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Effects of forestry practices on the conservation of soil and forest ecosystem health and functioning: an umbrella review protocol
(OSF Preprints, 2022)
Background: Forests host a majority of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and provide habitats and numerous resources, making them a vitally important ecosystem for plants, animals and humans alike. However, forest ...
Sensitivities of heat-wave mortality projections: Moving towards stochastic model assumptions
(Environmental Research, 2022-03-01)
This paper analyses the probabilistic future behaviour of heat-waves (HWs) in the city of Madrid in the twenty-first century, using maximum daily temperatures from twenty-one climate circulation models under two representative ...
Added value of EURO-CORDEX downscaling over the complex orography region of the Pyrenees
(Climate Dynamics, 2024-01-01)
This study presents an assessment of the added value of downscaling utilizing Regional Climate Models (RCMs) compared to Global Climate Models (GCMs) in the high mountain region of the Pyrenees, characterized by complex ...
Who bears the risk? Incentives for renewable electricity under strategic interaction between regulator and investors
(Resource and Energy Economics, 2023-10-01)
Energy policies for promoting investment in renewable energy sources have become crucial for deploying green energy technologies worldwide. Conventional incentive systems assign risk to either policymakers or investors. ...
Predicting resilience through the lens of competing adjustments to vegetation function
(Plant Cell and Environment, 2022-09-01)
There is a pressing need to better understand ecosystem resilience to droughts and heatwaves. Eco-evolutionary optimization approaches have been proposed as means to build this understanding in land surface models and ...
Ecosystem CO<inf>2</inf> release driven by wind occurs in drylands at global scale
(Global Change Biology, 2022-09-01)
Subterranean ventilation is a non-diffusive transport process that provokes the abrupt transfer of CO2-rich air (previously stored) through water-free soil pores and cracks from the vadose zone to the atmosphere, under ...
COVID-19 recovery packages can benefit climate targets and clean energy jobs, but scale of impacts and optimal investment portfolios differ among major economies
(One Earth, 2022-09-16)
To meet the Paris temperature targets and recover from the effects of the pandemic, many countries have launched economic recovery plans, including specific elements to promote clean energy technologies and green jobs. ...
A policy content analysis for evaluating urban adaptation justice in İstanbul
(Environmental Science and Policy, 2022-10-01)
Climate change is disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities, increasing existing risks and leading to further global inequalities. Drawing on the concept of urban adaptation justice, we evaluated the inclusion ...
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico
(Ecological Economics, 2022-10-01)
Sustainable farming near tropical forests can buffer ecosystems at risk of biodiversity loss. In mountainous forest frontiers however, many smallholders raise cattle using practices that degrade land, also endangering ...
Short-haul flights ban in France: Relevant potential but yet modest effects of GHG emissions reduction
(Ecological Economics, 2024-10-01)
The French government has taken a new measure of limiting the exercise of traffic rights to reduce emissions, in particular, the bill to ban short-haul flights where a train alternative of 2:30 h or less exists. Here we ...