Shifting agriculture systems in the Colombian Amazon, locally known as chagras, have been
traditionally managed by indigenous peoples following their traditional ecological …

Context Many landscapes are constrained into pathways featuring deforestation, loss of
biodiversity, and rising mega-disturbances due to legacies and feedbacks preserved in …

Economic transitions have a wide variety of impacts on rural forest-located communities.
Uncertain employment prospects and a lack of local higher education institutions may …

Rural migration is an integral component of land systems, altering land management both at
the origin and destination of migration in regions of Europe and North America. We examine …

Low-density residential development in rural areas is an important land use trend in many
parts of the world, and has disproportionate ecological impacts due to its large footprint …

Many researchers have documented a substantial shift in rural economies and land uses in
the western United States, from agriculture and commodity production toward service-based …

This paper critically examines the temporal and spatial dynamics of adaptation in climate
change science and explores how dynamic notions of 'place'elucidate novel ways of …

Rural communities face challenges and opportunities through changing relationships to
natural resources that they depend on socially and culturally. Structural shifts in community …

Rural towns across the US have undergone economic and social restructuring. We focus on
two former timber towns adjacent to public lands that are transitioning to new production …

New England is a predominately forested landscape in which 80% of the forest is privately
owned and patterns of land use are the result of diverse landowners acting individually in …