Browsing BC3 Journal Articles by Author "Balbi, S."
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A game theory model to explore the role of cooperation and diversity in community food security: the case of Southern Malawi
Balbi, S.; Álvarez Rodríguez, Unai; Latora, V.; Antonioni, A.; Villa, F. (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2020)The Sustainable Development Goals aim at ending food insecurity by 2030. Therefore, civil society needs to understand the inherent complexities of both socio-economic and ecological dynamics and their interdependencies. ... -
Agent-based modelling to assess community food security and sustainable livelihoods
Dobbie, S.; Schreckenberg, K.; Dyke, J.G.; Schaafsma, M.; Balbi, S. (SimSoc Consortium, 2018)We present a methodological approach for constructing an agent-based model (ABM) to assess community food security and variation among livelihood trajectories, using rural Malawi as a case study. The approach integrates ... -
Are protected areas covering important biodiversity sites? An assessment of the nature protection network in Sicily (Italy)
Signorello, G.; Prato, C.; Marzo, A.; Ientile, R.; Cucuzza, G.; Sciandrello, S.; Martínez-López, J.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F. (Land Use Policy, 2018-11-01)GIS spatial analysis of three indicators (vegetation value, faunal richness and landscape heterogeneity) was used to detect and map High-Value Biodiversity Areas (HVBAs), estimate the coverage of biodiversity in the Sicilian ... -
Biophysical and economic assessment of four ecosystem services for natural capital accounting in Italy
Capriolo, A.; Boschetto, R.G.; Mascolo, R.A.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F. (Ecosystem Services, 2020)We present methods and results of country-based natural capital assessments for four ecosystem services (ES) in Italy. The spatial mapping and the assessment have been carried out in both physical and monetary terms for ... -
Combined artificial intelligence, sustainable land management, and stakeholder engagement for integrated landscape management in Mediterranean watersheds
Ruiz, I.; Pompeu, J.; Ruano, A.; Franco, P.; Balbi, S.; Sanz, M.J. (Environmental Science and Policy, 2023)In the context of water scarcity, soil erosion, and biodiversity decline, the Mediterranean basin urges to manage its nearly hundred coastal watersheds in a coordinated manner. To this end, we propose an integrated approach ... -
Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem-based management in fresh waters
Langhans, S.D.; Domisch, S.; Balbi, S.; Delacámara, G.; Hermoso, V.; Kuemmerlen, M.; Martin, R; Martínez-López, J.; Vermeiren, P.; Villa, F.; Jähnig, S.C. (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)Freshwater ecosystems are under a constant risk of being irreversibly damaged by human pressures that threaten their biodiversity, the sustainability of ecosystem services (ESs), and human well-being. Despite the implementation ... -
Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land
Kolosz, B.W.; Athanasiadis, I.N.; Cadisch, G.; Dawson, T.P.; Giupponi, C.; Honzák, M.; Martinez-Lopez, J.; Marvuglia, A.; Mojtahed, V.; Ogutu, K.B.Z.; Van Delden, H.; Villa, F.; Balbi, S. (Ecosystem Services, 2018)Essential environmental resources are rapidly exploited globally, while social-ecological systems at different scales fail to meet sustainable development challenges. Ecosystem services research, which at present predominantly ... -
Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land
Kolosz, B. W.; Athanasiadis, I. N.; Cadisch, G.; Dawson, T. P.; Giupponi, C.; Honzák, M.; Martinez-Lopez, J.; Marvuglia, A.; Mojtahed, V.; Ogutu, K. B. Z.; Van Delden, H.; Villa, F.; Balbi, S. (Ecosystem Services, 2018-10-01)Essential environmental resources are rapidly exploited globally, while social-ecological systems at different scales fail to meet sustainable development challenges. Ecosystem services research, which at present predominantly ... -
Cost-effective restoration and conservation planning in Green and Blue Infrastructure designs. A case study on the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean: Andalusia (Spain) Morocco
Barbosa, A.; Martín, B.; Hermoso, V.; Arévalo-Torres, J.; Barbière, J.; Martínez-López, J.; Domisch, S.; Langhans, S.D.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F.; Delacámara, G.; Teixeira, H.; Nogueira, A.J.A.; Lillebø, A.I.; Gil-Jiménez, Y.; McDonald, H.; Iglesias-Campos, A. (Elsevier, 2019)Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) is a network designed and planned to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and to protect biodiversity. Existing GBI designs lacked a systematic method to allocate restoration zones. ... -
Defining hotspots and coldspots of regulating and maintenance ecosystem services is key to effective marine management – An assessment of a coastal-open sea gradient, Portugal
Cunha, J.; Cabecinha, E.; Villasante, S.; Balbi, S.; Elliott, M.; Ramos, S. (Ocean and Coastal Management, 2023)Coastal and marine ecosystems provide valuable ecosystem services (ES) from which humans derive societal goods and benefits (SG&B) after inputting human capital. Their assessment and integration into management plans are ... -
