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Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy
(LAND USE POLICY, 2021)
The European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has failed to achieve its aim of preserving European farmland biodiversity, despite massive investment in subsidies to incentivise environmentally-beneficial farming ...
The Effect of Providing Monetary Information on Energy Savings for Household Appliances: A Field Trial in Spain
(Journal of Consumer Policy, 2021-06-01)
Energy labels are one of the most widely used policies in the European Union for increasing the energy efficiency of household appliances. However, their effectiveness in promoting energy-efficient purchases has sometimes ...
Promoting energy efficiency at household level: a literature review
(Energy Efficiency, 2021-01-01)
The household sector is one of the most energy-intensive sectors in Europe, and thus a focal point for reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy consumption. Energy efficiency is considered a key measure to ...
Consumers’ preferences regarding energy efficiency: a qualitative analysis based on the household and services sectors in Spain
(Energy Efficiency, 2021)
Informational failures frequently lead consumers to make non-optimal energy-efficient purchasing decisions. Energy efficiency labels seek to influence consumer behaviour at the point of sale by reducing informational ...
Measuring the long-term recovery of forest ecosystems after anthropogenic disturbances to improve restoration strategies and outcomes.
(2021-06-11)
Ecological restoration is today globally implemented to mitigate forest degradation and biodiversity loss. However, restored forests do not commonly recover pre-disturbance levels of structure, functions or services. One ...
Hidden Energy Flow indicator to reflect the outsourced energy requirements of countries
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021-01-01)
Globalisation and the outsourcing of industrial manufacturing from developed to less developed countries has an increasing effect on the national energy balances of most developed economies. The current standard metric ...