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      The effect of tree decline over soil water content largely controls soil respiration dynamics in a Mediterranean woodland 

      Rodríguez, A.; Durán, J.; Curiel Yuste, J.; Valladares, F.; Rey, A. (Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023)
      As drought-induced tree defoliation and mortality (i.e. tree decline) in the Mediterranean is expected to worsen with ongoing climate change, it is of paramount importance to understand how, why, and when tree decline ...
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      The energy requirements of a developed world 

      Arto Olaizola, Ignacio; Capellán Pérez, Iñigo; Lago Aurrecoechea, Rosa María ORCID; Bueno Mendieta, Gorka ORCID; Bermejo Gómez de Segura, Roberto Juan (Elsevier, 2016-08)
      Through history, special attention has been paid to the study of the relationship between the energy use of a country and its level of development. While the interest of this research area is unquestionable, the energy ...
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      The Equivalency Principle for Discounting the Value of Natural Assets: An Application to an Investment Project in the Basque Coast 

      Chiabai, Aline; Galarraga, Ibon; Markandya, Anil; Pascual, Unai (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-10-10)
      Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one ...
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      The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment 

      Jiang, M.; Medlyn, B.E.; Drake, J.E.; Duursma, R.A.; Anderson, I.C.; Barton, C.V.M.; Boer, M.M.; Carrillo, Y.; Castañeda-Gómez, L.; Collins, L.; Crous, K.Y.; De Kauwe, M.G.; Dos Santos, B.M.; Emmerson, K.M.; Facey, S.L.; Gherlenda, A.N.; Gimeno, T.E.; Hasegawa, S.; Johnson, S.N.; Kännaste, A.; Macdonald, C.A.; Mahmud, K.; Moore, B.D.; Nazaries, L.; Neilson, E.H.J.; Nielsen, U.N.; Niinemets, Ü.; Noh, N.J.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Pathare, V.S.; Pendall, E.; Pihlblad, J.; Piñeiro, J.; Powell, J.R.; Power, S.A.; Reich, P.B.; Renchon, A.A.; Riegler, M.; Rinnan, R.; Rymer, P.D.; Salomón, R.L.; Singh, B.K.; Smith, B.; Tjoelker, M.G.; Walker, J.K.M.; Wujeska-Klause, A.; Yang, J.; Zaehle, S.; Ellsworth, D.S. (Springer Nature, 2020)
      Atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment (eCO2) can enhance plant carbon uptake and growth1 5, thereby providing an important negative feedback to climate change by slowing the rate of increase of the atmospheric CO2 ...
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      The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits 

      Sandhu, Harpinder; Müller, Alexander; Sukhdev, Pavan; Merrigan, Kathleen; Tenkouano, Abdou; Markandya, Anil (SAGE, 2019)
      Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages ...
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      The global environmental agenda urgently needs a semantic web of knowledge 

      Balbi, S.; Bagstad, K.J.; Magrach, A.; Sanz, M.J.; Aguilar-Amuchastegui, N.; Giupponi, C.; Villa, F (Environmental Evidence, 2022)
      Progress in key social-ecological challenges of the global environmental agenda (e.g., climate change, biodiversity conservation, Sustainable Development Goals) is hampered by a lack of integration and synthesis of existing ...
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      The Green Paradox and Learning-by-doing in the Renewable Energy Sector 

      Nachtigall, Daniel; Rübbelke, Dirk (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-04-04)
      We investigate the effect of climate policies on fossil fuel use in the presence of a clean alternative technology that exhibits learning-by-doing. In a two-period framework, the costs of clean and regenerative energy in ...
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      The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx) 

      Halbritter, A.H.; De, Boeck, H.J.; Eycott, A.E.; Reinsch, S.; Robinson, D.A.; Vicca, S.; Berauer, B.; Christiansen, C.T.; Estiarte, M.; Grünzweig, J.M.; Gya, R.; Hansen, K.; Jentsch, A.; Lee, H.; Linder, S.; Marshall, J.; Peñuelas, J.; Kappel, Schmidt, I.; Stuart-Haëntjens, E.; Wilfahrt, P.; Vandvik, V.; Abrantes, N.; Almagro, M.; Althuizen, I.H.J.; Barrio, I.C.; Te, Beest, M.; Beier, C.; Beil, I.; Carter, Berry, Z.; Birkemoe, T.; Bjerke, J.W.; Blonder, B.; Blume-Werry, G.; Bohrer, G.; Campos, I.; Cernusak, L.A.; Chojnicki, B.H.; Cosby, B.J.; Dickman, L.T.; Djukic, I.; Filella, I.; Fuchslueger, L.; Gargallo-Garriga, A.; Gillespie, M.A.K.; Goldsmith, G.R.; Gough, C.; Halliday, F.W.; Hegland, S.J.; Hoch, G.; Holub, P.; Jaroszynska, F.; Johnson, D.M.; Jones, S.B.; Kardol, P.; Keizer, J.J.; Klem, K.; Konestabo, H.S.; Kreyling, J.; Kröel-Dulay, G.; Landhäusser, S.M.; Larsen, K.S.; Leblans, N.; Lebron, I.; Lehmann, M.M.; Lembrechts, J.J.; Lenz, A.; Linstädter, A.; Llusià, J.; Macias-Fauria, M.; Malyshev, A.V.; Mänd, P.; Marshall, M.; Matheny, A.M.; McDowell, N.; Meier, I.C.; Meinzer, F.C.; Michaletz, S.T.; Miller, M.L.; Muffler, L.; Oravec, M.; Ostonen, I.; Porcar Castell, Albert; Preece, C.; Prentice, I.C.; Radujkovic, D.; Ravolainen, V.; Ribbons, R.; Ruppert, J.C.; Sack, L.; Sardans, J.; Schindlbacher, A.; Scoffoni, C.; Sigurdsson, B.D.; Smart, S.; Smith, S.W.; Soper, F.; Speed, J.D.M.; Sverdrup-Thygeson, A.; Sydenham, M.A.K.; Taghizadeh-Toosi, A.; Telford, R.J.; Tielbörger, K.; Töpper, J.P.; Urban, O.; Van der, Ploeg, M.; Van Langenhove, L.; Vecerová, K.; Ven, A.; Verbruggen, E.; Vik, U.; Weigel, R.; Wohlgemuth, T.; Wood, L.K.; Zinnert, J.; Zurba, K.; the, ClimMani, Working, Group (John Wiley and Sons, 2020)
      Climate change is a world-wide threat to biodiversity and ecosystem structure, functioning and services. To understand the underlying drivers and mechanisms, and to predict the consequences for nature and people, we urgently ...
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      The Health Effects of Climate Change: A Survey of Recent Quantitative Research 

