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Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values
(People and Nature, 2022-04-01)
Nature is perceived and valued in many different ways. Often, the types of values that are the most important to people depend on how they cognitively frame desirable human–nature relations. For instance, the value of ...
Land-use practices (coppices and dehesas) and management intensity modulate responses of Holm oak growth to drought
(Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023-02-15)
Last decades increase in reported events of drought-induced tree mortality evidences how climate-change is transforming forest ecosystems all over the world. The parallel increase in human pressure over the land is also ...
Climate change perception: Driving forces and their interactions
(Environmental Science and Policy, 2020-06-01)
Public perception of climate change can either facilitate or hinder the implementation of climate policies. This perception is dependent on a number of influencing factors, called drivers, in ways that are still not clearly ...
Towards a multidimensional biodiversity index for national application
(Nature Sustainability, 2021-11-01)
The lack of urgent action to reverse biodiversity loss is partly due to the complex nature of biodiversity as a feature of our planet. Subsequently, policymakers receive an often-confusing variety of narratives on why ...
The case of a southern European glacier disappearing under recent warming that survived Roman and Medieval warm periods
(Cryosphere Discussions, 2020-06-08)
Mountain glaciers have generally experienced an accelerated retreat over the last three decades as a rapid response to current global warming. However, the response to previous warm periods in the Holocene is not well-described ...
Flight delays in Germany: a model for evaluation of future cost risk
(European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2022-01-01)
Air traffic has been increasing in Germany over the last decades reaching in 2018 an all-time high with more than 3 million flights. This increase has led to a rise in delays, which generate different costs to airlines, ...
On the role of social equity in payments for ecosystem services in Latin America: A practitioner perspective
(ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 2021)
One of the main debates surrounding payments for ecosystem services (PES) is to what extent should PES design focus on social equity concerns. While much of the debate is centered around theoretical arguments, here we focus ...
Payments for ecosystem services or collective stewardship of mother earth? Applying deliberative valuation in an indigenous community in Colombia
(Elsevier, 2020)
The literature on payments for ecosystem services (PES) applied in regions where indigenous peoples are key social actors has not cast much light on their preferences regarding the framing and design features that such ...
Determining freshwater lake communities’ vulnerability to snowstorms in the northwest territories
(Water (Switzerland), 2021-07-01)
As the exposure to extreme snowstorms continues to change in response to a warming climate, this can lead to higher infrastructure damages, financial instability, accessibility restrictions, as well as safety and health ...
Social networks influence farming practices and agrarian sustainability
(PLoS ONE, 2021-01-07)
The social-ecological effects of agricultural intensification are complex. We explore farmers perceptions about the impacts of their land management and the impact of social information flows on their management through ...