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      Machine learning for ecosystem services 

      Willcock, S.; Martínez-López, J.; Hooftman, D.A.P.; Bagstad, K.J.; Balbi, S.; Marzo, A.; Prato, C.; Sciandrello, S.; Signorello, G.; Voigt, B.; Villa, F.; Bullock, J.M.; Athanasiadis, I.N. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Recent developments in machine learning have expanded data-driven modelling (DDM) capabilities, allowing artificial intelligence to infer the behaviour of a system by computing and exploiting correlations between observed ...
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      Mapping land-use fluxes for 2001–2020 from global models to national inventories 

      Giacomo, G.; Schwingshackl, C.; Gasser, T.; Houghton, R. A.; Sitch, S.; Canadell, J. G.; Cescatti, A.; Ciais, P.; Federici, S.; Friedlingstein, P.; Sanz Sanchez, M. J.; Kurz, W. A.; Abad Viñas, R.; Alkama, R.; Ceccherini, G.; Kato, E.; Kennedy, D.; Knauer, J.; Korosuo, A.; McGrath, M. J.; Nabel, J.; Poulter, B.; Rossi, S.; Walker, A. P.; Yuan, W.; Yue, X.; Pongratz, J. (Earth Syst. Sci., 2022-08-22)
      With the focus of climate policy shifting from pledges to implementation, there is an increasing need to track progress on climate change mitigation at country level, especially for the land-use sector. Despite new tools ...
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      Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines 

      Muller, M.F.; Rusca, M.; Bertassello, L.; Adams, E.; Allaire, M.; Cabello Villarejo, V.; Levy, M.; Mukherjee, J.; Pokhrel, Y. (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2024-03-01)
      Coupled human-water systems (CHWS) are diverse and have been studied across a wide variety of disciplines. Integrating multiple disciplinary perspectives on CHWS provides a comprehensive and actionable understanding of ...
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      Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets 

      Chaplin-Kramer, R.; Neugarten, R.A.; Sharp, R.P.; Collins, P.M.; Polasky, S.; Hole, D.; Schuster, R.; Strimas-Mackey, M.; Mulligan, M.; Brandon, C.; Diaz, S.; Fluet-Chouinard, E.; Gorenflo, L.J.; Johnson, J.A.; Kennedy, C.M.; Keys, P.W.; Longley-Wood, K.; McIntyre, P.B.; Noon, M.; Pascual, U.; Reidy Liermann, C.; Roehrdanz, P.R.; Schmidt-Traub, G.; Shaw, M.R.; Spalding, M.; Turner, W.R.; van Soesbergen, A.; Watson, R.A. (Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2023)
      Sustaining the organisms, ecosystems and processes that underpin human wellbeing is necessary to achieve sustainable development. Here we define critical natural assets as the natural and semi-natural ecosystems that provide ...
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      Marginal Damage of Methane Emissions: Ozone Impacts on Agriculture 

      Sampedro, J.; Waldhoff, S.; Sarofim, M.; Van Dingenen, R. (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2023)
      Methane directly contributes to air pollution, as an ozone precursor, and to climate change, generating physical and economic damages to different systems, namely agriculture, vegetation, energy, human health, or biodiversity. ...
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      MEASURING PARTICIPATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY of CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES in URBAN PLANNING 

      Belausteguigoitia, J.; Alonso, I.; Chueca, A.; Elizegi, A.; Hierro, S.; Olavarri, L.; Sanz, E. (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2021-01-01)
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      Memory order decomposition of symbolic sequences 

      Alvarez-Rodriguez, U.; Latora, V. (Physical Review E, 2021-07-01)
      We introduce a general method for the study of memory in symbolic sequences based on higher-order Markov analysis. The Markov process that best represents a sequence is expressed as a mixture of matrices of minimal orders, ...
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      Methodological choices for reflecting strong sustainability in composite indices 

      Usubiaga-Liaño, A.; Ekins, P. (Ecological Economics, 2024-07-01)
      Composite indicators are widely used to represent sustainability or its underlying dimensions. Nonetheless, an alignment between the multiple choices made during their construction and the underlying conceptual framework ...
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      Mind the map? Mapping the academic, citizen and professional stakeholder views on buildings and heating behaviour in Spain 

      López-Bernabé, E.; Foudi, S.; Galarraga, I. (Elsevier, 2020)
      The residential building sector is a major driver of current and future energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions. The main use of energy by households is for heating. Consumers heating behaviour results from the ...
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      Mitigating the effects of omission errors on area and area change estimates 

