Effects of Recent Land-Use Practices on Soil Nutrients and Succession under Tropical Wet Forest in Costa Rica

Conservation is often perceived as the responsibility of the landowners. If landowners fail to benefit from conservation, they inevitably view it as profit-eroding and it becomes less attractive than alternative land-use practices. Costa Rica has successfully internalised the benefits provided by forestry environmental services. Valuable lessons could be learnt from the Costa Rican experience in using economic incentives for environmental management.

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Implications of Shrimp Fishing and Coastal Land Use for the Artisanal Fishery of Costa Rica

Culture & Agriculture ◽

10.1525/cag.1988.-.34.8 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol - (34) ◽

pp. 8-11

Author(s):

Peter C. Phillips

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Artisanal Fishery ◽

Coastal Land Use ◽

Coastal Land

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PETANI KUNINGAN DALAM PUSARAN KONFLIK KELAS

JURNAL PENELITIAN ◽

10.28918/jupe.v13i2.721 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Nanang Susanto

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Land Use ◽

Action Research ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Soil Nutrients ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Cost Of Production ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Participatory Observation

Penelitian ini menguji teori Marx yang mengatakan bahwa dalam proses kapitalisasi, petani lahan kecil akan tergusur oleh petani lahan besar. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode Participatory Action Research (PAR). Menggunakan teknik observasi partisipasi di lapangan, studi ini melakukan wawancara mendalam terhadap petani. Analisis data yang digunakan bersifat induktif. Penelitian ini menghasilkan kesimpulan, bahwa teori Marx tidak terjadi di malar Aman. Adapun penyebab menurunnya pertanian disebabkan menurunnya unsur hara tanah, mahalnya biaya produksi, alih fungsi lahan dan perubahan cuaca. Sedangkan strategi petani lahan kecil untuk mempertahankan kehidupan yaitu melakukan pola tanam tumpang sari, melakukan pekerjaan tambahan, dan mengatur keuangan.This study examines Marx's theory which says that in the process of capitalization, small land farmers will be displaced by large land farmers. This study uses a qualitative approach with the method of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Using the techniques of participatory observation in the field, the study conducted in-depth interviews on farmers. Analysis of the data used is inductive. This study led to the conclusion that Marx's theory does not happen in Aman malar. The cause of the decline of agriculture due to declining soil nutrients, the high cost of production, land use and climate change. While the strategies of small land farmers to sustain life is to do the planting patterns of intercropping, do extra work, and manage finances.

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Assessing the C stocks in various land use practices: A case study from sub-humid tropics of Eastern India

Proceedings of International Forestry and Environment Symposium ◽

10.31357/fesympo.v16i0.105 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 16 (0) ◽

Author(s):

S.L. Swamy ◽

A.M. Swamy

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Humid Tropics ◽

Eastern India ◽

C Stocks ◽

Land Use Practices

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Malaria risk and temperature: influences from global climate change and local land use practices.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1001629.374762 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Albert van Jaarsveld

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Land Use ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Malaria Risk ◽

Land Use Practices

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Accelerating Change

10.1093/oso/9780190865177.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Erin Stewart Mauldin

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

African Americans ◽

Labor Relations ◽

Cotton Production ◽

Economic Independence ◽

Contract Negotiations ◽

Reduced Frequency ◽

Ecological Event ◽

Land Use Practices ◽

Ecological Regime

Emancipation proved to be a far-reaching ecological event. Whereas the ecological regime of slavery had reinforced extensive land-use practices, the end of slavery weakened them. Freedpeople dedicated less time to erosion control and ditching and used contract negotiations and sharecropping arrangements to avoid working in a centrally directed gang. Understandably, freedpeople preferred to direct their own labor on an individual plot of land. The eventual proliferation of share-based or tenant contracts encouraged the physical reorganization of plantations. The combination of these two progressive alterations to labor relations tragically undermined African Americans’ efforts to achieve economic independence by tightening natural limits on cotton production and reducing blacks’ access to the South’s internal provisioning economy. The cessation, or even reduced frequency, of land maintenance on farms exacerbated erosion, flooding, and crops’ susceptibility to drought.

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Deferring Crisis

10.1093/oso/9780190865177.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Erin Stewart Mauldin

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Shifting Cultivation ◽

Crop Production ◽

Animal Husbandry ◽

Antebellum South ◽

Westward Expansion ◽

The Cost ◽

Land Use Practices ◽

Ecological Regime

This chapter explores the ecological regime of slavery and the land-use practices employed by farmers across the antebellum South. Despite the diverse ecologies and crop regimes of the region, most southern farmers employed a set of extensive agricultural techniques that kept the cost of farming down and helped circumvent natural limits on crop production and stock-raising. The use of shifting cultivation, free-range animal husbandry, and slaves to perform erosion control masked the environmental impacts of farmers’ actions, at least temporarily. Debates over westward expansion during the sectional crisis of the 1850s were not just about the extension of slavery, they also reflected practical concerns regarding access to new lands and fresh soil. Both were necessary for the continued profitability of farming in the South.

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