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Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in the Ebro River Basin: From Theory to Facts
(MDPI, 2015)
In this article, we analyze how successful the implementation of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the Ebro river catchment (in Spain) has been. Our main aim is to show some gaps between theory and practice. ...
Lima COP20: Another small step on the long road to Paris
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-01)
The Lima summit was not expected to achieve specific agreements on the reduction of emissions, but to establish the bases of a legal document to be agreed on at the next meeting in Paris (December 2015) and of the Intended ...
Modelling ecosystem services trade-offs in agricultural systems
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-02)
*Agriculture is a source of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services, and depends on them to function. *Reducing negative trade-offs and identifying potential synergies between ecosystem services demands a ...
Impuestos ambientales sobre la contaminación del aire y el cambio climático: un análisis comparativo de los impactos distributivos para España
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-10)
Los impactos distributivos de los impuestos ambientales son claves para su viabilidad política. - El efecto de los impuestos ambientales en el bienestar es reducido, especialmente cuando se reciclan los ingresos. - Los ...
Under what conditions is the bioethanol and biodiesel produced entirely in the Basque Country sustainable?
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-05)
*The process of agricultural production, and especially anything related to the management of fertilisation, largely determines the uncertainty in the estimation of the different environmental impact of biofuel production. ...
Environmental justice: instrumental for conserving natural resources
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-07)
Environmental justice constitutes an instrumental element for conservation. - Environmental justice is based on the principles of equity, recognition of different values and inclusive decision processes. - Social equity ...
La verdadera pérdida causada por las políticas de compensación de la biodiversidad
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-12)
•Los ecosistemas son sistemas complejos irremplazables •Los ecosistemas tienen valores ecológicos, instrumentales y no instrumentales •Existen perdidas ecológicas, normativas y morales que no se consideran en las políticas ...
European biofuels policy and its contribution to a low carbon future
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-12)
•There is an increasing urgency of decarbonising the EU transport sector. •Biofuels are expected to play a significant role in the transition to a low-carbon economy. •The EU has intensively promoted biofuels since 2000, ...