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Energy-efficiency policies for decarbonising residential heating in Spain: A fuzzy cognitive mapping approach
(Energy Policy, 2022-12-01)
Decarbonising residential heating poses a major challenge for the energy transition, but the policy attention devoted to and the support provided for it seem limited. There is a rather limited consideration of the perceptions ...
Accounting for the effects of employment, equity, and risk aversion in cost-benefit analysis: An application to an adaptation project
(Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2021-06-01)
This paper sets out to explore to what extent integrating employment effects, equity, and risk aversion within cost-benefit analysis (CBA) affect the economic appraisal of a climate change adaptation project designed to ...
The power of impact framing and experience for determining acceptable levels of climate change-induced flood risk: a lab experiment
(Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2022-02-01)
This study explores how individuals, when assuming the role of policymakers, determine acceptable levels of risk in response to (a) different framings of flood risk information and (b) after experiencing economic losses ...
Are we on the right path? Measuring progress towards environmental sustainability in European countries
(Sustainability Science, 2022-01-01)
Current environmental and sustainable development metrics fail to capture environmental sustainability from a strong sustainability perspective, which can lead to misleading messages around the urgency to reduce environmental ...
Mitigating the effects of omission errors on area and area change estimates
(Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020-01-01)
Information on Earth's land surface and change over time has never been easier to obtain, but making informed decisions to manage land well necessitates that this information is accurate and precise. In recent years, due ...
Assessing stakeholder preferences on low-carbon energy transitions
(Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy, 2020-01-01)
Low carbon transition pathways entail diverse uncertainties and risks in the underlying environmental, social, political, economic and technological factors. Inadequate information about such risks could affect the achievement ...
Assessment of sustainable land management practices in Mediterranean rural regions
(Journal of Environmental Management, 2022-12-15)
Sustainable land management practices can be suitable vehicles to simultaneously address the causes and consequences of land degradation, desertification, and climate change in land managed systems. Here, we assess the ...
Effects of historical land-use change in the Mediterranean environment
(Science of the Total Environment, 2020-08-25)
During the Holocene (last ~11,700 years), societies have continuously modified the landscape of the Mediterranean Basin through changes in land-use, exerting extraordinary pressures onto the environment and adding variability ...
Gender bias in ecosystem restoration: from science to practice
(Restoration Ecology, 2022-01-01)
The declaration of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2020–2030 has established the need to focus on human rights in restoration initiatives, including gender equality. Although this goal raises a need to ...
Influence of precision livestock farming on the environmental performance of intensive dairy goat farms
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022-06-01)
The implementation of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) concepts has been pointed out as an indirect strategy that could potentially help mitigating the environmental impacts of livestock production systems. To date, few ...