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The built environment plays a pivotal role in lowering residents' exposure to climate change driven risks.
COVID-19 restrictions led to calls to open up golf courses to the public. But these are such precious refuges for native flora and fauna that access will have to be carefully managed.
South Africa's that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
How climate change and other human actions have combined to create conditions for explosive wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state.
Land acquisition remains a major challenge for Indonesia's increasing renewable energy installations.
The UK's official climate advisor recommends up to 50,000 hectares of new woodland each year by 2050.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. It wasn't until Europeans arrived that the landscape experienced major human impacts.
Land-use planning should give more weight to the increasing risks of natural hazards like bushfires as the first step in reducing the impacts.
Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.
Hundreds of archaeologists provided on-the-ground data from across the globe, providing a new view of the long and varied history of people transforming Earth's environment.
Rezoning to mixed-use residential development drove small manufacturers and creative producers out of the inner city. The result is less diversity of land uses, jobs and services where we most want it.
The cost of land and, in turn, housing forces people to buy into the rules of market capitalism, making it very hard to 'downshift' from consumer lifestyles. But what if we rethink public housing?
The 'tractors and chemicals' recipe for farming has let human populations boom, but left us with degraded soils.
The world has no hope of reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement without seriously reducing emissions from agriculture, forestry and land clearing.
Forget eyecatching headlines about planting millions of new trees – natural mature forests are far better at storing carbon.
The abandonment of crops and pastures allows the natural regeneration of bushes and forests and the recolonization of fauna.
A new petition is urging state and federal governments to rein in Australia's rampant land clearing, which worsens the risk of bushfires and threatens to undo the work of the Emissions Reduction Fund.
Just one out of a possible 775 development approvals was refused on the basis that it would harm the southern black-throated finch, despite this endangered species being protected by federal law.
Top contributors
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Researcher, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Euan Ritchie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct professor, University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Built Environment, UNSW
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle
