Conservation: The great US land grab

Why We Need the Concept of Land-grab-induced Displacement

This paper challenges the traditional threefold classification of forced migration, and proposes a new concept: land-grab-induced displacement. The concept sheds light on issues that are shrouded by the conventional typology. Displacement, frequently treated as the ‘collateral damage’ of war and climate change, or an unfortunate sacrifice necessitated by ‘development’, may often be better under...

Towards a Broader View of the Politics of Global Land Grab: Rethinking Land Issues, Reframing Resistance

The phrase 'global land grab' has become a catch-all framework to describe and analyze the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions related to the production and sale of food and biofuels. Initially deployed and popularised by activist groups opposed to such transactions from an environmental and agrarian justice perspectives, the significance of the phrase has quickly ...

Genetic characterization of great sturgeon brood stocks- recommendations for the conservation management and aquaculture

The great sturgeon, Huso huso, is one of the most important cultured sturgeon species in Iran, which effective management of aquaculture production of this species requires knowledge of broodstock structure, mating patterns, and genetic diversity of broodstock. The aim of the present study was the application of microsatellite DNA analysis for genetic diversity assessment in the first generatio...

Land Mammals and the Great American Interchange

The Growing Role of Land Trusts and Private Land Conservation