologically efficient food production while optimizing the allocation of lands to conservation and agriculture.
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Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses
Jeffrey Sayer,Terry Sunderland,Jaboury Ghazoul,Jean-Laurent Pfund,Douglas Sheil,Douglas Sheil,Douglas Sheil,Erik Meijaard,Erik Meijaard,Michelle Venter,Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono,Michael Day,Claude Garcia,Claude Garcia,Cora van Oosten,Louise E. Buck +15 more
TL;DR: It is found the landscape approach has been refined in response to increasing societal concerns about environment and development tradeoffs and there has been a shift from conservation-orientated perspectives toward increasing integration of poverty alleviation goals.
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Plantation forests and biodiversity: oxymoron or opportunity
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of the function of plantation forests as habitat compared with other land cover, examine the effects on biodiversity at the landscape scale, and synthesise context-specific effects of plantation forestry on biodiversity.
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Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity?
G.Brockerhoff Eckehard,Hervé Jactel,A.Parrotta John,P.Quine Christopher,Jeffrey Sayer,L.Hawksworth David +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of the function of plantation forests as habitat compared with other land cover, examine the effects on biodiversity at the landscape scale, and synthesise context-specific effects of plantation forestry on biodiversity.
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Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries
Bruce M. Campbell,Douglas J. Beare,Elena M. Bennett,Jason M. Hall-Spencer,John Ingram,Fernando Jaramillo,Rodomiro Ortiz,Navin Ramankutty,Jeffrey Sayer,Drew Shindell +9 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale, through examining nine planetary boundaries, or safe limits: land-system change, freshwater use, biogeoc...