Research projects

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Below are the research projects which have been granted endorsement by the Scientific Steering Committee of GLP:

Title	Start	End	PI
Amazonian Deforestation and the Structure of Households Phase 3	-	-	Emilio F. Moran
Assessing Biodiversity Governance and Management Approaches – The Case of Biosphere Reserves (GoBi)	2004	2009	Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Climate, Urban Land Use, and Excess Mortality Study (CULE)	2009	2012	Brian Stone
Collapse and Restoration of Ecosystem Networks with Human Activity	2007	2012	Norio Yamamura
Complexity, Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale (CAVES)	2005	2008	Scott Moss
Decision-making and the poverty-environment nexus: analyzing the contextuality of sustainable development at meso-level	2006	2009	Peter Messerli
Developing Capacities in Carbon Stock Measurement Across Ecologies and Land Use Systems in West Africa	2008	2009	Cheikh Mbow
Driving forces and impacts of land use transformation in the Lake Balaton catchment area (Hungary)	2006	2009	Peter Szilassi
Dryland Development Paradigm (DDP) application for the most vulnerable to climate and land use change of pastoral systems in the Southern Khangai Mountains of Mongolia (DDPPaS)	2009	2010	Chuluun Togtohyn
Dynamics of Reforestation in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: Modeling Land-Use Decision Making and Policy Impacts	2009	2010	Tom P. Evans
Ecosystem Services Management in Asia (ECOSMAG)	2008	2010	Ademola Braimoh
Ecosystem-level response to large scale natural disturbance in Southern Yucatán: Evaluating forest resilience in protected areas	2008	2011	Laura C. Schneider
Environmental impact of agricultural expansion in southwestern Amazonia	2006	2010	Carlos Clemente Cerri
Environmental Valuation Project	2003	2009	Tatsuki Sekino
Expansion of rubber and its implications for water and carbon dynamics in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia	2008	2012	Jefferson Fox
Fire-Land-Atmosphere Modeling and Evaluation for Southeast Asia (FLAMES)	-	-	Darla K. Munroe
Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach (DiverSus)	-	-	Sandra Diaz
History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE)	-	-	Kees Klein Goldewijk
Human activities in Northeastern Asia and their impact on the biological productivity in North Pacific Ocean (Amur-Okhotsk Project)	2002	2009	Takayuki Shiraiwa
Land Use Change in Amazonia: Institutional Analysis and Modelling at multiple temporal and spatial scales	2009	2013	Gilberto Câmara
Land use effects on habitat suitability and metapopulation dynamics of the European bison	2008	2010	Tobias Kuemmerle
Mangrove forests - global distribution and dynamics 1990-2005	-	-	Chandra P. Giri
Model Ecosystem Framework (MEF) Project	-	-	Richard Aspinall
Mongolian Pastoral Environments – Landscape and Livelihood Dimensions	-	-	Troy Sternberg
North American Land Change: Decision Making in Coupled Human-Environment Systems	2005	2009	Steven M. Manson
Patterns, dynamics and implications of the global human use of terrestrial ecosystems	-	-	Helmut Haberl
Policy Framework for Adaptation Strategies of the Mongolian Rangelands to Climate Change at Multiple Scales (PARCC)	2007	2008	Chuluun Togtohyn
Post-socialist land-use and land-cover change in the Carpathians	2004	2010	Patrick Hostert
Range Enclosure on the Tibetan Plateau of China: Impacts on Pastoral Livelihoods, Marketing, Livestock Productivity and Rangeland Biodiversity (RETPEC)	2007	2011	Grant Davidson
Rationalising Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Ecosystems (RUBICODE)	2006	2009	Paula Harrison
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation through Alternative Landuses in Rainforests of the Tropics (REDD-ALERT)	2009	2012	Robin Matthews
Refining plant functional classifications for earth system modelling	2007	2008	Sandra Lavorel
Remote sensing of the forest transition and its ecosystem impacts in mountain environments (FoMo)	2009	2013	Eric Lambin
Socioecological gradients and land-use fragmentation: a cross-site comparative analysis	-	-	Christopher Boone
Spatial Land-Use Change and Ecological Effects (SLUCE): Interactions of Exurban Land Management and Carbon Dynamics	2008	2012	Dan Brown
Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental, Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions (SENSOR)	2004	2008	Katharina Helming
Sustainability of Rainfed Agriculture in India: Evaluation of Watershed Development Projects in Rainfed Agro-ecological regions in Peninsular India	2005	2010	Kaushalya Ramachandran
Sustainable Aquaculture Project	2005	2008	Kang-tsung (Karl) Chang
Sustainable resource use or imminent collapse? Climate, livelihoods and production in the Southwest Pacific (CLIP)	2006	2007	Ole Mertz
The AfriPop Project	2009	-	Andy Tatem
The Boston-Area Climate Experiment	2006	2011	Jeffrey Dukes
The impact of climate change on Alpine plant composition, distribution and edaphic system on the Rwenzori, Uganda	2009	2010	Bob Nakileza
The impact of economic globalization on human demography, land use and natural systems in Latin America and the Caribbean	-	-	T. Mitchell Aide
The Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) Project - Landscape Vulnerability-Resilience in the SYPR	1987	-	Billie L. Turner II
Tools for management and Sustainable Use of Natural vegetation in West Africa (SUN)	2007	2010	Anne Mette Lykke
Wild Fire and Carbon Management in Peat Forest in Indonesia	2008	2013	Mitsuru Osaki
3Worlds: a multiscale simulation platform for ecology and environmental sciences	2008	2011	Jacques Gignoux

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