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      Determining discount rates for the evaluation of natural assets in land-use planning: An application of the Equivalency Principle 

      Markanday, A.; Galarraga, I.; Chiabai, A.; Sainz de Murieta Zugadi, Elisa; Lliso, B. (Elsevier, 2019)
      One of the most pressing issues when making decisions over long-term environmental problems is deciding on an appropriate discount rate. This can be a highly technical discussion. While some argue in favour of market rates, ...
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      Determining freshwater lake communities’ vulnerability to snowstorms in the northwest territories 

      Baijnath‐rodino, J. A.; Albizua, Amaia; Sushama, M.; Bennet, E.; Robinson, B. E. (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 ...
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      Determining the economic costs and benefits of conservation actions: A decision support framework 

      White, T.B.; Petrovan, S.O.; Booth, H.; Correa, R.J.; Gatt, Y.; Martin, P.A.; Newell, H.; Worthington, T.A.; Sutherland, W.J. (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 ...
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      Developing countries can adapt to climate change effectively using nature-based solutions 

      Villamayor-Tomas, S.; Bisaro, A; Moull, K.; Albizua, A.; Mank, I.; Hinkel, J.; Leppert, G.; Noltze, M. (Communications Earth and Environment, 2024-12-01)
      Evidence on the effectiveness of climate change adaptation interventions in low- and middle-income countries has been rapidly growing in recent years, particularly in the agricultural and coastal sectors. Here we address ...
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      Development and application of environmental integrated assessment modelling towards sustainability 

      Capellán Pérez, Iñigo (2016-06-03)
      Los Modelos Ambientales de Evaluación Integrada (MEIs) constituyen una potente herramienta que integra diferentes disciplinas y dimensiones para informar en la toma de decisiones hacia la sostenibilidad. En esta tesis ...
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      Development of a low-temperature immersion microscopy technique for ice research 

      Muniozguren-Arostegi, B.; Muñoz-Marzagon, P.; Faria, S.H. (Annals of Glaciology, 2024-01-01)
      Perennial ice can be studied for many purposes, including paleoclimate records or rheological properties. For most of those purposes, the ice microstructure must be studied, often through optical microscopy. The aim of ...
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      Development of a new modelling framework to estimate the C footprint from Basque dairy farms 

      Prado, Agustin del; Mas, Karlos; Pardo, Guillermo; Gallejones, Patricia (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
      There is world-wide concern for the contribution of dairy farming to global warming. However, there is still a need to improve the quantification of the C-footprint of dairy farming systems under different production systems ...
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      Differences in temperature sensitivity and drought recovery between natural stands and plantations of conifers are species-specific 

      Camarero, J. J.; Gazol, A.; Linares, J. C.; Fajardo, A.; Colangelo, M.; Sánchez-Salguero, R.; Valeriano, C.; Sangüesa-Barreda, G.; Granda, E.; Gimeno, T. E. (Science of the Total Environment, 2021-11-20)
      Forests are being impacted by climate and land-use changes which have altered their productivity and growth. Understanding how tree growth responds to climate in natural and planted stands may provide valuable information ...
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      (Dis) integrated valuation – Assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support 

      Barton, D.N; Kelemen, E.; Dick, J.; Martin-Lopez, B.; Gómez-Baggethun, E.; Jacobs, S.; Hendriks, C.M.A.; Termansen, M.; García-Llorente, M.; Primmer, E.; Dunford, R.; Harrison, P.A.; Turkelboom, F.; Saarikoski, H.; van Dijk, J.; Rusch, G.M.; Palomo, I.; Yli-Pelkonen, V.J.; Carvalho, L.; Baró, F.; Langemeyer, J.; van der Wal, J.T.; Mederly, P.; Priess, J.A.; Luque, S.; Berry, P.; Santos, R.; Odee, D.; Pastur, G.M.; García Blanco, G.; Saarela, S.R.; Silaghi, D.; Pataki, G.; Masi, F.; Vădineanu, A.; Mukhopadhyay, R.; Lapola, D.M. (Ecosystem Services, 2018)
      The operational challenges of integrated ecosystem service (ES) appraisals are determined by study purpose, system complexity and uncertainty, decision-makers requirements for reliability and accuracy of methods, and ...
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      (Dis) integrated valuation – Assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support 

      Barton, D. N.; Kelemen, E.; Martin-Lopez, B.; Gómez-Baggethun, E.; Jacobs, S.; Hendriks, C. M. A.; Termansen, M.; García-Llorente, M.; Primmer, E.; Dunford, R.; Harrison, P. A.; Turkelboom, F.; Saarikoski, H.; van Dijk, J.; Rusch, G. M.; Palomo, I.; Yli-Pelkonen, V. J.; Carvalho, L.; Baró, F.; Langemeyer, J.; van der Wal, J. T.; Mederly, P.; Priess, J. A.; Luque, S.; Berry, P.; Santos, R.; Odee, D.; Pastur, G. M.; García Blanco, G.; Saarela, S. R.; Silaghi, D.; Pataki, G.; Masi, F.; Vădineanu, A.; Mukhopadhyay, R.; Lapola, D. M. (Ecosystem Services, 2018-02-01)
      The operational challenges of integrated ecosystem service (ES) appraisals are determined by study purpose, system complexity and uncertainty, decision-makers requirements for reliability and accuracy of methods, and ...
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      Discounting the value of natural resources in costbenefit analysis: a case study for policy making 

