An Exploration of Scenarios to Support Sustainable Land Management Using Integrated Environmental Socio-economic Models

Fleskens, Luuk; Nainggolan, Doan; Stringer, Lindsay C.

doi:10.1007/s00267-013-0202-x

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“…Such products are a testimony to the possibility of collecting and presenting information free of scale constraints, albeit also underlining the challenges in maintaining fine scale accuracy. Similarly, there is a recent emergence of several toolkits aiming at facilitating managing and policy making at jurisdictional or landscape scale, through the spatially-explicit representation of multidisciplinary data [26][27][28][29][30]31 ]. Typically, toolkits to support decision making differ in their specific data requirements with respect to integrated monitoring over time.…”

Section: Old Challenges and New Prospects For Integrated Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards integrated monitoring of REDD+

Sassi

Joseph

Bos

et al. 2015

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Section: Old Challenges and New Prospects For Integrated Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards integrated monitoring of REDD+

Sassi

Joseph

Bos

et al. 2015

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…Globally, people are painfully beginning to realize that we are endowed with scarce environmental resources, which are sensitive to actions that we pursue (Fleskens, Nainggolan, and Stringer, 2014 (Clugston and Calder, 1999). As of May 2012, there were 440 member universities worldwide (Wolfgramm, Flynn-Coleman, and Conroy, 2015) with the numbers moving up every passing…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benchmarking presidents’ compensations in institutions of higher education relative to sustainability and other institutional practices

Pati

Lee

2016

Benchmarking: An International Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic effects of academic institutional factors including environmental, social, and economic sustainability indices on the compensation of the president of an institution of higher education (IHE). The objective is to build relationships among variables to benchmark compensation measures for IHE presidents across US universities to proliferate sustainability initiatives. Some of the variables of the study were environmental sustainability, social sustainability, cost efficiency as a measure of economic sustainability, tenure, institutional control of the university such as public or private fundraising reputation, endowment and professor’s salary. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 236 universities have been included in the study. The data for various dependent variables were studied to see the relationship between the independent and select dependent variables. The OLS regression approach was used to ascertain the relationships between the president’s salary, and a selected set of independent variables that includes the measures of sustainability. Findings – The key findings of this study is that variables such as environmental sustainability, tenure, classification, endowment, and professor salary were significantly and positively associated with the IHE president’s salary. Research limitations/implications – The current study is limited to the IHEs within the USA. Thus, the study cannot be generalized or extrapolated to other countries or contexts or cultures. Practical implications – The results of the study show that the trustees rarely use proliferation of sustainability as a criterion to compensate IHE presidents. The study concludes with the plea to trustees to benchmark sustainability across IHEs in evaluating and compensating IHE presidents. Originality/value – This paper extends the compensation study of IHE presidents to include environment, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. These variables are important in this age where IHEs have been challenged to do more to make our planet sustainable.

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“…Land degradation persists as one of the most pressing environmental concerns with important consequences for sustainability at various levels through complex links with food production, poverty and climate change (Fleskens et al ., , Stringer et al ., ). Soil erosion by water is recognized as an important worldwide driver of land degradation with consequences for the maintenance of soil fertility, sustainable dryland crop yields (Lal, ; Geissen et al ., ; Kirkby et al ., ; Muzinguzi et al ., Musinguzi et al ., ), water availability (Araya et al ., ), affecting food production, fuelwood, income and housing (Tesfaye et al ., ).…”

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confidence: 99%