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L. Moreschi ; E. Gagliano ; M. Gallo ; A. Del Borghi |The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is the established framework to account for the three interlinked global security concerns of access to water, sustainable energy, and food security. Despite its outstanding relevance, a standardized methodology[...]Article
Mediterranean wetlands provide many ecosystem services to humans and other organisms. However, these services are being increasingly damaged. The prioritization of ecosystem services is essential to start a decision-making process focused on env[...]Article
F. Mohammadi Kashka ; Z. Tahmasebi Sarvestani ; H. Pirdashti ; A. Motevali ; M. Nadi ; M. Valipour |The increase in population has increased the need for agricultural and food products, and thus agricultural production should be increased. This goal may cause increases in emissions and environmental impacts by increasing the consumption of agr[...]Article
S. Aloui ; A. Mazzoni ; A. Elomri ; J. Aouissi ; A. Boufekane ; A. Zghibi |The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a well-established eco-hydrological model that has been extensively applied to watersheds across the globe. This work reviews over two decades (2002-2022) of SWAT studies conducted on Mediterranean wa[...]Ouvrage
R. Bentirou Mathlouthi, dir. ; A. Pomade, dir. ; S. Becerra, préf. | Paris [France] : L'Harmattan | Environnement | 2023L'expression « Vulnérabilité(s) environnementale(s) » renvoie à plusieurs situations de fragilité, de résilience et de précarité du vivant humain et du vivant non-humain, de l'individuel au collectif. Face à cette notion à géométrie variable, un[...]Article
S.E. McCord ; J.R. Brehm ; S.H. Burnett ; C. Dietrich ; B. Edwards ; L.J. Metz ; M. Hernandez Narvaez ; F. Pierson ; K.S. Ramirez ; N.G. Stauffer ; N.P. Webb ; C.E. Tweedie |Standard indicators and measurements are key to cross-scale agroecosystem assessments. While the need to standardize indicators is broadly recognized, inconsistencies in indicator calculations from common measurements may yield discrepancies in [...]Article
V. Assumma ; M. Bottero ; E. De Angelis ; J.M. Lourenço ; R. Monaco ; A.J. Soares |Today resilience paradigm is shared by both academic and political debates, and it is gradually being implemented into plans, programmes, and project's initiatives. In this context, wine regions, particularly those designated as UNESCO sites, sh[...]Article
Agroecosystems benefit from many ecosystem services and are frequently managed to increase productivity. In recent years, agricultural industrialization has caused the loss of some important ecosystem services in agroecosystems, hindering some s[...]Article
This article aimed to calculate and evaluate comparable environmental intensity indicators in the food production systems of European Union (EU) countries. The study uses the latest release of uniform input-output tables and greenhouse gas emiss[...]Article
The global food system is a key contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Companies can play an important role in reducing these emissions but doing so effectively requires accurate emissions data. This study assessed the status and[...]Article
Wetlands constitute important habitats that provide several ecosystem services (ES). Wetlands have been termed the kidneys of the world for their water purification services and contain 2025% of total soil organic carbon. This paper is a review[...]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
Ecosystem service cascade (ESC) links each component of ecosystem services with social value, building an interdisciplinary research bridge between natural science and social science, which can help decision-makers better integrate the concept o[...]Article
Assessing the spatial and temporal changes in ecosystems is essential to account for natural capital contribution to human well-being. However, various methods to quantify these changes challenge the development of reliable values which can be i[...]Article
L.V. De Luca Peña ; S.E. Taelman ; N. Préat ; L. Boone ; K. Van der Biest ; M. Custódio ; S. Hernandez Lucas ; G. Everaert ; J. Dewulf |Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Ecosystem Services Assessment ([...]Article
Q. Yang ; G. Liu ; M. Casazza ; S. Dumontet ; Z. Yang |Ecological restoration programs have significantly contributed to the improvement of ecosystem services in the past two decades. However, due to climate change and rapid land use change, planning and management of ecosystem services restoration [...]Article
