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Simulating the Cascading Effects of an Extreme Agricultural Production Shock
Higher temperatures expected by midcentury increase the risk of shocks to crop production, while the interconnected nature of the current global food system functions to spread... -
Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study...
Despite a growing number of national-scale ecosystem service (ES) assessments, few studies consider the impacts of ES use and consumption beyond national or regional boundaries.... -
Phenotypic signatures of urbanization are scale-dependent: A multi-trait stud...
Abstract Understanding at which spatial scales anthropogenic selection pressures operate most strongly is a prerequisite for efficient conservation and management of urban... -
Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case stud...
Abstract Concerns over rapid widespread changes in social-ecological systems and their consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, food security, and human... -
‘Mind the Gap’ between ecosystem services classification and strategic decisi...
Ecosystem services (ES) are increasingly embedded in policy agendas, but if and how policy actors are considering them is not often reported. This study assesses the extent to... -
Modelling food security
Achieving food and nutrition security for all in a changing and globalized world remains a critical challenge of utmost importance. The development of solutions benefits from... -
A computational fluid dynamics study in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Heat waves and the related heat stress can increase human morbidity and mortality, decrease human productivity and increase building energy consumption for cooling. There is a... -
Austria's consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions can be addressed at the points of both production and consumption of goods and services. In a world of inhomogeneous climate policy, missing out... -
Avoiding or mitigating flooding: Bottom-up drivers of urban resilience to cli...
Abstract Coastal areas around the world are urbanizing rapidly, despite the threat of sea level rise and intensifying floods. Such development places an increasing number of... -
Evaluation of cultural ecosystem services : a review of methods
Abstract Cultural ecosystem services (CES) refer to the nonmaterial benefits people obtain from ecosystems, and they have direct influence on quality of life. Although the... -
Reducing global GHG emissions by replicating successful sector examples: the ...
This article shows the potential impact on global GHG emissions in 2030, if all countries were to implement sectoral climate policies similar to successful examples already... -
Experiment-based policy change over time
This study provides insight into the potential of experiment-based policy making to address complex environmental challenges. The investigation shows the usefulness of making an... -
A framework for valuing spatially targeted peatland restoration
Recent evidence suggests that the degree of degradation of peatlands is substantial, and that there is a significant potential to enhance the delivery of a wide range of... -
Integrated assessment of biomass supply and demand in climate change mitigati...
Abstract Biomass is often seen as a key component of future energy systems as it can be used for heat and electricity production, as a transport fuel, and a feedstock for... -
The roads ahead : Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing wor...
Long-term scenarios play an important role in research on global environmental change. The climate change research community is developing new scenarios integrating future... -
Down to Earth
The ‘Anthropocene’ is now being used as a conceptual frame by different communities and in a variety of contexts to understand the evolving human–environment relationship.... -
Comparing outdoor recreation preferences in peri-urban landscapes using diffe...
The growing demand for a variety of outdoor recreation pursuits in peri-urban areas evokes the need for effective landscape management strategies based on reliable information...
