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    Unpacking sustainabilities in diverse transition contexts: solar photovoltaic...

    It is generally accepted that the concept of sustainability is not straightforward, but is subject to on-going ambiguities, uncertainties and contestations. Yet literature on...
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    Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making

    Humans have changed most of the terrestrial surface by changing land-use and land-cover. The spatial distribution and extent of land-cover changes have been studied and mapped...
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    Benefits for multiple ecosystem services in Peruvian coffee agroforestry syst...

    Crop production often comes at the expense of losses in ecosystem services and biodiversity; however, this might not always be the case. Here we test the effects of shade...
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    From Planetary Boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operatin...

    Abstract The planetary boundaries framework proposes quantitative global limits to the anthropogenic perturbation of crucial Earth system processes, and thus marks out a...
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    Relative sea-level rise and the conterminous United States

    Global sea-level rise poses a significant threat not only for coastal communities as development continues but also for national economies. This paper presents estimates of how...
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    Recruitment of riparian plants after restoration of geomorphic complexity in ...

    Question: Restoration of channelized streams increases geomorphic complexity but it remains unclear how this interacts with processes that drive future vegetation changes...
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    The impact of greening schoolyards on the appreciation, and physical, cogniti...

    Greening schoolyards is an initiative to reconnect children with nature and afford meaningful experiences that foster children's well-being. To strengthen the empirical basis...
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    Towards more effective landscape governance for sustainability : the case of ...

    International audience; Over the last two decades, sustainable landscape approaches are increasingly being adopted worldwide. An important chal- lenge for these approaches is to...
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    Unpacking the nexus: Different spatial scales for water, food and energy

    Recent years have shown increased awareness that the use of the basic resources water, food, and energy are highly interconnected (referred to as a ‘nexus’). Spatial scales are...
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    Ecosystem services assessment tools for African Biosphere Reserves

    While the concept of ecosystem services which links biodiversity to human wellbeing, is by now well-known, its translation into actual management decisions is still uneven....
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    Theorising EIA effectiveness:A contribution based on the Danish system

    Considerable attention has been given to the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment (EIA) since the 1970s. Relatively few research studies, however, have approached...
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    Unpacking ecosystem service bundles

    Multiple ecosystem services (ES) can respond similarly to social and ecological factors to form bundles. Identifying key social-ecological variables and understanding how they...
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    Integrated assessment of international climate mitigation commitments outside...

    Abstract In the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), for the first time, non-state actors were addressed in the...
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    Amenity proximity analysis for sustainable brownfield redevelopment planning

    Abstract Idle brownfields in urban settings are potential resources that could be put to productive use, meeting the goals of urban intensification, helping to curb urban...