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How regulating and cultural services of ecosystems have changed over time in Italy
(One Ecosystem, 2022)
In this experimental study, different components are computed for three different ecosystem services (ES). Specifically, supply, demand and use are estimated for pollination service, flood risk regulation service and ...
Returns to Scale and Technical Efficiency in Colombian Coffee Production: Implications for Colombia’s Agricultural and Land Policies
(Studies in Agricultural Economics, 2022)
This paper applies a parametric approach to estimate technical and scale (in)efficiencies using input and output data at the level of 850 individual Colombian coffee-farms. Different Stochastic Production Frontier functions ...
Institutionalisation of urban climate adaptation: three municipal experiences in Spain
(Buildings and Cities, 2022)
Comparative studies of urban adaptation have evaluated the progress, means and scope of adaptation planning. Practice on the ground shows that the local politics of climate adaptation advance through various strategies to ...
Consumer purchases of energy-efficient cars: How different labelling schemes could affect consumer response to price changes
(Energy Policy, 2020)
Improved energy efficiency can help reduce pollution, contribute to energy security, and help consumers save money. This paper explores energy labelling schemes as a policy instrument for promoting energy-efficient cars ...
(Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico
(Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022)
The ongoing expansion of renewable energies entails major spatial reconfigurations with social, environmental, and political dimensions. These emerging geographies are, however, in the process of taking shape, as their ...
How to get commuters out of private cars? Exploring the role of perceived social impacts in mode choice in five European countries
(Energy Research and Social Science, 2022)
Shifting away from private vehicle use in urban areas is a necessary step in the decarbonisation of mobility. A thorough understanding of the determinants of travel mode choice is paramount for developing policies that can ...
Sustainability Assessment of Pasture-Based Dairy Sheep Systems: A Multidisciplinary and Multiscale Approach
(MDPI, 2021-04-02)
This article describes a novel methodological approach for the integrated sustainability assessment of pasture-based dairy sheep systems. Most studies on livestock system sustainability focus on animal production, farm ...
Short- and long-term warming effects of methane may affect the cost-effectiveness of mitigation policies and benefits of low-meat diets
(Nature Food, 2021)
© 2021, The Author(s).Methane’s short atmospheric life has important implications for the design of global climate change mitigation policies in agriculture. Three different agricultural economic models are used to explore ...
Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023-01-01)
There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have supported social-ecological systems over ...
Forest expansion in mountain protected areas: Trends and consequences for the landscape
(Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021)
Mountain regions in Western Europe have gone through a massive rural urban migration and the collapse of their traditional socioeconomic system. As a result, forest has occupied many old pastures and croplands. In protected ...