Biodiversity, ecosystem services, social sustainability and tipping points in African drylands
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The document discusses biodiversity, ecosystem services, social sustainability, and tipping points in African drylands. It aims to develop a conceptual framework linking policy, land use, and livelihoods through pastoralist decision-making. The objectives are to construct and validate models of pastoralist decision-making, evaluate policy scenarios, and disseminate findings to policymakers and communities. The methods include statistical analysis, modeling household decisions, experiments, and agent-based simulations to explore scenarios around payments for ecosystem services and climate change.
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GraphSummit Singapore | Enhancing Changi Airport Group's Passenger Experience...
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Presentation of the OECD Artificial Intelligence Review of Germany
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Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalization
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GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...
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GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024
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- 1. Biodiversity, ecosystem services, social sustainability and tipping points in African drylands Aidan Keane University College London, Institute of Zoology & International Livestock Research Institute 16 August 2011
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- 5. Homewood et al. (2009) “Staying Maasai” Biodiversity, ecosystem services, social sustainability and tipping points in African drylands Background Objectives Framework Methods