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A combination of methods needed to assess the actual use of provisioning ecosystem services

scholarly article by Laura Vang Rasmussen et al published February 2016 in Ecosystem services

A fresh look at shifting cultivation: Fallow length an uncertain indicator of productivity

Adaptation of Human Coping Strategies in a Small Island Society in the SW Pacific—50 Years of Change in the Coupled Human–Environment System on Bellona, Solomon Islands

scientific article published in 2008

Adaptation strategies and climate vulnerability in the Sudano-Sahelian region of West Africa

Adaptation to climate change in developing countries

scientific article

Adapting Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to Local Contexts in REDD+: Lessons from Three Experiments in Vietnam

scholarly article by Thuy Pham et al published 15 July 2015 in Forests

An Assessment of Trends in the Extent of Swidden in Southeast Asia

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An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

scientific article

Challenging the Woodfuel Crisis in West African Woodlands

scientific article published in 2011

Changes in shifting cultivation systems on small Pacific islands

Climate variability and environmental stress in the Sudan-Sahel zone of West Africa

scientific article

Continuity and change: Spatiotemporal land use dynamics on Bellona Island, Solomon Islands

Development of allometric models for above and belowground biomass in swidden cultivation fallows of Northern Laos

scientific article published in 2015

Diversification and adaptation strategies to climate variability: A farm typology for the Sahel

Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions

scientific article published in 2023

Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

scholarly article by Abdul Malik et al published 31 August 2015 in Forests

Ecosystem Service Provision by Secondary Forests in Shifting Cultivation Areas Remains Poorly Understood

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2021

Ecosystem services and biodiversity in developing countries

scholarly article by Ole Mertz et al published 20 July 2007 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Extinction or adaptation? Three decades of change in shifting cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia

article by T. S. Hansen & Ole Mertz published 2006 in Land Degradation and Development

Farmers' perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation strategies in rural Sahel

scientific article

Food consumption in rural Burkina Faso

scholarly article by Anne Mette Lykke et al published March 2002 in Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

scientific article

Improved land tenure not the driver of economic development in a Vietnamese community

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Improved sampling methods document decline in soil organic carbon stocks and concentrations of permanganate oxidizable carbon after transition from swidden to oil palm cultivation

Improving how meteorological information is used by pastoralists through adequate communication tools

Is There a Continuing Rationale for Swidden Cultivation in the 21st Century?

scientific article published in 2013

Land System Science: between global challenges and local realities

scientific article

Land system change and food security: towards multi-scale land system solutions

scientific article published on October 2013

Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

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Land use decisions in smallholder rural communities in developing countries

Linking yields of upland rice in shifting cultivation to fallow length and soil properties

Local land use strategies in a globalizing world: Subsistence farming, cash crops and income diversification

Local land use strategies in a globalizing world—managing social and environmental dynamics

Mangrove exploitation effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Abdul Malik et al published 15 October 2015 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

scientific article published in 2022

New Publisher of Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

Pepper in a time of crisis: Smallholder buffering strategies in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia

scholarly article by Reed L. Wadley & Ole Mertz published September 2005 in Agricultural Systems

Propensity of farmers to conserve forest within REDD+ projects in areas affected by armed-conflict

Prospects for agroforestry in REDD+ landscapes in Africa

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Rainfall variability and household coping strategies in northern Tanzania: a motivation for district-level strategies

scholarly article by Sara L. M. Trærup & Ole Mertz published 12 October 2010 in Regional Environmental Change

Recognizing Contemporary Roles of Swidden Agriculture in Transforming Landscapes of Southeast Asia

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Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change

Researching Pacific island livelihoods: mobility, natural resource management and nissology

scientific article published on January 2010

Shifting cultivation stability and change: Contrasting pathways of land use and livelihood change in Laos

article by Thoumthone Vongvisouk et al published January 2014 in Applied Geography

Small island sustainability in the Pacific: Introduction to the special issue

article published in 2010

Soil erosion from shifting cultivation and other smallholder land use in Sarawak, Malaysia

Special issue dedicated to Professor Anette Reenberg

Sustainable land use in Tikopia: Food production and consumption in an isolated agricultural system

Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences

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Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines

scientific article

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

scientific article published in 2022

The Last Swiddens of Sarawak, Malaysia

scientific article published in 2012

The Rationality of Shifting Cultivation Systems: Labor Productivity Revisited

scientific article published in 2006

The carbon sequestration potential of tree crop plantations

scholarly article by Rico Kongsager et al published 12 September 2012 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

The forgotten D: challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under REDD+

The history of environmental change and adaptation in eastern Saloum–Senegal—Driving forces and perceptions

scientific article

The relationship between length of fallow and crop yields in shifting cultivation: a rethinking

Transformation of shifting cultivation: Extent, driving forces and impacts on livelihoods in Tanzania

scholarly article by Charles Joseph Kilawe et al published May 2018 in Applied Geography

Trends in shifting cultivation and the REDD mechanism

Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

Uncertainty in establishing forest reference levels and predicting future forest-based carbon stocks for REDD+

Unravelling the link between global rubber price and tropical deforestation in Cambodia

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Vietnam's forest transition in retrospect: demonstrating weaknesses in business-as-usual scenarios for REDD.

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Weather and resource information as tools for dealing with farmer–pastoralist conflicts in the Sahel

Weather, Climate, and Resource Information Should Meet the Needs of Sahelian Pastoralists

Who Counts? Demography of Swidden Cultivators in Southeast Asia

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“Slash and Burn” and “Shifting” Cultivation Systems in Forest Agriculture Frontiers from the Brazilian Amazon

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