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      The price of energy efficiency in the Spanish housing market 

      De Ayala, A.; Galarraga, I.; Spadaro, J.V. (Energy Policy, 2016)
      The housing sector is a substantial consumer of energy, and therefore a focus for energy savings efforts. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), introduced in 2002 and revised in 2010, is a key instrument ...
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      The resurgence of commons and the governance of traditional commons systems at risk: The case of Enirio-Aralar 

      García Alonso, Oihana ORCID; Etxano Gandariasbeitia, Iker ORCID; Garmendia Oleaga, Eneko (Lurralde: Investigacion y Espacio, 2018)
      The study of commons has resurged vigorously. In this context the analysis of traditional grazing commons whose governance is subject to great challenges associated with changing socio-economic conditions and the co-existence ...
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      The Role and Need for Space-Based Forest Biomass-Related Measurements in Environmental Management and Policy 

      Herold, M.; Carter, S.; Avitabile, V.; Espejo, A.B.; Jonckheere, I.; Lucas, R.; McRoberts, R.E.; Næsset, E.; Nightingale, J.; Petersen, R.; Reiche, J.; Romijn, E.; Rosenqvist, A.; Rozendaal, D.M.A.; Seifert, F.M.; Sanz, M.J.; De, Sy, V. (Springer, 2019)
      The achievement of international goals and national commitments related to forest conservation and management, climate change, and sustainable development requires credible, accurate, and reliable monitoring of stocks and ...
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      The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 

      Vinuesa, R.; Azizpour, H.; Leite, I.; Balaam, M.; Dignum, V.; Domisch, S.; Felländer, A.; Langhans, S.D.; Tegmark, M.; Fuso, Nerini, F. (Springer Nature, 2020)
      The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a consensus-based expert ...
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      The role of flexible biofuel policies in meeting biofuel mandates 

      Markandya, A.; Dhavala, K.; Palma, A. (AIMS Press, 2018)
      The paper analyzes the role of biofuel sector in three major regions (USA, European Union and Brazil). It focuses on the links between volatility in the yields of feedstock and how these yields feed through to changes in ...
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      The role of forests in the EU climate policy: are we on the right track? 

      Korosuo, A.; Korosuo, R.; Abad Viñas, R.; Blujdea, V.N.B.; Colditz, R.R.; Fiorese, G.; Rossi, S.; Vizzarri, M.; Grassi, G. (Carbon Balance and Management, 2023-12-01)
      Background: The European Union (EU) has committed to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This requires a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ensuring that any remaining emissions are balanced through CO2 ...
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      The role of indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation 

      Dawson, N. M.; Coolsaet, B.; Sterling, E. J.; Loveridge, R.; Gross-Camp, N. D.; Wongbusarakum, S.; Sangha, K, K.; Scherl, L. M.; Phan, H. P.; Zafra-Calvo, N.; Lavey, W. G.; Byakagaba, P.; Idrobo, C. J.; Chenet, A.; Bennett, N. J.; Mansourian, S.; Rosado-Ma, F. J. (Ecology and Society, 2021-01-01)
      Debate about what proportion of the Earth to protect often overshadows the question of how nature should be conserved and by whom. We present a systematic review and narrative synthesis of 169 publications investigating ...
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      The role of land use and land cover change in climate change vulnerability assessments of biodiversity: a systematic review 

      Santos, M. J.; Smith, A. B.; Dekker, S. C.; Eppinga, M. B.; Leitão, P. J.; Moreno-Mateo, D.; Morueta-Holme, N.; Ruggeri, M. (Landscape Ecology, 2021-12-01)
      For many organisms, responses to climate change (CC) will be affected by land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC). However, the extent to which LULCC is concurrently considered in climate change vulnerability assessments ...
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      The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change 

      Arias-Arévalo, P.; Lazos-Chavero, E.; Monroy-Sais, A.S.; Nelson, S.H.; Pawlowska-Mainville, A.; Vatn, A.; Cantú-Fernández, M.; Murali, R.; Muraca, B.; Pascual, U. (Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023-10-01)
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      The role of the European small ruminant dairy sector in stabilising global temperatures: Lessons from GWP* warming-equivalent emission metrics 

      del Prado, A.; Manzano, P.; Pardo, G. (JOURNAL OF DAIRY RESEARCH, 2021)
      Recent calls advocate that a huge reduction in the consumption of animal products (including dairy) is essential to mitigate climate change and stabilise global warming below the 1.5 and 2°C targets. The Paris Agreement ...
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      The role of the social network structure on the spread of intensive agriculture: an example from Navarre, Spain 

      Albizua, Amaia; Bennett, E.; Pascual, U.; Larocque, G. (Regional Environmental Change, 2021-09-01)
      Social networks influence decision-making in agricultural landscapes by affecting how farmers access knowledge and resources. However, researchers ignore the disparate structures built to access different kinds of knowledge ...
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      The socioeconomic future of deltas in a changing environment 

