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The socioeconomic factors that facilitate or constrain restoration management: Watershed rehabilitation and wet meadow (bofedal) restoration in the Bolivian Andes.
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Results suggest that land restoration projects that integrate community development into project planning and implementation will achieve greater success, including aligning restoration objectives with local motives and perceived benefits, and ensuring incentives are in place to stimulate long-term investments.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2018-03-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Land restoration & Restoration ecology.read more
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A global exploration of tidal wetland creation for nature-based flood risk mitigation in coastal cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a global scale analysis of the surface areas available for potential creation or restoration of tidal wetlands (salt marshes and mangrove forests) in front of 135 highly populated, flood-exposed coastal cities, as part of nature-based or hybrid strategies to buffer against coastal flood risks.
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Socio-economic outcomes of ecological infrastructure investments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how ecological infrastructure investments affect ten different socio-economic dimensions, such as income and food security in low and middle-income countries, and find that ecological infrastructure interventions primarily lead to positive outcomes for short-term income and natural capital, whereas positive outcome for other socioeconomic dimensions are less frequently observed.
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Livelihood security policy can support ecosystem restoration
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed livelihood security funding and opportunities for ecosystem restoration, drawing on India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the world's largest livelihood security program.
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The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration
TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a systematic literature review to investigate how incentive mechanisms are used to promote forest restoration, outcomes, and the biophysical and socio-economic factors that influence implementation and program success.
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Diffusion of Innovations
TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
Arun Agrawal,Clark C. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conceptual origins of the community, and the ways the term has been deployed in writings on resource use, and analyze those aspects of community most important to advocates for community's role in resource management.
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Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the complexity of land-use/cover change and propose a framework for a more general understanding of the issue, with emphasis on tropical regions, and argue that a systematic analysis of local-scale land use change studies, conducted over a range of timescales, helps to uncover general principles that provide an explanation and prediction of new land use changes.