[HTML][HTML] Threats to sustainable development posed by land and water grabbing

J Dell'Angelo, P D'Odorico, MC Rulli - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•The expansion of transnational land acquisitions raises sustainability
concerns.•Land and water grabbing represent a critical challenge to sustainable …

A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies

S Lindersson, L Brandimarte, J Mård… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of planetary‐scale geospatial datasets that can support the study of water‐
related disasters in the Anthropocene is rapidly growing. We review 124 global and free …

[HTML][HTML] The tragedy of the grabbed commons: Coercion and dispossession in the global land rush

J Dell'Angelo, P D'odorico, MC Rulli, P Marchand - World Development, 2017 - Elsevier
Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions

KF Davis, HI Koo, J Dell'Angelo, P D'Odorico… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they
are increasingly under threat from human activities. Large-scale land acquisitions have …

Large-scale green grabbing for wind and solar photovoltaic development in Brazil

M Klingler, N Ameli, J Rickman, J Schmidt - Nature Sustainability, 2024 - nature.com
Large-scale wind and solar photovoltaic infrastructures are rapidly expanding in Brazil.
These low-carbon technologies can exacerbate land struggles rooted in historical inequities …

Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials

C Oberlack, L Tejada, P Messerli, S Rist… - Global environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) have become a major concern for land use
sustainability at a global scale. A considerable body of case studies has shown that the …

Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?

WW Wolford, B White, I Scoones, R Hall… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale
land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and …

The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush

I Scoones, R Hall, SM Borras Jr, B White… - Journal of Peasant …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The most recent 'land rush'precipitated by the convergent 'crises' of fuel, feed and food in
2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with …

Land rush

SM Borras Jr, JC Franco - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Studies and debates on the issue of land grabs have generated multiple terms and concepts
that are used loosely and interchangeably, such as large-scale land acquisitions, land grab …