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Global change effects on land management in the Mediterranean region
International audience; The Mediterranean region faces significant challenges to supply its growing population with food and living space. The region's potential to do so in the... -
An integrated modelling framework to assess long-term impacts of water manage...
Around the world many peatlands are managed unsustainably. Drainage of the peat causes soil subsidence and a range of negative societal impacts. Integrated strategies are... -
Middle-range theories of land system change
Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of... -
Allocating planetary boundaries to large economies : Distributional consequen...
The planetary boundaries (PBs) framework proposes global quantitative precautionary limits for human perturbation of nine critical Earth system processes. Together they define a... -
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The sustainable development agenda 2030 calls for achievement of certain targets to ensure access to water and sanitation for all. Multi-stakeholder partnerships and the use of... -
Global socio-economic impacts of changes in natural capital and ecosystem ser...
The year 2020 is a critical year for sustainable development policy and practice with the review and renewal of various international commitments including the Sustainable... -
Corrigendum to "Transparent and feasible uncertainty assessment adds value to...
The authors regret that the original article failed to accurately acknowledge funding sources to SESYNC, which were used to fund the workshop that motivated this special issue... -
The safe development paradox: An agent-based model for flood risk under clima...
With increasing flood risk due to climate change and socioeconomic trends, governments are under pressure to continue implementing flood protection measures, such as dikes, to... -
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet1. Social scientists both analyse why society courts disaster by... -
Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2°C scenarios with hist...
This paper systematically compares modeled rates of change provided by global integrated assessment models aiming for the 2. °C objective to historically observed rates of... -
Mapping ecosystem services' values
Mapping of ecosystem services' (ESS) values means valuing ESS in monetary terms across a relatively large geographical area and assessing how values vary across space. Thereby,... -
The influence of actor capacities on EIA system performance in low and middle...
Abstract In this paper, we aim to better understand the factors that contribute to the substantive performance of EIA systems in low and middle income countries. Substantive... -
Urban land-use change
To date land-change science has devoted little attention to spatial policy and planning in urban landscapes despite the widely accepted premise that planning affects urban land... -
Opportunities for sustainable intensification in European agriculture
Sustainable agricultural intensification is needed to tackle food insecurity and global environmental change. Local environmental conditions determine the needs and potentials... -
A web application to support the quantification and valuation of ecosystem se...
Assessing the impacts of policies on a wide range of ecosystem services can support the development of cost-effective policies that establish win-win situations across different... -
Future agricultural phosphorus demand according to the shared socioeconomic p...
Abstract A spatially explicit, two-pool soil phosphorus (P) model was used to analyze cropland P dynamics and fertilizer demand based on future crop production as projected in... -
Closing global knowledge gaps
Concerns over rapid widespread changes in social-ecological systems and their consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, food security, and human livelihoods are... -
Combining focus group discussions and choice experiments for economic valuati...
This study explores the benefits of combining results of qualitative focus group discussions (FGDs) with a quantitative choice experiment (CE) in a low-income country context.... -
Storylines for practice
A growing number of scientifc publications is available to promote sustainable river management. However, these publications target researchers rather than water management...
