Thomas Sikor

TL;DR: A common representation is offered that frames cultural services, along with all ES, by the relative contribution of relevant ecological structures and functions and by applicable social evaluation approaches, which provides a foundation for merging ecological and social science epistemologies to define and integrate cultural services better within the broader ES framework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that access and property regarding natural resources are intimately bound up with the exercise of power and authority, and that the process of seeking authorizations for property claims also has the effect of granting authority to the authorizing politico-legal institution.

TL;DR: The Global Land Project has led advances by synthesizing land systems research across different scales and providing concepts to further understand the feedbacks between social and environmental systems, between urban and rural environments and between distant world regions as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated and compared the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania during the postsocialist transitional period from 1990 to 2005, using boosted regression trees.