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Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan: an ESGAP assessment
(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 ... -
More exposure opportunities for promoting freshwater conservation
(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 ... -
Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values
(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 ... -
Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits
(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 ... -
Multi-level finance impacts on participation, inclusion, and equity: Bricolage and Fuzziness in NextGenerationEU-funded renaturing projects
(Environmental Science and Policy, 2024-06-01)We analyze a multi-level ad-hoc emergency fund (MAEF) – the European NextGenerationEU program – as an opportunity to advance ambitious municipal climate action. Presently, MAEF follow a vertical complex governance structure, ... -
Multi-temporal influence of vegetation on soil respiration in a droughtaffected forest
(SISEF, 2018)Aboveground plant activity influences fine roots and rhizosphere activity, which is reflected on soil respiration (SR). However, it is still unclear and poorly understood the nature of plant activity control over SR, ... -
Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships
(People and Nature, 2023)The need for a pluralistic approach to biodiversity conservation science and policy is increasingly being recognized. We argue that plural perspectives require multilingualism in the sources and processes. Unless the ... -
Multiple perspectives of resilience: A holistic approach to resilience assessment using cognitive maps in practitioner engagement
(Elsevier, 2020)Resilience has become a regulatory concept influencing investment decisions in the water and wastewater sector. However, current assessments predominantly focus on technical resilience and on engineering solutions. Here ... -
Nations’ water footprints and virtual water trade of wood products
(Advances in Water Resources, 2022)Several studies addressed the water footprint (WF) of countries and virtual water (VW) trade in agricultural and industrial products, but freshwater use associated with wood products has received little attention. Yet, ... -
Natural insurance as condition for market insurance: Climate change adaptation in agriculture
(Elsevier, 2020)This paper focuses on the potential use of insurance as a climate change adaptation mechanism in agriculture. We analyse the attractiveness of a climate risk insurance scheme and the choices farmers face between adaptation ... -
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 ... -
Nature’s contribution to adaptation: insights from examples of the transformation of social-ecological systems
(Ecosystems and People, 2020-01-01)Transformation of social-ecological systems due to climate change requires, transformative adaptation responses. We propose the concept of nature s contribution to adaptation (NCA; previously called adaptation services), ... -
New coal-fired plants jeopardise paris agreement
(MDPI, 2017)Global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak soon and be reduced practically to zero in the second half of this century in order to not exceed the climate targets adopted in the Paris Agreement. However, there are currently ... -
Niche complementarity among pollinators increases community-level plant reproductive success
(Peer Community in Ecology, 2020-06-01)Declines in pollinator diversity and abundance have been reported across different regions, with implications for the reproductive success of plant species. However, research has focused primarily on pairwise plant-pollinator ... -
Nola aurre egin itsas garraioak eragindako klima-aldaketari? Estrategia berriak
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2020)Currently maritime transport is growing due to globalization and economic growth, and it transports approximately the 90% of the world’s goods. World maritime transport fleet is increasing in amount and in size of vessels ... -
Nola aurre egin itsas garraioak eragindako klima-aldaketari? Estrategia berriak
(Ekaia, 2020-01-31)Gaur egun, itsas garraioak munduko ondasunen % 90 mugitzen du. Ekonomiaren hazkundea eta globalizazioa direla-eta, garraio mota hori goraka doa. Munduko garraio-ontzi flotaren kopurua hazten doan neurrian, fuel-olioaren ... -
NonParRolCor: An R package for estimating rolling correlation for two regular time series
(SoftwareX, 2023)The R package NonParRolCor estimates rolling window correlations between two regular time series. The statistical significance estimated for the rolling correlation coefficients addresses effects due to multiple testing. ... -
Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability
(IOP Publishing, 2017-07)The connected nature of social-ecological systems has never been more apparent than in today's globalized world. The ecosystem service framework and associated ecosystem assessments aim to better inform the science-policy ... -
Old wind farm life extension vs. Full repowering: A review of economic issues and a stochastic application for Spain
(Energies, 2021-06-02)The installation of wind power technology is growing steadily and the trend can be expected to continue if the objectives proposed by the European Commission are to be achieved. In some countries a considerable percentage ... -
On flexible hydropower and security of supply: Spain beyond 2020
(Elsevier, 2020)Generation adequacy is a key ingredient to security of electricity supply (SoS). Some national plans envisage a future decrease in the number of coal-fired stations and an increase in renewable installed capacity. This ...