V. Fantin ; A. Buscaroli ; P. Buttol ; E. Novelli ; C. Soldati ; D. Zannoni ; G. Zucchi ; S. Righi |Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays a fundamental role in soil health, and its storage in soil is an important element to mitigate climate change. How to include this factor in Life Cycle Assessment studies has been the object of several papers and [...]Ouvrage
Après lère du « progrès », place à lâge de la résilience. La Terre a été mise à mal par lactivité humaine au cours des derniers siècles et il est urgent de transformer notre rapport à notre environnement. Jeremy Rifkin, prospectiviste de reno[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A travers ce rapport, nous allons nous intéresser à la situation de la lagune de Thau, une zone atypique de la région méditerranéenne, et aux divers enjeux auxquels elle est confrontée. La conchyliculture dans létang de Thau représente une acti[...]Article
Ecosystem services can be defined as the ecosystems contribution to human activities. According to recent assessments, the agricultural sector is one of the most important economic users of ecosystem services in Europe. To assess, value, and ac[...]Article
Agricultural land is a very important ecosystem that provides a range of services like food, maintenance of soil structure, and hydrological services with high ecological value to human wellbeing Ecosystem Services (ESs). Understanding the contr[...]Ouvrage
Avec ses quantités effarantes de données à traiter, de terminaux à alimenter, de serveurs à refroidir et de réseaux à déployer, lintelligence artificelle est une source de pollution importante à lheure actuelle. Paradoxalement, la plupart des [...]Article
Measuring the environmental efficiency of firms using data envelopment analysis (DEA) has recently gained momentum due to the urgency of climate change. The existing literature on environmental efficiency ignores the internal structures of the p[...]Article
Machine learning (ML) expands traditional data analysis and presents a range of opportunities in ecosystem service (ES) research, offering rapid processing of ?big data? and enabling significant advances in data description and predictive modell[...]Article
This paper aims to determine and classify the land cover and assess the impact of agriculture expansion on the land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in El-Beheira Governorate, Egypt. To achieve these ob[...]Article
J.-P. Metzger ; J. Villarreal-Rosas ; A.F. Suárez-Castro ; S. López-Cubillos ; A. González-Chaves ; R.K. Runting ; C. Hohlenwerger ; J.R. Rhodes |The provision of ecosystem services is inherently spatial. Landscape structure affects service provision through multiple landscape-level processes, such as fragmentation, edge and connectivity effects. These processes can affect areas of ecosys[...]Article
Agriculture has become an essential sector in the economic growth of developing countries. Although food production at a large scale is the primary purpose, the residues are in some cases not fully exploited, representing environmental problems.[...]Article
Every year, after grape harvesting, high quantities of vine-canes are generated. Due to the high amount of bioactive compounds present in this woody material, several studies reported their potential to be used in different sustainable applicati[...]Article
Enhancing social and economic development while preserving nature is one of the most significant challenges for humankind in the current century [...]Article
Dans cet article, nous traitons de lévolution des approches liant santé, environnement et écosystèmes, en partant dune vision fixiste de lenvironnement pour aller vers une vision dynamique de celui-ci. Les changements globaux en cours nécessi[...]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
A. Gemitzi ; A. Gemitzi ; R. Albarakat ; F. Kratouna ; V. Lakshmi |Evaluation of carbon sequestration in various land cover types is a valuable tool for environmental policies targeting towards minimization of CO2 emissions and climate change impacts. For the past few decades, remotely sensed information on lan[...]Article
D. D'Ammaro ; E. Capri ; F. Valentino ; S. Grillo ; E. Fiorini ; L. Lamastra |The interest in sustainability, within the wine sector, is growing simultaneously with the awareness of the environmental impacts on climate change generated by the sector itself. In this context, environmental methodologies need to be applied: [...]Article
Many assessments of ecosystem services (ESs; nature's contribution to people [...]Article
Le lexique économique employé pour désigner des composantes de la nature est souvent accusé de biaiser nos représentations et nos modes de gestion de lenvironnement. Contribuant au processus de commodification de la nature, il aurait même sa pa[...]Article
