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Exploring low-carbon futures: A web service approach to linking diverse climate-energy-economy models
(MDPI, 2019)
The use of simulation models is essential when exploring transitions to low-carbon futures and climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. There are many models developed to understand socio-environmental processes ...
Evaluating social learning in participatory mapping of ecosystem services
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
Recent studies have shown the opportunities and limitations of participatory mapping for ecosystem services management, although it is an incipient research area. One of the research questions yet to be addressed is whether ...
Are local climate adaptation policies credible? A conceptual and operational assessment framework
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
After the Paris Agreement that put stronger emphasis on the development of climate change adaptation policies and on the definition of financing mechanisms, there is a patent need to track whether actual planning efforts ...
Economic viability of the national-scale forestation program: The case of success in the Republic of Korea
(Elsevier, 2018)
The forests in the Republic of Korea (ROK) successfully recovered through the national forestation program as did the ecosystem services associated with them. With this positive experience, it is instructive to investigate ...
Edge disturbance drives liana abundance increase and alteration of liana host tree interactions in tropical forest fragments
(John Wiley and Sons, 2018)
Closed-canopy forests are being rapidly fragmented across much of the tropical world. Determining the impacts of fragmentation on ecological processes enables better forest management and improves species-conservation ...
Ecosystem-based management planning across aquatic realms at the Ria de Aveiro Natura 2000 territory
(Elsevier, 2019)
Ria de Aveiro represents a coastal territory, in which its natural capital, mostly classified under a Natura 2000 network of protected areas, is of paramount importance for the regional and national economy, supporting ...
Nature s contributions to people in mountains: A review
(PLoS One, 2019)
Mountains play a key role in the provision of nature s contributions to people (NCP) worldwide that support societies quality of life. Simultaneously, mountains are threatened by multiple drivers of change. Due to the ...
Machine learning for ecosystem services
(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 ...
Characterising the rural-urban gradient through the participatory mapping of ecosystem services: Insights for landscape planning
(Pensoft Publishers, 2018)
The application of the ecosystem services (ES) framework in landscape planning has become particularly relevant in rural-urban gradients since it allows for the integration of the complex interactions between ES supply and ...
The role of flexible biofuel policies in meeting biofuel mandates
(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 ...