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This work proposes a holistic landscape assessment methodology, with novel and practical tools, which can support sustainable landscape development for small islands. The Greek island of Gavdos is the case study. An Islandscape character assessm[...]
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Vulnerability, resilience, robustness and adaptive capacity are four key concepts that characterize dynamics of systems when disturbance occurs. However, rendering them operational for agricultural systems using an approach to quantify dynamics [...]
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S. Renner ; J. Sauer ; N. El Benni |A split-panel latent class stochastic frontier model is applied to account for technological heterogeneity among Swiss dairy farms and to assess the potential performance improvements through technology choice and change over 11 years. Three tec[...]
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V. Assumma ; M. Bottero ; E. De Angelis ; J.M. Lourenço ; R. Monaco ; A.J. Soares |This paper aims to assess the territorial resilience of a socio-ecological system through an innovative integrated evaluation framework to aid the decision-making process in the planning of transformation scenarios. This framework employs a set [...]
Thèse, Mémoire, Master
K. Amrani | 2021Cette thèse porte sur l'évaluation de la durabilité des agrosystèmes oasiens algériens. Un cas d'étude concerne l'oasis de Ouargla située dans le Bas-Sahara à quelque 850 km au Sud-Est de la capitale, Alger. Le choix du site renvoie à une premiè[...]
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M. Behnassi, ed. ; M.B. Baig, ed. ; M. El Haiba, ed. ; M.R. Reed, ed. | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | 2021This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land an[...]
Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
G. Gruère ; M. Shigemitsu | Paris [France] : OCDE | OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers | 2021Measuring policy progress on agriculture and water policies is essential to help decision makers identify necessary policy changes and understand how further progress may be achieved to improve agricultural water management. A thorough review of[...]
Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
D. Bougherara ; L. Ibanez ; M. Lapierre ; G. Le Velly ; R. Préget ; A. Sauquet ; S. Thoyer | Montpellier [France] : Centre d’Economie de l’Environnement | 2021Ce guide s’adresse prioritairement aux acteurs de terrain concernés par l’accompagnement des agriculteurs individuels et des collectifs d’agriculteurs vers des modèles agricoles économes en intrants et respectueux de l’environnement, notamment d[...]
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Landscape character assessment (LCA) methods have been used in the past few decades to analyze, classify, and map landscape types, using objective and subjective approaches, with the aid of both quantitative and qualitative data. This paper addr[...]
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Distribution of agricultural products from the aspect of farms is a continuous issue. Efficient application of the distribution model should provide a farm owner with regular income, as well as with a competitive advantage. Assessment of distrib[...]
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Land fragmentation is one of the key factors of agricultural production profitability. One way to objectively assess the phenomenon is to represent it as several specific land fragmentation indices. Nevertheless, similar land fragmentation index[...]
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It is now widely recognised that components of the environment play the role of economic assets, termed natural capital, that are a foundation of social and economic development. National governments monitor the state and trends of natural capit[...]
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Y. Tramblay ; A. Koutroulis ; L. Samaniego ; S.M. Vicente-Serrano ; F. Volaire ; A. Boone ; M. Le Page ; M.C. Llasat ; C. Albergel ; S. Burak ; M. Cailleret ; K.C. Kalin ; H. Davi ; J.-L. Dupuy ; P. Greve ; M. Grillakis ; L. Hanich ; L. Jarlan ; N. Martin-StPaul ; J. Martínez-Vilalta ; F. Mouillot ; D. Pulido-Velazquez ; P. Quintana-Seguí ; D. Renard ; M. Turco ; M. Türkes ; R. Trigo ; J.-P. Vidal ; A. Vilagrosa ; M. Zribi ; J. Polcher |Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas in which irrigation plays an important role and in which na[...]
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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[...]
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Considering the existing world population, set of environmental impacts, and predicted changes in dietary trends, one can expect that, in the coming decades, food security will remain high on the list of sustainability concerns. In relation to t[...]
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As a result of the growing awareness of the need to prevent food waste, several initiatives have been launched in the last few years to reduce food waste generated across the food supply chain. However, the evaluation of food waste prevention in[...]
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Effective designation of Protected Areas (PAs) requires the careful consideration of their social impacts as these are perceived by people. These refer to a variety of issues such as the distribution of power, social equity, social relations and[...]
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D. Hirschfeld ; K.E. Hill ; B. Riordan |Climate changes and associated impacts are placing pressure on institutions and the professionals working within them to become proactive and to plan for more extreme impacts in distant futures. Despite a growing recognition of the need for clim[...]
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A. La Notte ; J. Maes ; S. Vallecillo |Ecosystems deliver value to people and the economy through ecosystem services. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has quantified the use of ecosystem services by the main economic sectors and households at EU level. In this pap[...]
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Agricultural production systems are sensitive to weather and climate anomalies and extremes as well as to other environmental and socio-economic adverse events. An adequate evaluation of the resilience of such systems helps to assess food securi[...]
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The last few years have seen an exponential development of urban agriculture projects within global North countries, especially professional intra-urban farms which are professional forms of agriculture located within densely settled areas of ci[...]
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Guidelines are needed to support research and action on sustainable transitions towards more resilient and adaptable agroecosystems. Here I present an operationable and simple framework with theoretical underpinning to assess to what extent agro[...]
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B. Sastre ; B. Álvarez ; O. Antón ; M.A. Pérez ; M.J. Marques ; R. Bienes ; A. García-Díaz |Olive groves on the Mediterranean Basin are usually managed by continuous tillage and low organic matter inputs, leading to several soil degradation processes. Groundcovers (GCs) have come out as an alternative soil management strategy to improv[...]
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A variety of indicator-based methods have been developed for the sustainability assessment of farming systems (FSs). However, many of them lack holisticity, focus on a specific agricultural sector/product, and do not provide aggregated results t[...]
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The paper aims to investigate short sea shipping services as a competitive, sustainable freight transport system which is able to respond to economic, social and environmental needs. An assessment methodology is proposed which considers an aggre[...]
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I. Coteur ; H. Wustenberghs ; L. Debruyne ; L. Lauwers ; F. Marchand |A multitude of farm-level sustainability assessment tools (SATs) exists, reflecting a variety of agricultural practices and sustainability perceptions. Tools differ and insight is lacking about how they match with farmers' needs. This paper exam[...]
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The Sustainable Society Index (SSI) is known as a comprehensive index that contains substantive aspects of all three dimensions of sustainable development (SD): social, environmental, and economic. This paper assesses the reliability (internal c[...]
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The Mediterranean Basin is at the same time a region of stark social and ecological contrasts and a global biodiversity hotspot, where complex local evolving land use and land cover patterns compose the region’s landscapes. In this context, we a[...]
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V. Arulnathan ; M.D. Heidari ; M. Doyon ; E. Li ; N. Pelletier |In response to the recognized importance of agri-food systems for sustainable development, a variety of sustainability assessment methods for agri-food production have been developed. These sustainability assessment methods vary in their scope, [...]
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The biodiversity of agricultural landscapes is strongly dependent on extensive traditional management practices and the proportion of natural and semi-natural habitats within the landscape. Within Europe, contemporary agricultural management pra[...]
