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The global environmental agenda urgently needs a semantic web of knowledge
(Environmental Evidence, 2022)
Progress in key social-ecological challenges of the global environmental agenda (e.g., climate change, biodiversity conservation, Sustainable Development Goals) is hampered by a lack of integration and synthesis of existing ...
Storage and demand response contribution to firm capacity: Analysis of the Spanish electricity system
(Energy Reports, 2022)
Provision of firm capacity will become a challenge in power systems dominated by renewable generation. This paper analyzes the competitiveness and role of battery storage, six types of pumped-hydro storage, open cycle gas ...
Determining the economic costs and benefits of conservation actions: A decision support framework
(Conservation Science and Practice, 2022)
The need for conservation action to be cost-effective is widely accepted, resulting in increased interest and effort to assess effectiveness. Assessing the financial and economic costs of conservation is equally important ...
“We are the Green Capital”: Navigating the political and sustainability fix narratives of urban greening
(Cities, 2022)
With increasing attention on green(ing) cities, urban nature is used to increase liveability, to create new sectors such as tourism, and to boost international investment. What counts as desirable green intervention generally ...
Climate adaptation indicators and metrics: State of local policy practice
(Ecological Indicators, 2022)
Recent systematic reviews show that, overall, and across governance levels and sectors, climate change adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are rarely programmed and implemented. As a result, there is a ...
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production
(Communications Earth and Environment, 2022)
Agricultural production has replaced natural ecosystems across the planet, becoming a major driver of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and freshwater consumption. Here we combined global crop yield and environmental ...
Analysis of dominant classes in universal adversarial perturbations
(Elsevier, 2022-01)
The reasons why Deep Neural Networks are susceptible to being fooled by adversarial examples remains an open discussion. Indeed, many different strategies can be employed to efficiently generate adversarial attacks, some ...
Wildness and habitat quality drive spatial patterns of urban biodiversity
(Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022)
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) are key for biodiversity conservation. Many studies focus on UGBS benefits for well-being, but how UGBS ecological and quality influence urban biodiversity is still poorly understood. We ...
Cantera Gorria and Red Ereño: Natural and Cultural Geoheritage (Basque Country, Spain)
(Springer, 2022)
[EN] Construction and ornamental stones are important elements of cultural heritage and geoheritage. The quarries, where these materials are extracted, are a type of site that combines these two types of heritage. Both the ...
Development of non-destructive analytical strategies based on Raman spectroscopy and complementary techniques for Mars Sample Return tested on Northwest Africa 1950 Martian meteorite
(Wiley, 2022-12)
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) is a near future mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to the Earth. The field operations to carry out data collection, selection of the samples, and sampling procedure, mainly ...