A. Cristina de la Vega-Leinert

University of Greifswald · Institute for Geography and Geology

The Santa Cruz lowlands, east Bolivia, are one of South America’s most dynamic agricultural frontiers. In the Chiquitania, bordering Brazil, San Ignacio de Velasco was in 2017 ranked first nationally in terms of deforestation. There, two deforestation fronts meet with mechanized agriculture expanding from the West and South and cattle ranching from...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and to involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications with regard to cl...

Oil palm (Elais guineensis Jacq.), a high-yielding oil-seed crop, is associated with multiple socio-environmental impacts. The Mexican oil palm sector is emerging and stands out for its dynamism. This paper presents hitherto unpublished maps to facilitate an independent, transparent and publicly accessible monitoring of the progression of this crop...

Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its miti-gation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications regarding climate ch...

Actualización de datos hasta febrero de 2022 En febrero de 2022 fue concluida la actualización del muestreo de cultivos de palma de aceite a nivel nacional. Este trabajo incorpora: 1. La detección y vectorización de nuevas áreas ocupadas por cultivos de palma de aceite. 2. La redefinición de polígonos de palma muestreados en 2019 que ampliaron su...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications regarding climate ch...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider and involve them. Therefore, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications regarding climate change or b...

This data set constitutes the first version of our cartography of areas under oil palm cultivation at national level in Mexico. A total of 62,057 hectares under oil palm cultivation were identified and mapped. This area represents 57.1% of the planted areas, or 72.6% of the harvested areas in 2019, according to official sources. This study produces...

In this study, we present an overview of the current situation of oil palm in Mexico based on: - official data on the oil palm sector at international and national levels to contextualize oil palm cultivation and its economic importance, - the most recent publicly available mapping of oil palm fields at national level an introduction to the public...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies worldwide, many of which target or impact local communities. Although research, international development, and policy implementation (and, thus, success in fighting both threats) require thoughtful consideration and communication of the underlying concepts, field work encounters a cascade of tan...

Abtract Young people steer their life trajectories against the backdrop of profound transformations of rurality. They are considered protagonists in the present and future of rural areas; however, their experiences and perspectives on life in, and away from, the countryside have been scarcely acknowledged in academia. Considering conceptual thought...

En los capítulos de esta obra se exploran los vínculos del modelo económico neoliberal con la transformación socioambiental, las racionalidades y las prácticas políticas de la gobernanza neoliberal en torno a asuntos ambientales, así como los conflictos y luchas sociales que surgen alrededor de los recursos naturales y la gobernanza ambiental. Los...

Tropical dry forests and savannas harbour unique biodiversity and provide critical ES, yet they are under severe pressure globally. We need to improve our understanding of how and when this pressure provokes tipping points in biodiversity and the associated social-ecological systems. We propose an approach to investigate how drivers leading to natu...

Investigación realizada por encargo del Instituto de Geografía y Geología de la Universidad de Greifswald. Con el apoyo financiero de Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)/ German Research Foundation bajo el Proyecto número VE 659/2-1 Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza, Santa Cruz, Bolivia: http://www.fan-bo.org/

“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development on 13th February 2019, available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00139157.2019.1564214”

Si vivimos en una ciudad, tenemos a diario en nuestro plato alimentos que provienen del mundo entero. Se han dado transformaciones recientes en el consumo alimentario urbano, en su contexto sociocultural y político, así como en sus consecuencias en la salud pública, el ambiente y las relaciones de campo (espacio proveedor de recursos naturales para...

Managed Realignment (MR), which involves the removal of coastal defences or their relocation further inland, is a desirable option for demographically and economically marginal rural areas, from scientific, political and managerial perspectives. In Europe, MR is reshaping coastal landscapes, and, though not directly endangering lives, is affecting...

Este libro es la segunda obra de la Red de Estudios sobre Sociedad y Medio Ambiente (RESMA), la cual congrega a más de una docena de investigadores pertenecientes a diferentes instituciones académicas del país y del extranjero. En los once textos que la componen, los trece autores asentimos la orientación crítica que nos sugiere la ecología polític...

