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Using Exploratory Scenarios in Planning Practice
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Despite growing interest by practitioners in using exploratory scenarios within urban planning practice, there are few detailed... -
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic...
Densely populated floodplains downstream of Asia’s mountain ranges depend heavily on mountain water resources, in particular for irrigation. An intensive and complex... -
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... -
From principles to practice in paying for nature's services
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) constitute an innovative economic intervention to counteract the global loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. In theory, some... -
Understanding the role of illicit transactions in land-change dynamics
Anthropogenic land use has irrevocably transformed the natural systems on which humankind relies. Advances in remote sensing have led to an improved understanding of where, why... -
Changes in crop rotations would impact food production in an organically farm...
The debate about organic farming productivity has often focused on its relative crop yields compared with conventional farming. However, conversion to organic farming not only... -
Water sustainability and watershed storage
The paired watershed approach is the most popular tool for quantifying the effects of forest watershed management on water sustainability. But this approach does not often... -
Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects
The expansion of reservoirs to cope with droughts and water shortages is hotly debated in many places around the world. We argue that there are two counterintuitive dynamics... -
Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control
International audience; Ecological intensification of agro-ecosystems, based on the optimization of ecological functions such as biological pest control, to replace agrochemical... -
Sustainability in global agriculture driven by organic farming
Agricultural practices need to change to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. How to achieve the SDGs is heavily contested. Here we propose a policy... -
The water footprint of water conservation using shade balls in California
The interest in quick technologic fixes to complex water problems increases during extreme hydroclimatic events. However, past evidence shows that such fixes might be associated...
