Landscape Management Articles & Analysis
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To support the transition to sustainable and climate-resilient management of forests and landscapes at scale, Project 2 aims to first, scale-up climate-informed participatory land use planning, strengthen land tenure security, improve forest law enforcement and ensure access to sustainable financing; second, address key drivers of deforestation and degradation ...
Perfect Planting with the Power of Perlite Whether you’re a home gardener, a commercial grower, a nursery operator, or anyone else that wants the absolute strongest, healthiest plants for their application, you know that health begins in the soil. In fact, poor plant growth and other plant health issues in everything from turf grass to vegetables can be caused by soil problems, including: ...
Bagging Bark - RMGroup’s automated packaging turnkey solution upscales Scotbark’s production . RMGroup has recently installed a fully automated packaging system at Scotbark, a Scottish bark manufacturer and landscape supplies specialist. The investment is due to a significant increase in demand for soils, barks and related products and will enable the firm to upscale production and ...
In order to make the control even more effective, a hand auger was developed in collaboration with Landscape Management Flevoland to remove the roots: the giant hogweed ...
Since the species largest risks of extinction within the foreseeable future are due to changes in land use and the effects of climate change, the 4(d) rule promotes conservation and encourages landscape management with an emphasis in the northern region where the species long-term success is most likely. ...
It has become mainstream for most of the software solutions including the quality management software. Cloud-based solutions have completely changed the way quality was managed, fostering a culture of continuous improvement through a proactive problem-solving approach. ...
Trees are one of the most important plants in a landscape design. Tree spade is the latest equipment for mass-cultivation in nurseries, for transplantation and production your landscaping dream successful with with the best possible practice. The tree spade machines, which blades are operated by hydraulic systems, are moved by different vehicle like tractors, excavators, skid steers, back-hoe ...
Areas of focus should include strategies for foliar bacterial disease management from pre-seeding to harvest, diagnosing and managing soil borne plant pathogens including nematodes, and how soil health impacts crop productivity and stress tolerance. ...
Human population is expected to soar to between 9 and 10 billion by 2050, with a growing number of people moving into the middle class and requiring more energy, natural resources and animal products. This combination of population growth and resource demand will put increased pressure on the planet’s resources, a fact that has interested parties from academia, nonprofits, government, ...
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The Ecosystem Alliance’s call for action Over the last decade, various commitments towards sustainability of agro-commodity value chains have been made by governments and private sector. Relevant in this context is the recent zerodeforestation pledges included in the New York declaration on Forests. Despite important progress, translating these commitments into effective implementation ...
While water related hazards such as floods and droughts are on the increase, the degradation of wetlands and other ecosystems erodes naturefs ability to regulate these hazards. In this workshop, we make the case for the need to integrate ecosystems in resilience practice and the importance of landscape level planning to reduce disaster risk. Landscape level planning in Delta areas This workshop ...
To examine the significance of the concept in densely populated industrialized countries, this case study investigates its use in several sustainable landscape management projects in the Netherlands. Guidance by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project (TEEB) for local and regional policy and management serves as a reference. ...
Under natural conditions order is created by interactions between water, temperature, chemical gradients, ground surface, and organisms. However, in the 'developed' landscape, order is replaced by randomness. The de-coupling of energy and water cycles is observed in eutrophication, as irreversible matter losses break closed metabolic cycles in coenotic structures. Another cause of landscape ...
Results indicate that agroforestry and grass buffers on grazed and row crop management sites significantly reduce runoff, sediment, TN, and TP losses to streams. ...
Depletion of fossil fuels and climate change necessitate a transition to sustainable energy systems that make efficient use of renewable energy sources. Recently, the disciplines of building engineering, architecture and urban planning have begun embracing 'second-law thinking' to reduce energy consumption in the built environment. Second-law thinking, however, is not yet a part of spatial ...
This is a particularly challenging task in complex and diverse project landscapes. Project portfolio management (PPM) can be a viable framework for knowledge and innovation management in such landscapes. ...
The community-based promotion and marketing of local agriculture is causing some governments and public and private organizations throughout the world to recognize UA as a strategic mechanism to enable urban communities to deal with food security in the context of neo-liberalism, climate change, pandemics, natural disasters, human and environmental health, carbon footprint, biosecurity/terrorism, ...
As Malaysia leapfrogs into being a developed country by the year 2020, the rapid urbanisation and industrial activities are at present increasingly taking place and these may in a long run contribute to significant impact on the environment. Urbanisation although seems as an improvement and proof for an economically strong country, the price that needs to be paid often escalates than the expected ...
This paper investigates two fundamental questions in landscape ecology: what influence does landscape context, or the composition of the matrix, have on an animals’ response to landscape structure, and how does this relationship extrapolate between landscapes? We investigate how the distribution of North American red squirrels ...
The rate and trajectory of technological progress in China is confined by two important factors, i.e., being a developing country as well as in transition from a command economy to a market economy. Being a developing country means that learning and imitation will be of primary concern in technological progress. Being an economy in transition implies that the national innovation system is also ...