Rangeland Degradation, Poverty, and Conflict: How Can Rangeland Scientists Contribute to Effective Responses and Solutions?

Rangeland degradation and restoration management in China

Rangelands of China have for centuries provided forage for livestock but now their role in water, soil, and biodiversity conservation is being recognised by Governments and people. However, much of the rangelands has recently degraded anddesertification is nowawidespread problem.The cause of the degradation is over-grazing andover-cultivation. Climate change is exacerbating theproblem.TheChines...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Whither the Rangeland?: Protection and Conversion in California's Rangeland Ecosystems

Land use change in rangeland ecosystems is pervasive throughout the western United States with widespread ecological, social and economic implications. In California, rangeland habitats have high biodiversity value, provide significant habitat connectivity and form the foundation for a number of ecosystem services. To comprehensively assess the conservation status of these habitats, we analyzed...

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

How can land tenure reform contribute to poverty reduction

„The vision of a prosperous agriculturally based market economy in which increasingly diversified and commercially oriented small farmers with secure and exchangeable land rights, able not only to feed but also to remunerate themselves and their families while supplying [...] growing cities, generating local employment and national revenue, is powerful, attractive, motivating and valid. The que...