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Depopulation is a major challenge for many rural inland areas, as is the case in a considerable number of rural municipalities in Galicia (north-western Spain). The pandemic had a considerable impact on internal migration in 2020, but it was far[...]Article
CONTEXT Ongoing decreases in family farms and livestock numbers in European mountain areas are linked to multiple interconnected challenges. The continuity of such farms concerns society at large since they also act as landscape stewards, and th[...]Article
Recent research established a link between environmental alterations due to agriculture intensification, social damage and the loss of economic growth. Thus, the integration of environmental and social dimensions is key for economic development.[...]Article
One important issue faced by wheat producers is temporal and spatial yield variation management at a within-field scale. Vegetation indices derived from remote-sensing platforms, such as Landsat, can provide vital information characterising this[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
M. Requier-Desjardins ; L. Chazée ; W. Khechimi ; S. Anougmar ; M. Garrabé | 2022Article
Increasing the levels of ecosystem services that contribute to agricultural production (ES) is a challenge for the sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural advisors lack low-data operational approaches for assessing ES and knowledge [...]Article
The demand for food based on intensive agriculture has decreased soil quality, posing great challenges such as increasing agricultural productivity and promoting environmental sustainability. Thus, researchers have focused on developing models f[...]Article
E.P. Andrade ; A. Bonmati ; L.J. Esteller ; S. Brunn ; L.S. Jensen ; E. Meers ; A. Anton |The adverse effects of agriculture and livestock production on the environment are well-known and require mitigation in order to achieve sustainability in the food production chain. This study focused on adverse effects related to biogeochemical[...]Série
FAO (Rome, Italie) | Rome [Italie] : FAO | La Situation Mondiale de l'Alimentation et de l'Agriculture, ISSN 0251-1460 | 2022La pandémie de covid-19 a fait apparaître au grand jour la vulnérabilité des systèmes agroalimentaires face aux chocs et aux situations de stress et entraîné une augmentation de linsécurité alimentaire et de la malnutrition au niveau mondial. D[...]Article
S. Poponi ; G. Arcese ; F. Pacchera ; O. Martucci |The agri-food sector is one of the key sectors where the action is needed to ensure the transition to a more sustainable development model in line with the principles of the circular economy (CE). The use of indicators to monitor progress and ar[...]Ouvrage
Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact: Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers trending topics on the environmental impact of systems of production, putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This me[...]Article
Cette recherche cible lélaboration dun indicateur multicritère des services écosystémiques culturels (SEC) des zones humides méditerranéennes protégées. Basé sur les perceptions sociales des visiteurs, il vise la mesure de limpact de la visit[...]Article
Agriculture can be a possible provider of social services of relevant importance for the whole society. In order to generate a valuable social service, a multi-actor approach is often applied, based on an active collaboration among public instit[...]Article
B. Czúcz ; H. Keith ; J. Maes ; A. Driver ; B. Jackson ; E. Nicholson ; M. Kiss ; C. Obst |The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their condition, and the services they provide to society. Recording the condition of eco[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
CONTEXT. The European Commission defines Green Public Procurement (GPP) as a process whereby public authorities seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle when compared to goods, se[...]Article
The Ecological Value (EV) term has been spread in the literature since 1860; however, there is no consensus on its definition and the criteria for its assessment. To identify, assess and summarize the main definitions, criteria, indicators and[...]Article
