[HTML][HTML] Farmer land-use decision-making from an instrumental and relational perspective

M Githinji, M Van Noordwijk, C Muthuri… - Current Opinion in …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Farmer decisions affect landscape's economy, ecology and life of its
inhabitants.•Farmer decisions may lead to harmful outcomes at individual or collectives' …

Practical solutions for making models indispensable in conservation decision‐making

PFE Addison, L Rumpff, SS Bau… - Diversity and …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Decision‐making for conservation management often involves evaluating risks in the
face of environmental uncertainty. Models support decision‐making by (1) synthesizing …

[HTML][HTML] Field-scale modeling of tree–crop interactions: Challenges and development needs

E Luedeling, PJ Smethurst, F Baudron, J Bayala… - Agricultural …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Agroforestry has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of its potential to
reduce poverty, improve food security, reduce land degradation and mitigate climate …

Science for action at the local landscape scale

P Opdam, JI Nassauer, Z Wang, C Albert, G Bentrup… - Landscape …, 2013‏ - Springer
For landscape ecology to produce knowledge relevant to society, it must include
considerations of human culture and behavior, extending beyond the natural sciences to …

[HTML][HTML] Salience, credibility and legitimacy in a rapidly shifting world of knowledge and action

DW Cash, PG Belloy - Sustainability, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
We are in a rapidly changing world where new dynamics are stressing the knowledge-action
landscape: a greater understanding that cross-scale interactions are critical; increasing …

A framework for characterising and evaluating the effectiveness of environmental modelling

SH Hamilton, B Fu, JHA Guillaume, J Badham… - … modelling & software, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Environmental modelling is transitioning from the traditional paradigm that focuses on the
model and its quantitative performance to a more holistic paradigm that recognises …

[HTML][HTML] Farmer Options and Risks in Complex Ecological-Social systems: The FORCES game designed for agroforestry management of upper watersheds

RR Sari, L Tanika, EN Speelman, DD Saputra… - Agricultural …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
CONTEXT Serious games have gained popularity as an innovative participatory approach to
explore the complexity of social-ecological systems, managing the trade-offs between …

[HTML][HTML] Boundary work: Knowledge co-production for negotiating payment for watershed services in Indonesia

B Leimona, B Lusiana, M van Noordwijk… - Ecosystem …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Boundary work has been proven effective in bridging research communities and the gap
between action and policy-making in sustainable development. Applying this boundary-work …

A checklist for model credibility, salience, and legitimacy to improve information transfer in environmental policy assessments

GAK van Voorn, RW Verburg, EM Kunseler… - … Modelling & Software, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Modelers involved in environmental policy assessments are commonly confronted with the
lack of uptake of model output by policy actors. Actors have different expectations of models …

Land sparing or sharing? Exploring livestock fodder options in combination with land use zoning and consequences for livelihoods and net carbon stocks using the …

B Lusiana, M van Noordwijk, G Cadisch - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Livestock as an integral part of farming systems can increase resource use efficiency and
land use intensity of agricultural systems, but can also be a driver of forest conversion and …