Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices

Ever-extending and changing land-use practices including growing urbanization are a key factor of the human impact on the Earth system. How can an understanding of the long-term co-evolutionary interaction between land-use changes and Earth system dynamics inform future regenerative practices?

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Projects Related to Land Use and Regenerative Practices

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What if the way we navigate a city today was shaped by choices made thousands of years ago?  more

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Past urban mobility used to be much more sustainable from today’s point of view. How did it work, how did it feel, and what can we learn? more

Assessments of Kenya’s Urban Ecosystems

(iKOLOGiA ya KALE MiTAANi - Swahili term for Urban-Paleoecology)
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