I. Mouratiadou ; I. Mouratiadou ; C. Latka ; F. van der Hilst ; C. Müller ; R. Berges ; B.L. Bodirsky ; F. Ewert ; B. Faye ; T. Heckelei ; M. Hoffmann ; H. Lehtonen ; I.J. Lorite ; C. Nendel ; T. Palosuo ; A. Rodriguez ; R.P. Rötter ; M. Ruiz-Ramos ; T. Stella ; H. Webber ; B. Wicke |Sustainable intensification (SI) of agriculture is a promising strategy for boosting the capacity of the agricultural sector to meet the growing demands for food and non-food products and services in a sustainable manner. Assessing and quantifyi[...]Article
M. Juigner ; M. Robin ; M. Audère ; P. Fattal ; B. Hervy ; R. Kerguillec ; J.-B. Suzanne ; S. Costa ; M. Lopin ; O. Maquaire ; M. Medjkane ; J. Pagny ; A. Thulie |Les côtes basses sableuses sont des espaces contraints et sensibles aux aléas côtiers. Limplantation des activités humaines à proximité du bord de mer fait de ces espaces des territoires du risque. Lidentification des territoires exposés au re[...]Article
R. Panchal ; A. Singh ; H. Diwan |The paper provides a systematic literature review to investigate whether circular economy (CE) performance in the technical cycle will contribute to the sustainable development. Two academic databases, namely Scopus and Web of Science were used [...]Article
Much information on the food security status of countries has become increasingly available in recent years. However, alternative measures, especially with large variation, can affect policy design and delivery to alleviate food insecurity. This[...]Article
The application of true cost accounting (TCA) at farm level requires a common framework and metric for measuring, capturing and valuing sustainability. We propose such a framework and farm metric that build on the four capitalsnatural, social, [...]Article
R. Matacena ; M. Zenga ; M. D'Addario ; S. Mari ; M. Labra |The COVID-19 emergency and the consequent social distancing requirements have caused major disruptions in daily food-related practices at the household level. In this paper, we evaluate the transformations that occurred in the daily nutritional [...]Article
In recent decades, many sustainability indicators and methods have been developed at farm level, but a validated set of quantitative and scientifically-sound indicators covering all three dimensions of sustainability is still needed. For this re[...]Article
Promoting sustainable agricultural systems, maintaining biodiversity, and establishing measures to counteract climate change are the clear objectives of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); however, there is still uncertainty regarding i[...]Article
C.J. Brown ; M.F. Adame ; C.A. Buelow ; M.A. Frassl ; S.Y. Lee ; B. Mackey ; E.C. McClure ; R.M. Pearson ; A. Rajkaran ; T.S. Rayner ; M. Sievers ; C.A. Saint Ange ; A.I. Sousa ; V.J.D. Tulloch ; M.P. Turschwell ; R.M. Connolly |Vegetated coastal wetlands, including seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves, are threatened globally, yet the need to avert these losses is poorly recognized in international policy, such as in the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United N[...]Article
K.V. Varotsos ; A. Karali ; G. Lemesios ; G. Kitsara ; M. Moriondo ; C. Dibari ; L. Leolini ; C. Giannakopoulos |The paper presents the analysis of a sub-set of high-resolution bias-adjusted simulations from the EURO-CORDEX initiative, in order to examine the changes in the mean climate and the extremes in three Mediterranean islands, namely, Sicily, Crete[...]Article
L. Rocchi ; L. Paolotti ; C. Cortina ; F.F. Fagioli ; A. Boggia |The transition from a linear to a circular economy is a research trend topic, as well as the possibility to measure the degree of circularity of products and systems. In a linear economy, raw materials are taken from nature and transformed into [...]Article
K.S. Nelson ; T.D. Nguyen ; N.A. Brownstein ; D. Garcia ; H.C. Walker ; J.T. Watson ; A. Xin |Definitions and measures of rurality are important to researchers and policymakers as they have implications for policy and practice. By conducting a systematic review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which rurality ha[...]Article
L. Casini ; F. Boncinelli ; F. Gerini ; C. Romano ; G. Scozzafava ; C. Contini |Promoting the viability of rural areas is a major objective of the European development and agricultural policies. One of the key aspects for the success of these policies is represented by the possibility to monitor the quality of life in all o[...]Article
To describe and measure the apparent pressures humanity poses to functioning of the crucial Earth systems, scientists have long strived to develop comprehensive indicators, of which environmental footprints are probably the most popularly recogn[...]