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John W. Bruce
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 13
Citations - 3651
John W. Bruce is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 3361 citations.
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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths
Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Helmut Geist,Samuel Babatunde Agbola,Arild Angelsen,John W. Bruce,Oliver T. Coomes,Rodolfo Dirzo,Günther Fischer,Carl Folke,P.S. George,Katherine Homewood,Jacques Imbernon,Rik Leemans,Xiubin Li,Emilio F. Moran,Michael Mortimore,P. S. Ramakrishnan,John F. Richards,Helle Skånes,Will Steffen,Glenn Davis Stone,Uno Svedin,Tom A. Veldkamp,Coleen Vogel,Jianchu Xu +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track some of the major myths on driving forces of land cover change and propose alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence, concluding that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide.
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Tenures in Transition, Tenures in Conflict: Examples from the Zimbabwe Social Forest1
TL;DR: In this article, the landscape of rural communities are commonly divided into areas in which distinctive resource uses are practiced and for which there exist particular types of property rights, and conflict may involve overlapping tenure niches.