""Transforming the Prairies" proposes a new understanding of Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), complicating common views of the agency as a model of effective government environmental management. Between 1935 and 2009, the PFRA promoted agricultural rehabilitation in...

Climate change affects the timing of phenological events, such as the start, end, and length of the growing season of vegetation. A better understanding of how the phenology responded to climatic determinants is important in order to better anticipate future climate-ecosystem interactions. We...

Through a study of the settlement of the Canadian Prairies, I examine if differences in violence across regions reflect the historical ability of the state to centralize authority and monopolize violence. I compare settlements that in the late 1880s were located near Mountie-created forts with...

Through a study of the settlement of the Canadian Prairies, I examine if differences in violence across regions reflect the historical ability of the state to centralize authority and monopolize violence. I compare settlements that in the late 1880s were located near Mountie-created forts with...

In der vorliegenden Stellungnahme werden die GAP-Beschlüsse zum Greening der Direktzahlungen in Bezug auf die nationalen Gestaltungsspielräume für die drei Greening-Komponenten Anbaudiversifizierung, Erhaltung von Dauergrünland und ökologische Vorrangflächen (ÖVF)2 bewertet und...

This paper uses data from a discrete choice experiment to investigate the factors affecting participation in agri-environmental schemes in Eiderstedt and Südtondern, two grassland regions in Schleswig-Holstein. As expected, higher payment rates increase farmers' willingness to sign a...

Outcome-oriented agri-environment schemes need measurable indicators. This thesis refines a method for selecting indicator species identifying typical regional grassland communities, and arable land with high weed species diversity. Also, the method is exemplarily applied to select indicator...

"Brazil has become one of today's major producers and net exporters of grains. This was achieved by converting barren land into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's...

"Sarah Carter's "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the "spade-work" of...

"Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent...

Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.

Der Versuch der kenianischen Regierung, die Nomaden anzusiedeln, um auf diese Weise sowohl die Nahrungsmittelproduktion zu erhöhen als auch die nationale Einigung voranzutreiben, hat zur Bevölkerungskonzentration sowie zur Überweidung in den betreffenden Gebieten geführt und damit der...