      Chiabai, Aline; Galarraga, Ibon (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-10)
      The issue of discounting (i.e. how future cost and benefits are valued today) plays a major role in policies with long-term effects on the natural environment, such as those required in a climate change context, or decisions ...
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      Disentangling the Role of Forest Structure and Functional Traits in the Thermal Balance of the Mediterranean–Temperate Ecotone 

      Barbeta, A.; Miralles, D.G.; Mendiola, L.; Gimeno, T.E.; Sabaté, S.; Carnicer, J. (Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2023-06-01)
      The thermal balance of forests is the result of complex land–atmosphere interactions. Different climate regimes and plant functional types can have contrasting energy budgets, but little is known about the influence of ...
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      Distance and Regional Effects on the Value of Wild Bee Conservation 

      Moreaux, C.; Jacobsen, J.B.; Meyerhoff, J.; Dalsgaard, B.; Rahbek, C.; Strange, N. (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2023)
      Many wild bee species are threatened across Europe, and with them the pollination function they provide. While numerous studies have assessed the value of bees as pollinators of crops, little is known about the non-marked ...
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      Distribution of responsibility for climate change within the milieu 

      Droz, L. (Philosophies, 2021-09-01)
      This article approaches the challenges of the distribution of responsibility for climate change on a local level using the framework of the milieu. It suggests that the framework of the milieu, inspired by Japanese and ...
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      Distributional analysis of climate change mitigation policies 

      García González, Joaquín (2017-01-27)
      En los últimos años ha habido un creciente interés sobre la desigualdad así como sobre los análisis distributivos de las distintas políticas. La desigualdad también se ha convertido en uno de los principales temas de debate ...
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      Divergences in the Long Run Trends in the Price of Energy and of Energy Services 

      Fouquet, Roger (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-03-03)
      This paper presents new evidence on the very long run trends in the price of energy and energy services, such as heat, power, transport and light. The paper has two purposes. First, it shows that, in general, there was an ...
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      Diverse values of nature for sustainability 

      Pascual, U.; Balvanera, P.; Anderson, C.B.; Chaplin-Kramer, R.; Christie, M.; González-Jiménez, D.; Martin, A.; Raymond, C.M.; Termansen, M.; Vatn, A.; Athayde, S.; Baptiste, B.; Barton, D.N.; Jacobs, S.; Kelemen, E.; Kumar, R.; Lazos, E.; Mwampamba, T.H.; Nakangu, B.; O’Farrell, P.; Subramanian, S.M.; van Noordwijk, M.; Ahn, S.E.; Amaruzaman, S.; Amin, A.M.; Arias-Arévalo, P.; Arroyo-Robles, G.; Cantú-Fernández, M.; Castro, A.J.; Contreras, V.; De Vos, A.; Dendoncker, N.; Engel, S.; Eser, U.; Faith, D.P.; Filyushkina, A.; Ghazi, H.; Gómez-Baggethun, E.; Gould, R.K.; Guibrunet, L.; Gundimeda, H.; Hahn, T.; Harmáčková, Z.V.; Hernández-Blanco, M.; Horcea-Milcu, A.I.; Huambachano, M.; Wicher, N.L.H.; Aydın, C.I.; Islar, M.; Koessler, A.K.; Kenter, J.O.; Kosmus, M.; Lee, H.; Leimona, B.; Lele, S.; Lenzi, D.; Lliso, B.; Mannetti, L.M.; Merçon, J.; Monroy-Sais, A.S.; Mukherjee, N.; Muraca, B.; Muradian, R.; Murali, R.; Nelson, S.H.; Nemogá-Soto, G.R.; Ngouhouo-Poufoun, J.; Niamir, A.; Nuesiri, E.; Nyumba, T.O.; Özkaynak, B.; Palomo, I.; Pandit, R.; Pawłowska-Mainville, A.; Porter-Bolland, L.; Quaas, M.; Rode, J.; Rozzi, R.; Sachdeva, S.; Samakov, A.; Schaafsma, M.; Sitas, N.; Ungar, P.; Yiu, E.; Yoshida, Y.; Zent, E. (Nature, 2023-08-24)
      Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values ...
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      DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats 

      Alberdi, Antton; Razgour, Orly; Aizpurua Arrieta, Ostaizka ORCID; Novella Fernández, Roberto; Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón ORCID; Budinski, Ivana; Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio ORCID; Ibáñez, Carlos; Izagirre Estibaritz, Eñaut ORCID; Rebelo, Hugo; Russo, Danilo; Vlaschenko, Anton; Zhelyazkova, Violeta; Zrnčić, Vida; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (Nature, 2020-03-02)
      Inferences of the interactions between species' ecological niches and spatial distribution have been historically based on simple metrics such as low-resolution dietary breadth and range size, which might have impeded the ...
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      Double accounting in energy footprint and related assessments: How common is it and what are the consequences? 

      Usubiaga-Liaño, A.; Arto, I.; Acosta-Fernández, J. (ENERGY, 2021)
      The number of input-output assessments focused on energy has grown considerably in the last years. Many of these assessments combine data from multi-regional input-output (MRIO) databases with energy extensions that ...
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      Drivers and spread of non-native pests in forests: The case of Gonipterus platensis in Spanish Eucalyptus plantations 

      Adame, P.; Alberdi, I.; Cañellas, I.; Hernández, L.; Aguirre, A.; Moreno-Fernández, D.; Ruano, A.; Isabel González, A.; Torres, M. B.; Montes, F. (Forest Ecology and Management, 2022-04-15)
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