N. Borghino ; M. Corson ; L. Nitschelm ; A. Wilfart ; J. Fleuet ; M. Moraine ; T.A. Breland ; P. Lescoat ; O. Godinot |Territorial Life Cycle Assessment (TLCA) appears a promising method to support informed decision making of local actors in territorial agricultural production systems (TAPS), by assessing environmental impacts of agricultural activities and pote[...]Article
This commentary considers the challenges and trade-offs in using blockchain as the facilitating digital infrastructure for degrowth projects. A blockchain is simply a distributed database. The technology is being used for a wide range of applica[...]Article
The ecological footprint (EF) is an important tool for assessing ecological resource occupancy. The three-dimensional (3D) EF changes the EF from a plane to a column, and the bottom (EFsize) represents the human appropriation of the annual natur[...]Article
Ecosystem services and human well-being have received increasing scientific interest owing to their importance in influencing sustainability. Yet, quantitative and visual analyses of the scientific literature on ecosystem services and human well[...]Article
The production of olive oil generates a huge amount of residues which must be adequately handled, which currently represents both an economic cost and an environmental concern. A possible solution which is under study is the use of such residues[...]Article
Over the past few years, the capability approach (CA) has been increasingly recognized as a promising foundation of sustainable development despite the persistent critiques of its deliberative democracy concept. This paper theoretically and empi[...]Article
M.M. Sy ; H. Rey-Valette ; C. Figuières ; M. Simier ; R. De Wit |Preferences elicitation can be a challenging exercise for citizens participating in assessment surveys. It is even more challenging when it comes to complex and unfamiliar ecosystems and the threatened ecosystem services they provide. Making peo[...]Article
M. Longo ; N. Dal Ferro ; B. Lazzaro ; F. Morari |Agri-environmental measures (AEMs) are meant to foster environmentally-friendly farming techniques. The use of AEMs to enhance agroecosystem quality is still under debate due to site-specific spatial mismatches that often occur between adopted A[...]Article
As the core of civilian production and an indispensable part of the national economy, the agricultural industry plays a role in many aspects, but it also generates a large amount of carbon emissions that are harmful to the environment. A game mo[...]Article
A. Salhi ; S. Benabdelouahab ; E.O. Bouayad ; T. Benabdelouahab ; I. Larifi ; M. El Mousaoui ; N. Acharrat ; M. Himi ; A. Casas Ponsati |In coastal watersheds, services and landuse favour coastal tourism and urbanization, depriving rural upstream of infrastructure and attention. This unbalanced management leads to an intensification of socioeconomic changes that generate a struct[...]Article
Life cycle assessment of the Spanish virgin olive oil production: a case study for Andalusian region
Spain is the first olive oil producer worldwide (representing around 45%), with more than 80% of its agricultural area dedicated to this crop. The goal of this study is to assess the environmental impact of the Spanish virgin olive oil productio[...]Article
Tourism activities are considered, among others, the backbone of the local economies. However, tourism activities lead to adverse environmental impacts, especially in coastal zones. Coastal areas are considered and recognized as of strategic imp[...]Article
G. Gabbi ; M. Matthias ; N. Patrizi ; F.M. Pulselli ; S. Bastianoni |The environment may constrain economic growth potential. In other words, economic growth cannot be pursued in spite of ecological limits any longer. Here we present an economic growth indicator adjusted by taking into account the current tendenc[...]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[...]Article
H. Zeng ; H. Zeng ; B. Wu ; M. Zhang ; N. Zhang ; A. Elnashar ; L. Zhu ; W. Zhu ; F. Wu ; N. Yan ; W. Liu |This review describes the latest progress of dryland ecosystem dynamic change in the Mediterranean region. Recent findings indicate that extent of dryland in the Mediterranean region has been expanding in the past decades and will continue to ex[...]Article
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G. Sneegas ; S. Beckner ; C. Brannstrom ; W. Jepson ; K. Lee ; L. Seghezzo |Q-methodology is a mixed qualitative-quantitative method used to measure social perspectives on issues relating to sustainability and environmental governance in a systematic, replicable manner. Although its use grown over the past two decades, [...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
