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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 ...
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, ...
Comparative analysis of the socio-economic characteristics of Delta and Non-Delta spaces of Ghana: An input-output approach
(African Review of Economics and Finance, 2019-07-08)
This paper provides insights into the current socioeconomic and biophysical state of
the Volta Delta, Ghana. We employed non-survey methods, notably the Flegg Location
Quotient (FLQ) method of regionalization and ...
Are protected areas covering important biodiversity sites? An assessment of the nature protection network in Sicily (Italy)
(Land Use Policy, 2018-11-01)
GIS spatial analysis of three indicators (vegetation value, faunal richness and landscape heterogeneity) was used to detect and map High-Value Biodiversity Areas (HVBAs), estimate the coverage of biodiversity in the Sicilian ...
COP23: Technical profile with relevant political support
(Dyna (Spain), 2018-01-01)
La Conferencia de las Partes de la Con-vención Marco de Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático (UNFCCC, por sus siglas en inglés), conocida como la COP 23, se celebró en Bonn (Alemania) entre los días 7 y 18 de noviembre ...