Managed Realignment (MR), which involves the removal of coastal defences or their relocation further inland, is a desirable option for demographically and economically marginal rural areas, from scientific, political and managerial perspectives. In Europe, MR is reshaping coastal landscapes, and, though not directly endangering lives, is affecting...

The Velasco Province, which lies at the transition between the Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal and Chaco regions, is rapidly transforming since the 1980s as it is located between two rapidly advancing agricultural frontiers. To the West and South, forest is being cleared for soya monoculture; to the East, at the Brazilian border, pasture is replacing for...

Production of low-input, shaded coffee in the Los Tuxtlas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (LTBR), Veracruz, Mexico, an economically marginalized but ecologically rich region, was strongly affected by the collapse in international prices and the reconfiguration of the Mexican coffee sector in the 1990s. This place-based study used qualitative methods to in...

Production of low-input, shaded coffee in the Los Tuxtlas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (LTBR), Veracruz, Mexico, an economically marginalized but ecologically rich region, was strongly affected by the collapse in international prices and the reconfiguration of the Mexican coffee sector in the 1990s. This place-based study used qualitative methods to in...

In view of the Aichi international policy targets to expand areas under conservation, we analyze to what extent conservation has become an inherent element of extraction. We scrutinize the Land Sparing versus Land Sharing debate by explicitly incorporating environmental justice issues of access to land an d natural resources. We contend that domina...

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“Landscape” is defined here as comprising both the landforms of a region in the aggregate and the humans who inhabit the region. Furthermore, it embodies a relationship between nature and culture. These concepts are also components of the German term Heimat, whose denotation is “homeland” or “where I come from”. In German, in some contexts, Heimat...

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR), a protected area model, conceptually reconciles conservation and multiple land use, based on a zonation system embedded within an integrated management approach. The World Network comprises currently 621 BRs located in 117 countries, which in principle are managed within this overall framework. Effectively, within a...

Using the example of the El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve (Mexico) and drawing on the concepts of acceptance and governance, different attitudes regarding protected areas are analysed. Based on 38 in-depth interviews carried out in 2010 with actors involved in biosphere reserve management and decision-making, the ramifications of identified discrepanc...

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR), a protected area model, conceptually reconciles conservation and multiple land use, based on a zonation system embedded within an integrated management approach. The World Network comprises currently 621 BRs located in 117 countries, which in principle are managed within this overall framework. Effectively, within...

A coarse clastic barrier and backing lagoon at Bay of Carness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom, are examined. Mapping and survey of the landforms and sediments associated with the barrier and lagoon, followed by stratigraphical investigation and laboratory analyses including pollen analysis, plant macrofossil analysis, diatom analysis and radiocar...

Biodiversity management has traditionally followed two contradictory approaches. One champions ecosystem protection through rigorous law enforcement and exclusion of humans. The other promotes community-based sustainable use of natural resources. Participatory conservation, a major paradigm shift, nowadays strongly guides the concept of UNESCO Bios...

This paper makes the case for advancing sustainability science partnerships (SSPs) both within universities and through innovative means of integrating universities with external public-private and civil sectors. It links the basic principles of sustainable development with an emerging science of cooperative learning that connects researchers to a...

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. However, much of the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the knowledge created by researchers...

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. However, much of the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the knowledge created by researchers...

A stakeholder dialogue was embedded in the ATEAM project to facilitate the development and dissemination of its European-wide vulnerability assessment of global change impacts. Participating stakeholders were primarily ecosystem managers and policy advisers interested in potential impacts on ‘Agriculture’, ‘Forestry’, ‘Water’, ‘Carbon storage’, ‘Bi...

Large parts of the coasts of Great Britain (including England, Wales, and Scotland) already experience a number of problems, including sediment starvation and erosion, loss/degradation of coastal ecosystems, and significant exposure to coastal flooding. Sea-level rise and other potential climate change will exacerbate all of these issues. Coastal m...

