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The global environmental agenda urgently needs a semantic web of knowledge
(Environmental Evidence, 2022)
Progress in key social-ecological challenges of the global environmental agenda (e.g., climate change, biodiversity conservation, Sustainable Development Goals) is hampered by a lack of integration and synthesis of existing ...
Storage and demand response contribution to firm capacity: Analysis of the Spanish electricity system
(Energy Reports, 2022)
Provision of firm capacity will become a challenge in power systems dominated by renewable generation. This paper analyzes the competitiveness and role of battery storage, six types of pumped-hydro storage, open cycle gas ...
Determining the economic costs and benefits of conservation actions: A decision support framework
(Conservation Science and Practice, 2022)
The need for conservation action to be cost-effective is widely accepted, resulting in increased interest and effort to assess effectiveness. Assessing the financial and economic costs of conservation is equally important ...
“We are the Green Capital”: Navigating the political and sustainability fix narratives of urban greening
(Cities, 2022)
With increasing attention on green(ing) cities, urban nature is used to increase liveability, to create new sectors such as tourism, and to boost international investment. What counts as desirable green intervention generally ...
Climate adaptation indicators and metrics: State of local policy practice
(Ecological Indicators, 2022)
Recent systematic reviews show that, overall, and across governance levels and sectors, climate change adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are rarely programmed and implemented. As a result, there is a ...
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production
(Communications Earth and Environment, 2022)
Agricultural production has replaced natural ecosystems across the planet, becoming a major driver of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and freshwater consumption. Here we combined global crop yield and environmental ...
Wildness and habitat quality drive spatial patterns of urban biodiversity
(Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022)
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) are key for biodiversity conservation. Many studies focus on UGBS benefits for well-being, but how UGBS ecological and quality influence urban biodiversity is still poorly understood. We ...
Don’t force it! Gradient speech categorization calls for continuous categorization tasks
(ASA, 2022)
Research on speech categorization and phoneme recognition has relied heavily on tasks in which participants listen
to stimuli from a speech continuum and are asked to either classify each stimulus (identification) or ...
Periphyton responses to nitrogen decline and warming in eutrophic shallow lake mesocosms
(Hydrobiologia, 2022-10-01)
Periphyton is a key primary producer in shallow lakes, sensitive to global warming and changes in nutrient balances. Reduced nitrogen availability due to accelerated denitrification at higher temperatures or in response ...
Information, Experience, and Willingness to Mitigate Mental Health Consequences From Flooding Through Collective Defence
(Water Resources Research, 2022-04-01)
Demand for reducing mental health impacts from flooding through collective flood defence is elicited using a contingent valuation method with a sequential hypothetical scenario, which accounts for human resilience and ...