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Weak or Strong Sustainability in Rural Land Use Planning? Assessing Two Case Studies through Multi-Criteria Analysis
(MDPI, 2020-03-19)
This paper addresses the debate regarding weak versus strong sustainability in the field of rural land use planning. Both concepts correspond to opposing paradigms on sustainability and both their fundamentals of economic ...
New Insights into the Assessment of Protected Areas – Integrating Rural Development
(InTech, 2012-04-20)
It is argued that protected areas (PAs) assessment framework should emphasise two important properties which are often disregarded, namely integration and participation. The implementation of such a dual approach permits ...
Socioeconomic impacts of National Parks: a case study from the North-east of England
(INGEBA, 2010)
[EN] Enforcement of rural policy measures within National Parks may have a particular importance as they may contribute to reach socioeconomic objectives devised for such areas. So this paper approaches as case study the ...
To What Extent Are Cattle Ranching Landholders Willing to Restore Ecosystem Services? Constructing a Micro-Scale PES Scheme in Southern Costa Rica
(MDPI, 2021-07-05)
Deforestation and the unsustainable management of agricultural and livestock production systems in tropical mountain areas have caused fragmented and degraded landscapes. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) could be an ...
Evaluating governance and participatory processes in Natura 2000: lessons learned and guidance for future prospects
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
In recent years, participatory approaches have been incorporated in decision-making processes as a way to strengthen the bonds between diverse areas of knowledge and social actors in natural resources management and ...
Towards a participatory integrated assessment approach for planning and managing Natura 2000 network sites
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
Managing protected areas implies dealing with complex social-ecological systems where multiple dimensions (social, institutional, economic and ecological) interact over time for the delivery of ecosystem services. ...
Conflicting Values in Rural Planning: A Multifunctionality Approach through Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation
(MDPI, 2018-05)
The planning of rural land depends, to a large extent, on the agreed-upon agrarian and forestry development model. Within the framework of agrarian multifunctionality, to evaluate different development alternatives and ...
Valuing a Natura 2000 network site to inform land use options using a discrete choice experiment: An illustration from the Basque Country
(Elsevier, 2012)
One of the main problems that public institutions face in the management of protected areas, such as the European Natura 2000 network, is determining how to design and implement sustainable management plans that account ...
Social organisational LCA for the academic activity of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
(Springer, 2021-07-15)
Purpose This article aims to estimate the social footprint of a higher education institution (HEI) and its potential contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under life cycle assessment (LCA) perspective. The ...
The environmental and social footprint of the university of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
(Elsevier, 2021-09-15)
This work has calculated the organisational environmental and social footprint of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2016. First, input and output data flows of the UPV/EHU activity were collected. Next, the ...