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    frameworks, challenges and gaps

    Integrated Environmental Models (IEMs) incorporating ecosystem services (ES) can be useful tools to support the decision-making. However, their successful application strongly...
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    The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance

    Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular...
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    Domestic Institutions and Global Value Chains: Offshoring in Germany's Core I...

    Do domestic institutions affect industrialised countries’ positions in global value chains? A key insight from literature on global value chains is that a firm's decision to...
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    Vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change in Central America and...

    As governments are becoming aware of the potential impacts of climate change on agriculture many are developing adaptation policies targeting smallholder farmers. However, in...
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    Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the IMAGE model: Regional and gridded s...

    Abstract Projected increases in population, income and consumption rates are expected to lead to rising pressure on the land system. Ambitions to limit global warming to 2 °C...
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    The demographics of decarbonizing transport: The influence of gender, educati...

    Abstract Many researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders have explored and supported efforts to transition towards more sustainable forms of low-carbon mobility. Often,...
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    Analysis of biophysical and anthropogenic variables and their relation to the...

    Background Land use and land cover change occurring in tropical forest landscapes contributes substantially to carbon emissions. Better insights into the spatial variation of...
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    Locating emergent trees in a tropical rainforest using data from an Unmanned ...

    Abstract Emergent trees, which are taller than surrounding trees with exposed crowns, provide crucial services to several rainforest species especially to endangered primates...
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    This study analysed the impact of the 2012 flood that occurred in Nigeria on households’ chance of entering into poverty, using a panel analysis of covariance model and data...
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    Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management

    Agroforestry and sustainable landscape management are key strategies for implementing the UN-Sustainable Development Goals across the world’s production landscapes. However,...
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    Processes of elite power and low-carbon pathways: Experimentation, financiali...

    Abstract What is a low-carbon pathway? To many, it is a way of mitigating climate change. To others, it is about addressing market failure or capturing the co-benefits...
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    Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios to expert...

    Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are computer-based instruments used to assess the implications of human activity on the human and earth system. They are simultaneously also...
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    Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in small island developing states

    It is widely agreed that small island developing states (SIDS), a distinct group of 58 developing countries, are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Many SIDS...
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    Near-infrared laboratory spectroscopy of mineral chemistry: A review

    Abstract Spectroscopy is the science concerned with the investigation and measurement of spectra produced when materials interacts with or emits electromagnetic radiation....
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    taking responsibility for the whole

    Sustainable development is a concept that has quickly risen to prominence both in academic work and in policymaking at all levels, particularly since 1987 when the World...
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    The whole systems energy injustice of four European low-carbon transitions

    The need for multi-scalar analysis of energy and low-carbon systems is becoming more apparent as a way to assess the holistic socioeconomic and environmental impacts of energy...
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    European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus, L.) green attack affects foliar...

    The European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus, L. (hereafter bark beetle), causes major economic loss to the forest industry in Europe, especially in Norway Spruce (Picea...
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    Climate change events in the Bengali migration to the Chittagong Hill Tracts ...

    The internal migration of Bengali people to the CHT since the 1970s has been a significant factor in the long-standing ethnopolitical conflict in this region. The prevailing...
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    Decarbonization and its discontents: a critical energy justice perspective on...

    Low-carbon transitions are often assumed as positive phenomena, because they supposedly reduce carbon emissions, yet without vigilance, there is evidence that they can in fact...
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    Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approache...

    The paper sets out a proposal for bridging and linking three approaches to the analysis of transitions to sustainable and low-carbon societies: quantitative systems modelling;...