      Grasso, Margherita; Manera, Matteo; Chiabai, Aline; Markandya, Anil (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-25)
      In recent years there has been considerable scientific and public debate on climate change and its direct and indirect effects on human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2006), some 2.5 million people ...
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      The Health Impacts of Climate Change: A Study of Cholera in Tanzania 

      Traerup, Sara L. M.; Arigoni Ortiz, Ramon; Markandya, Anil (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-01-08)
      Increased temperatures and changes in patterns of rainfall as a result of climate change are widely recognized to entail serious consequences for human health, including the risk of diarrheal diseases. Indeed, there is ...
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      The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs 

      Lumbreras, S.; Gómez, J.D.; Alvarez, E.F.; Huclin, S. (Sustainability (Switzerland), 2022)
      The decarbonization of the energy sector puts additional pressure on the transmission network. The main cause for this is that renewable sources are often more abundant in geographical areas far away from the main demand ...
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      The impact of multipurpose dams on the values of nature's contributions to people under a water-energy-food nexus framing 

      Foudi, S.; McCartney, M.; Markandya, A.; Pascual, U. (Ecological Economics, 2023-04-01)
      The paper proposes a probabilistic approach to the assessment of the impacts of multipurpose dams. It is framed around the notion of Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) in the setting of the Water-Energy-Food nexus. The ...
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      The Impact of U.S. Re-engagement in Climate on the Paris Targets 

      van de Ven, D.J.; Westphal, M.; González-Eguino, M.; Gambhir, A.; Peters, G.; Sognnaes, I.; McJeon, H.; Hultman, N.; Kennedy, K.; Cyrs, T.; Clarke, L. (Earth's Future, 2021)
      The Paris Agreement seeks to combine international efforts to keep global temperature increase to well-below 2°C. Whilst current ambitions in many signatories are insufficient to achieve this goal, optimism prevailed in ...
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      The impacts of decarbonization pathways on Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union 

      Moreno, J.; Campagnolo, L.; Boitier, B.; Nikas, A.; Koasidis, K.; Gambhir, A.; Gonzalez-Eguino, M.; Perdana, S.; Van de Ven, D.J.; Chiodi, A.; Delpiazzo, E.; Doukas, H.; Gargiulo, M.; Herbst, A.; Al-Dabbas, K.; Alibaş, Ş.; Neuner, F.; Le Mouël, P.; Vielle, M. (Communications Earth and Environment, 2024-12-01)
      Climate action to achieve the Paris Agreement should respect the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we use an integrated assessment modelling framework comprising nine climate policy models and quantify ...
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      The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances 

      Magrach, A. (Journal of Animal Ecology, 2023)
      Ogilvie, J. E., & CaraDonna, P. J. (2022). The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 2412– 2423. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365- 2656.13825. ...
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      The long road of climate negotiations: From Kyoto to Paris stopping over in Doha 

      Markandya, Anil; Unai Pascual (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-05)
      Expectations about the COP18 Doha round of climate negotiations were low and countries were successful in making some progress, but only incrementally. A second commitment period (from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2020) ...
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      The Long Run Demand for Lighting: Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development 

      Fouquet, Roger; Pearson, Peter J. G. (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-26)
      The provision of artificial light was revolutionised by a series of discontinuous innovations in lighting appliances, fuels, infrastructures and institutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Britain, the ...
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      The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity 

      Moreno-Mateos, D.; Alberdi, A.; Morriën, E.; van der Putten, W. H.; Rodríguez-Uña, A.; Montoya, D. (Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2020-05-01)
      Multiple large-scale restoration strategies are emerging globally to counteract ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss. However, restoration often remains insufficient to offset that loss. To address this challenge, ...
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      The natural capital accounting opportunity: Let s really do the numbers 

      Boyd, J.W.; Bagstad, K.J.; Ingram, J.C.; Shapiro, C.D.; Adkins, J.E.; Frank, Casey C.; Duke, C.S.; Glynn, P.D.; Goldman, E.; Grasso, M.; Hass, J.L.; Johnson, J.A.; Lange, G.-M.; Matuszak, J.; Miller, A.; Oleson, K.L.L.; Posner, S.M.; Rhodes, C.; Soulard, F.; Vardon, M.; Villa, F.; Voigt, B.; Wentland, S. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
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      The nexus between climate change, ecosystem services and human health: Towards a conceptual framework 

      Chiabai, A; Quiroga, S.; Martinez-Juarez, P.; Higgins, S.; Taylor, T. (Science of the Total Environment, 2018)
      This paper addresses the impact that changes in natural ecosystems can have on health and wellbeing focusing on the potential co-benefits that green spaces could provide when introduced as climate change adaptation measures. ...