      Olofsson, P.; Arévalo, P.; Espejo, A. B.; Green, C.; Lindquist, E.; McRoberts, R. E.; Sanz, M. J. (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 ...
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      Model validity and transferability informing behavioral energy policies 

      Kontogianni, A.; Damigos, D.; Skourtos, M.; Tourkolias, D.; Denny, E.; Galarraga, I.; Kallbekken, S.; Lakić, E. (Energies, 2021-06-01)
      A number of microeconomic choice models are currently applied to demonstrate systematic biases in energy consumer behavior. The models highlight the hidden potential of energy savings from policies that target the so-called ...
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      Modeling regional effects of climate change on soil organic carbon in Spain 

      Jebari, Asma; del Prado, Agustin; Pardo, Guillermo; Martín Rodríguez, Antonio, José; Álvaro-Fuentes, Jorge (American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science and Soil Science, 2018)
      Soil organic C (SOC) stock assessments at the regional scale under climate change scenarios are of paramount importance in implementing soil management practices to mitigate climate change. In this study, we estimated the ...
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      Modeling the impacts of diffuse light fraction on photosynthesis in ORCHIDEE (v5453) land surface model 

      Zhang, Y.; Bastos, A.; Maignan, F.; Goll, D.; Boucher, O.; Li, L.; Cescatti, A.; Vuichard, N.; Chen, X.; Ammann, C.; Altaf Arain, M.; Andrew Black, T.; Chojnicki, B.; Kato, T.; Mammarella, I.; Montagnani, L.; Roupsard, O.; Sanz Sanchez, M.J.; Siebicke, L.; Urbaniak, M.; Primo Vaccari, F.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Woodgate, W.; Ciais, P. (Geoscientific Model Development, 2020)
      Aerosol- and cloud-induced changes in diffuselight have important impacts on the global land carbon cy-cle, as they alter light distribution and photosynthesis in veg-etation canopies. However, this effect remains ...
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      Modeling trade-offs across carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and equity in the distribution of global REDD+ funds 

      Palomo, I.; Dujardin, Y.; Midler, E.; Robin, M.; Sanz, M.J.; Pascual, U. (National Academy of Sciences, 2019)
      The program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the major attempts to tackle climate change mitigation in developing countries. REDD+ seeks to provide result-based incentives ...
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      Modelling solid waste management solutions: The case of Campania, Italy 

      Di, Nola, M.F.; Escapa García, Marta ORCID; Ansah, J.P. (Elsevier, 2018)
      The waste crisis in Campania has inspired a huge body of literature that has described its complex nature. Quantitative analysis in this regard provides useful insight into single aspects of the problem but from a static ...
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      Moist and warm conditions in Eurasia during the last glacial of the Middle Pleistocene Transition 

      García-Muros; Sánchez Goñi, M.F.; Extier, T.; Polanco-Martínez, J.M.; Zorzi, C.; Rodrigues, T.; Bahr, A. (Nature communications, 2023)
      The end of the Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT, ~ 800-670 thousand years before present, ka) was characterised by the emergence of large glacial ice-sheets associated with anomalously warm North Atlantic sea surface ...
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      Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan: an ESGAP assessment 

      Sato, M.; Usubiaga-Liaño, A.; Fairbrass, A.; Ekins, P.; Asuka, J. (Sustainability Science, 2024-01-01)
      This paper assesses the environmental sustainability of Japan by applying the environmental sustainability gap (ESGAP) framework, which builds on the concepts of strong sustainability, critical natural capital, environmental ...
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      More exposure opportunities for promoting freshwater conservation 

      Jähnig, S. C.; He, F.; Wetzig, A.; Langhans, S. D. (Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 2021-12-01)
      Freshwater ecosystems have a higher percentage of threatened and extinct species than terrestrial or marine realms, but remain under-represented in conservation research and actions arguably as a consequence of less ...
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      Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values 

      Lliso, B.; Arias-Arévalo, P.; Maca-Millán, S.; Engel, S.; Pascual, U. (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 ...
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      Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits 

      Garmendia, E.; Aldezabal, E.; Galan, E.; Andonegi, A.; del Prado, A.; Gamboa, G.; Garcia, O.; Pardo, G.; Aldai, N.; Barron, L.J.R. (Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2022)
      Pastoral systems face increasing pressure from competing global markets, food sector industrialization, and new policies such as Europe’s post-2020 Common Agriculture Policy. This pressure threatens the use of extensive ...