Leau, lénergie et lalimentation constituent les trois commodités essentielles pour le fonctionnement de toute économie. Depuis un certain nombre dannées, leurs ressources ne cessent de se raréfier ou de se dégrader avec des degrés différents[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
K. Baldwin ; F. Casalini | Paris [France] : OCDE | OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers | 2021Increasingly frequent and severe droughts are threatening Italys agricultural sector. With climate change forecast to accelerate these trends, the sector must build long-term resilience. This will require better planning and preparing for, abso[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
M. Bagherzadeh ; M. Shigemitsu | Paris [France] : OCDE | OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers | 2021Turkey is exposed to multiple natural hazard-induced disasters (NHID) and has considerable experience in managing the associated risks. Drought, in particular, has had significant impacts on the countrys agricultural sector, and the frequency o[...]Article
Economic valuation has been presented as an important tool for enhancing the consideration of ecosystem services (ES) in decision-making. Recent literature provides evidence that an implementation gap between theoretical findings, consideration [...]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
B. Czúcz ; R. Haines-Young ; M. Kiss ; K. Bereczki ; M. Kertész ; Á. Vári ; M. Potschin-Young ; I. Arany |As the mapping and assessment of ecosystem services (MAES) becomes a widely used tool in environmental governance, there is an increasing need for structure and standardization. In this study we present a systematic review of European MAES studi[...]Article
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Ecosystem services (ES) assessment has become a widely recognized analytical framework for addressing socio-ecological interactions within and across different biomes. The services provided by nature are crucial for life on earth and affect dire[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
W. Cramer, ed. ; J. Guiot, ed. ; K. Marini, ed. ; MedECC (Marseille, France) | Marseille [France] : Union for the Mediterranean, Plan Bleu, UNEP/MAP | 2020The First Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) prepared by the independent network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) founded in 2015 is now finished. MedECC assesses the best available scientific knowledge o[...]Article
Investigations have been carried out by a research group at Kassel University aimed at adapting the auto-regulative potential of the old clay pot (pitcher) irrigation system to modern and up-to-date irrigated agriculture. Within the frame of sev[...]Article
La lutte contre le gaspillage ou lévitement de la production de déchets ne fait pas partie des politiques publiques de gestion des déchets dans les pays du Sud. Cependant, les chiffres de production de déchets par habitant indiquent des quantit[...]Ouvrage
C. Mougin, coord. ; F. Douay, coord. ; M. Canavese, coord. ; T. Lebeau, coord. ; E. Rémy, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Matière à Débattre et Décider | 2020Nous le savons, le jardinage collectif au sein des villes se développe. Or, paradoxalement, les potentialités agronomiques des sols urbains ou péri-urbains, ainsi que leurs propriétés physico-chimiques, sont encore largement inconnues. La locali[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
The SoED provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of environment and development interactions in the Mediterranean region. The 2020 version consists of eight thematic chapters and is complemented by two summary papers: Summary for Deci[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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C. Roddier-Quefelec ; C. Spiteri ; J. Veiga ; M. Assouline, collab. ; I. Bakas, collab. ; I. Del Barrio, collab. ; A. Reichel, collab. ; P. Kristensen, collab. ; M. Peterlin, collab. ; K. Schotten, collab. ; C. Whalley, collab. ; B. Zeiger, collab. ; S. Vergouwen, collab. ; L. Meszaros, collab. ; S. Wanke, collab. ; S. Nait, collab. ; C. Bodouroglou, collab. ; E. Cavus, collab. ; C. Ioakeimidis, collab. ; M. Kayyal, collab. ; D. Tsotsos, collab. ; E. Lemaitre-Curri, collab. ; J.-P. Giraud, collab. ; L. Tode, collab. ; E. Bigagli, collab. ; M. Boughedaoui, collab. ; O. Guven, collab. ; B. Kreitem, collab. ; C. Cipolini, collab. ; A. Lotti, collab. ; C. Ndong, collab. ; M. Outters, collab. | Luxembourg [Luxembourg] : Office des Publications Officielles de l'Union Européenne | 2020Nearly 15 years after the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Horizon 2020 initiative, we take stock of the progress achieved towards a cleaner Mediterranean, against the backdrop of the socio‑economic, geopolitical and structu[...]Article