This paper introduces the collection of papers on impacts of sea-level rise on a number of European countries, and presents some overarching conclusions. URL of the original publication: http://www.jcronline.org/doi/abs/10.2112/07A-0002.1?code=cerf-site

Mexico is increasingly dependent on imports to satisfy national basic food needs. The volatility of international markets, high concentration of the maize sector, speculation and recent use of maize for biofuels push prices up. The Mexican State, who once strongly intervened to control food prices, particularly of the tortilla, has since the 1980s...

Large parts of the coasts of Great Britain (including England, Wales, and Scotland) already experience a number of problems, including sediment starvation and erosion, loss/degradation of coastal ecosystems, and significant exposure to coastal flooding. Sea-level rise and other potential climate change will exacerbate all of these issues. Coastal m...

This paper introduces the collection of papers on impacts of sea-level rise on a number of European countries, and presents some overarching conclusions.

A stakeholder dialogue aimed to facilitate the development and dissemination of the ATEAM European vulnerability assessment of global change impacts. This participative experiment constitutes a milestone in integrated ecological modelling. Participating ecosystem managers, sectoral representatives and policy advisers significantly influenced the re...

The first detailed investigation of a deep, coastal, sedimentary basin in Orkney reveals a complex Holocene history of back-barrier morphodynamics. At Scapa Bay, the sea flooded a freshwater marsh after ca. 9400 yr BP at ca. −5.4 m OD. Before ca. 7800 BP, abundant sediment from nearby cliffs was mobilised inland into a series of gravel barriers acr...

Science-based stakeholder dialogues are structured communication processes linking scientists with societal actors, such as representatives of companies, NGOs, governments, and the wider public. Stakeholders possess knowledge needed by scientists to better comprehend, represent and analyse global change problems as well as decision-makers’, manager...

Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and scenarios of climate and land-use change to conduct a Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in climate and land use typically resulted in large change...

Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and scenarios of climate and land-use change to conduct a Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in climate and land use typically resulted in large change...

In the following we describe and discuss the methods and concepts used in the European vulnerability assessment. We describe the stakeholder dialogue in general, and then turn to the multiple input scenarios (socio-economic storylines and emission scenarios, climate scenarios and land use scenarios). After that we introduce the various ecosystem mo...

Climate-change vulnerability assessment has become a frequently employed tool, with the purpose of informing policy-makers attempting to adapt to global change conditions. However, we suggest that there are three reasons to suspect that vulnerability assessment often promises more certainty, and more useful results, than it can deliver. First, the...

ATEAM's primary objective was to assess the vulnerability of human sectors relying on ecosystem services with respect to global change. We consider vulnerability to be a function of potential impacts and adaptive capacity to global change. Multiple, internally consistent scenarios of potential impacts and vulnerabilities of the sectors agriculture,...

The foregoing conclusions are broadly consistent with those expressed in the IPCC Special Report on Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) and the Second Assessment Report (1996). This survey incorporates much more information than previously reported, corroborating previous conclusions (with which it is broadly consistent) but extending knowled...

La vulnérabilité du Royaume Uni face aux impacts de l'élévation accélérée du niveau de la mer est importante mais varie régionalement et localement en fonction de la susceptibilité naturelle et de l'occupation et utilisation des espaces côtiers. Depuis les années 1990, de nombreuses études d'impacts régionales et sectorielles ont été produites, bie...

A detailed multidisciplinary investigation of intertidal freshwater sediments exposed in the north of the Bay of Skaill, Mainland Orkney, Scotland, have revealed a complex sedimentary sequence. This provided evidence for dynamic coastal environmental changes in the area since the mid-Holocene. Freshwater ponds developed on glacial sediments ca. 655...

Thesis (Ph. D.) -Coventry University, 1998. Available electronically from Conventry University Open Collections https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/flandrian-coastal-environmental-changes-evidence-from-three-sites