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7.1 - Généralités. Situation Environnementale |
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Enhancing social and economic development while preserving nature is one of the most significant challenges for humankind in the current century [...]Article
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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
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
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
Many assessments of ecosystem services (ESs; nature's contribution to people [...]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
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 [...]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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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, [...]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
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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
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[...]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[...]