*Support for this paper was provided by Cooperative Agreement 43-3AEM-3-80137 between USDA and the University of Illinois. It does not represent the official views of either institution. This draft has benefitted from discussions with Ken Chomitz, Peter Feather, Charles Hallahan, Ralph Heimlich, Laurian Unnevehr, and participants in seminars at IFPRI, the World Bank, Resources for the Future, U...

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3.1 LAND TENURE SECURITY AND LEGALIZATION............................................................... 8 3.1.1 Land Tenure Security and Legalization: Lessons Learned...........................13 3.2 IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE DELIVERY.............................................. 15 3.2.1 Infrastructure and Building Standards ............................................................

Land-cover and climate change are both expected to alter species distributions and contribute to future biodiversity loss. However, the combined effects of land-cover and climate change on assemblages, especially at the landscape scale, remain understudied. Lowland tropical amphibians may be particularly susceptible to changes in land cover and climate warming because many species have narrow t...

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State-owned construction land is the dominant legal land source for construction in China and its supply influences urban expansion, house prices, and economic development, among other factors. Surprisingly, limited attention has been directly devoted to the spatiotemporal variation in land supply or the driving factors. This paper applied a centroid model and hotspot analysis, and created a ne...