A. Merino-Saum ; J. Clément ; R. Wyss ; M.G. Baldi |Over the past ten years, the Green Economy (GE) concept has gained momentum in both academia and policy-making arenas, leading to international programs in diverse sectors and driving national agendas all over the world. The concept is however h[...]Ouvrage
C. Bedos, coord. ; S. Génermont, coord. ; J.-F. Castell, coord. ; P. Cellier, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Synthèses | 2019Lagriculture, via la conduite des cultures et de lélevage, est source de polluants atmosphériques : ammoniac, produits phytopharmaceutiques, oxydes dazote, composés organiques volatils biogéniques, particules primaires et secondaires Elle es[...]Série
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C. Amblard, dir. ; A. Diemer, dir. ; Association GREFFE (Mirefleurs, France) ; M. Dufumier, préf. | Clermont-Ferrand [France] : Oeconomia | 2019Le constat est accablant et les prévisions sont alarmantes. Depuis quelques décennies, nous sommes entrés dans l'anthropocène, une nouvelle ère de l'histoire de la terre qui résulte du fait que ce sont les activités humaines qui constituent main[...]Ouvrage
G. Carrère, dir. ; C. Dumat, dir. ; M.-C. Zelem, dir. ; D. Bourg, préf. | Paris [France] : L'Harmattan | Sociologies et Environnement, ISSN 1627-7406 | 2019Cet ouvrage explore et propose des analyses de processus parfois compliqués qui affectent les métiers et le gouvernement des collectifs. De quelle manière l'environnement bouscule-t-il les collectifs humains ? Comment certaines professions (agri[...]Article
Parmi les options régulièrement mises en avant, le modèle de léconomie circulaire suscite une attention croissante. Système économique déchange et de production qui, à tous les stades du cycle de vie des produits, vise à augmenter lefficacité[...]Série
N. Saab, ed. ; A. Badran, ed. ; A.-K. Sadik, ed. | Beyrouth [Liban] : Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) | Arab Environment | 2019Environmental Education for Sustainable Development in Arab Countries is the topic of the 2019 annual report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED). It provides the first comprehensive survey of environmental contents in sch[...]Ouvrage
T. Garancher ; M. Nicolas ; P. Pessoa | Paris [France] : Le Moniteur | Pratique du Droit, ISSN 2267-0149 | 2019L'évaluation environnementale permet d'apprécier et de mesurer les conséquences d'un projet, plan ou programme sur l'environnement pour tenter d'en limiter, atténuer ou compenser les impacts. Elle a pour objectif d'éclairer à la fois le porteur [...]Article
Several scientific reports on climate change that have come to light recently have alerted us to the terrible state of terrestrial ecosystems, as well as the drastic solutions needed and that will require unprecedented efforts. The rising global[...]Article
En Algérie, le programme dindustrialisation après l'Indépendance, la forte croissance démographique, la littoralisation du Nord et le chômage aggravé par le programme dajustement structurel ont eu raison de la qualité de lenvironnement autant[...]Ouvrage
Peut-on mesurer la durabilité écologique dune nation de manière claire et synthétique ? Est-il possible, à linstar du PIB, de résumer une réalité aussi complexe en un seul chiffre ? Cest pour répondre à ces questions que lempreinte écologiqu[...]Série
N. Saab, ed. ; A.-K. Sadik, ed. | Beyrouth [Liban] : Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) | Arab Environment | 2018Financing Sustainable Development in Arab Countries is the topic of the 2018 Annual report of Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED). It identifies financing needs, gaps, options and mechanisms, while focusing on sources and addres[...]Ouvrage
O. Jolliet ; M. Saadé-Sbeih ; P. Crettaz ; N. Jolliet-Gavin ; S. Shaked ; G. Soucy ; G. Houillon | Lausanne [Suisse] : Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes | Science et Ingénierie de l'Environnement | 2017Lanalyse du cycle de vie (ACV) ou écobilan évalue limpact environnemental dun produit, dun service ou dun système en considérant toutes les étapes de son cycle de vie. Elle permet didentifier les points sur lesquels un produit peut êtr[...]Série
N. Saab, ed. | Beyrouth [Liban] : Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) | Arab Environment | 2017ARAB ENVIRONMENT IN 10 YEARS crowns a decade of the series of annual reports produced by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) on the state of Arab environment. It tracks and analyzes changes focusing on policies and governance, [...]