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Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
Trade agreements could help to protect human rights, critical ecosystems, and the climate—but only if sustainability becomes a …
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Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they are increasingly under threat from …
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Conservation Telecouplings
Local threats to biodiversity are increasingly caused by distal drivers. Likewise, conservation responses are increasingly shaped by …
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Mapping Land System Archetypes to Understand Drivers of Ecosystem Service Risks
Land system archetypes are unique patterns of land-use intensity within prevailing environmental and socio-economic conditions that …
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Rewilding complex ecosystems
The practice of rewilding has been both promoted and criticized in recent years. Benefits include flexibility to react to environmental …
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Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts
Sustainable intensification of agricultural production is expected to be an important pathway for achieving future food security while …
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A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses
Land cover maps increasingly underlie research into socioeconomic and environmental patterns and processes, including global change. It …
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From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals
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Agriculture is a key threat to biodiversity; however, its relationship with biodiversity patterns is understudied. Here, we evaluate …
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Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas
A growing human population and shifting consumption patterns increase the pressure on agricultural production systems. Reservoir-based …
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Middle-range theories of land system change
Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid …
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