      Arto, I.; García-Muros, X.; Cazcarro, I.; González, M.; Markandya, A.; Hazra, S. (Elsevier, 2019)
      Deltas are especially vulnerable to climate change given their low-lying location and exposure to storm surges, coastal and fluvial flooding, sea level rise and subsidence. Increases in such events and other circumstances ...
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      The stationary and non-stationary character of the silver fir, black pine and Scots pine tree-growth-climate relationships 

      Hereş, A. M.; Polanco-Martínez, J. M.; Petritan, I. C.; Petritan, A. M.; Curiel Yuste, J. (Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022-10-15)
      Tree-growth-climate relationships are usually assumed to have a stationary character, i.e., continuous and/or time-independent, along the lifetime of the trees. The fact that non-stationarity, i.e., discontinuous and/or ...
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      The sustainable management of land and fisheries resources using multicriteria techniques: A meta-analysis 

      Diaz-Balteiro, L.; Iglesias-Merchan, C.; Romero, C.; de Jalón, S.G. (Land, 2020)
      In recent years modern societies have attached a multifunctional requirement to the use of renewable resources, making their optimal sustainable management more complex. In the last decades, in many cases, this complexity ...
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      The voices of youth in envisioning positive futures for nature and people 

      Rana, s; Ávila-García, D.; Dib, V.; Familia, L.; Gerhardinger, L.C; Martin, E.; Martins, P. I.; Pompeu, J.; Selomane, O.; Tauli, J. I.; Tran, D. H. T.; Valle, M.; von Below, J.; Pereira, L. M. (Ecosystems and People, 2020-01-01)
      The unpredictable Anthropocene poses the challenge of imagining a radically different, equitable and sustainable world. Looking 100 years ahead is not easy, and especially as millennials, it appears quite bleak. This paper ...
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      Three different directions in which the European Union could replace Russian natural gas 

      Nikas, A.; Frilingou, N.; Heussaff, C.; Fragkos, P.; Mittal, S.; Sampedro, J.; Giarola, S.; Sasse, J.P.; Rinaldi, L.; Doukas, H.; Gambhir, A.; Giannousakis, A.; Golinucci, N.; Koasidis, K.; Rocco, M.V.; Trutnevyte, E.; Xexakis, G.; Zachmann, G.; Zisarou, E.; Colombo, E.; Hawkes, A.; Yarlagadda, B.; Binsted, M.; Iyer, G.; Johannsen, R.M.; Thellufsen, J.Z.; Lund, H.; Van de Ven, D.J. (Energy, 2024-03-01)
      Russia's invasion of Ukraine fuelled an energy crisis, which considerably impacted Europe given its heavy reliance on Russian natural gas imports. This study uses an ensemble of four global integrated assessment models, ...
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      Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain 

      Lieu, J.; Sorman, A.H.; Johnson, O.W.; Virla, L.D; Resurrección, B.P. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Transitions toward a low-carbon future are not only technical and economical, but also deeply social and gendered. The gendered nature of energy transitions is often implicit and unexplored. As a corrective, this paper ...
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      To what extent is climate change adaptation a novel challenge for agricultural modellers? 

      Kipling, R.P.; Topp, C.F.E.; Bannink, A.; Bartley, D.J.; Blanco-Penedo, I.; Cortignani, R.; del Prado, A.; Dono, G.; Faverdin, P.; Graux, A.-I.; Hutchings, N.J.; Lauwers, L.; Özkan, Gülzari, S.; Reidsma, P.; Rolinski, S.; Ruiz-Ramos, M.; Sandars, D.L.; Sándor, R.; Schönhart, M.; Seddaiu, G.; Van Middelkoop, J.; Shrestha, S.; Weindl, I.; Eory, V. (Elsevier, 2019)
      Modelling is key to adapting agriculture to climate change (CC), facilitating evaluation of the impacts and efficacy of adaptation measures, and the design of optimal strategies. Although there are many challenges to ...
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      Topography modulates climate sensitivity of multidecadal trends of holm oak decline 

      López-Ballesteros, A.; Rodríguez-Caballero, E.; Moreno, G.; Escribano, P.; Hereş, A.M.; Yuste, J.C. (Global Change Biology, 2023)
      Forest decline events have increased worldwide over the last decades being holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) one of the tree species with the most worrying trends across Europe. Since this is one of the tree species with the ...
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      Toward a just energy transition: A distributional analysis of low-carbon policies in the USA 

      García-Muros, X.; Morris, J.; Paltsev, S. (Energy Economics, 2022)
      Distributional impacts of environmental policies have become an increasingly important consideration in policymaking. To evaluate the distributional impacts of carbon pricing with different revenue recycling schemes for ...