Fire risk modeling: An integrated and data-driven approach applied to Sicily
Marquez Torres, A.; Signorello, G.; Kumar, S.; Adamo, G.; Villa, F.; Balbi, S. (Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023-09-06)Wildfires are key not only to landscape transformation and vegetation succession, but also to socio-ecological values loss. Fire risk mapping can help to manage the most vulnerable and relevant ecosystems impacted by ... -
How regulating and cultural services of ecosystems have changed over time in Italy
Capriolo, A,; Boschetto, R.G.; Mascolo, R.A.; Bulckaen, A.; Balbi, S.; Villla, F. (One Ecosystem, 2022)In this experimental study, different components are computed for three different ecosystem services (ES). Specifically, supply, demand and use are estimated for pollination service, flood risk regulation service and ... -
Human dependence on natural resources in rapidly urbanising South African regions
Balbi, S.; Selomane, O.; Sitas, N.; Blanchard, R.; Kotzee, I.; O'Farrell, P.; Villa, F. (IOP Publishing, 2019)Enhancing the governance of social-ecological systems for more equitable and sustainable development is hindered by inadequate knowledge about how different social groups and communities rely on natural resources. We used ... -
Identification of conservation and restoration priority areas in the Danube River based on the multi-functionality of river-floodplain systems
Funk, A.; Martínez-López, J.; Borgwardt, F.; Trauner, D.; Bagstad, K.J.; Balbi, S.; Magrach, A.; Villa, F.; Hein, T. (Elsevier, 2019)Large river-floodplain systems are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services but are also used for multiple human activities, making them one of the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. There is wide evidence that ... -
Machine learning for ecosystem services
Willcock, S.; Martínez-López, J.; Hooftman, D.A.P.; Bagstad, K.J.; Balbi, S.; Marzo, A.; Prato, C.; Sciandrello, S.; Signorello, G.; Voigt, B.; Villa, F.; Bullock, J.M.; Athanasiadis, I.N. (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 ... -
Participatory coastal management through elicitation of ecosystem service preferences and modelling driven by coastal squeeze
Martínez-López, J.; Teixeira, H.; Morgado, M.; Almagro, M.; Sousa, A.I.; Villa, F.; Balbi, S.; Genua-Olmedo, A.; Nogueira, A.J.A.; Lillebø, A.I. (Elsevier, 2019)The Baixo Vouga Lagunar (BVL) is part of Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon in Portugal, which is classified as a Special Protection Area under the European Habitats and Birds Directives. This part of the system, corresponding ... -
Platforms for ecosystem services modeling: An applied example to the northern Patagonia
Oddi, F.J.; Torres, A.M.; Pompeu, J.A.; Magrach, A.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F.; Garibaldi, L.A. (Ecologia Austral, 2023-12-01)Los avances tecnológicos y metodológicos de las últimas décadas (e.g., información satelital, potencia de los ordenadores, análisis geoespacial, desarrollo de algoritmos) facilitaron buscar soluciones a problemas complejos ... -
Pollination supply models from a local to global scale
Giménez-García, A.; Allen-Perkins, A.; Bartomeus, I.; Balbi, S.; Knapp, J.L.; Hevia, V.; Woodcock, B.A.; Smagghe, G.; Miñarro, M.; Eeraerts, M.; Colville, J.F.; Hipólito, J.; Cavigliasso, P.; Nates-Parra, G.; Herrera, J.M.; Cusser, S.; Simmons, B.I.; Wolters, V.; Jha, S.; Freitas, B.M.; Horgan, F.G.; Artz, A.R.; Sidhu, C.S.; Otieno, M.; Boreux, V.; Biddinger, D.J.; Klein, A.M.; Joshi, N.K.; Stewart, R.I.A.; Albrecht, M.; Nicholson, C.C.; O'Reilly, A.D.; Crowder, D.W.; Burns, K.L.W.; Nabaes Jodar, D.N.; Garibaldi, L.A.; Sutter, L.; Dupont, Y.L.; Dalsgaard, B.; Da Encarnação Coutinho, J.G.; Lázaro, A.; Andersson, G.K.S.; Raine, N.E.; Krishnan, S.; Dainese, M.; Van Der Werf, W.; Smith, H.G.; Magrach, A. (Web Ecology, 2023-10-14)Ecological intensification has been embraced with great interest by the academic sector but is still rarely taken up by farmers because monitoring the state of different ecological functions is not straightforward. Modelling ... -
Quantifying the role of saltmarsh as a vulnerable carbon sink: A case study from Northern Portugal
Cunha, J.; Cabecinha, E.; Villasante, S.; Gonçalves, J.A.; Balbi, S.; Elliott, M.; Ramos, S. (Science of the Total Environment, 2024-05-01)Saltmarshes play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and storage, although they are increasingly threatened by climate change-induced sea level rise (SLR). This study assessed the potential variation in Blue Carbon ... -
Scientific modelling can be accessible, interoperable and user friendly: A case study for pasture and livestock modelling in Spain
Torres, A.M.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F. (PLoS ONE, 2023)This article describes the adaptation of a non-spatial model of pastureland dynamics, including vegetation life cycle, livestock management and nitrogen cycle, for use in a spatially explicit and modular modelling platform ...