Gómez-Betancur, Luisa Vilardy Q., Sandra P. Torres R., David
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Environmental Management
In the last years, the interest in ecosystem services (ESs) as a decision-making tool for environmental policy has been growing. The ES paradigm has also impacted the judicial system and in some countries the common law tradition. Experiences and lessons learned from the ES litigation have been already documented. In the initial analysis, this arti...
Souliotis, Ioannis Voulvoulis, Nikolaos
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Environmental Management
The EU Water Framework Directive requires the development of management responses aimed towards improving water quality as a result of improving ecosystem health (system state). Ecosystems have potential to supply a range of services that are of fundamental importance to human well-being, health, livelihoods and survival, and their capacity to supp...
Coughlan, Neil E. Cuthbert, Ross N. Cunningham, Eoghan M. Potts, Stephen McSweeney, Diarmuid Vong, Gina Y. W. Healey, Emma Crane, Kate Caffrey, Joe M. Lucy, Frances E.
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Environmental Management
Suppression of established populations of invasive alien species can be a complex and expensive process, which is frequently unsuccessful. The Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774), is considered a high impact invader that can adversely alter freshwater ecosystems and decrease their socioeconomic value. To date, C. fluminea continues to spr...
León, Mónica Remedios-De Hughes, Kevin Andrew Morelli, Enrique Convey, Peter
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Environmental Management
Antarctica currently has few non-native species, compared to other regions of the planet, due to the continent’s isolation, extreme climatic conditions and the lack of habitat. However, human activity, particularly the activities of national government operators and tourism, increasingly contributes to the risk of non-native species transfer and es...
Miller, Charles Andrew
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Environmental Management
Research and development has been a key part of the foundation for improvements in US air quality since the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 50 years ago. Although the scientific accomplishments and advances over the course of EPA’s history are often overshadowed by policy debates, much of the air pollution science and eng...
Meyer, Markus A. Lehmann, Isabella Seibert, Otmar Früh-Müller, Andrea
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Environmental Management
Land consumption for settlement and infrastructure development has been extensively discussed and analyzed in the last two decades. In Germany, existing governance at the state level seems to hardly foster effective land management at the municipal level to achieve overarching goals at the level of the European Union such as “no net land take”. Ger...
Waheed, Abdul Bernward Fischer, Thomas Khan, Muhammad Irfan
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Environmental Management
Climate Change (CC) adaptation and mitigation policy coherence (PC) across sectors is essential to effectively address CC challenges and support synergies. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to CC. In this paper, the extent to which Pakistan’s national and provincial water, agriculture, and energy sector policies, development plans and strategies are al...
Maloney, Kelly Oliver Carlisle, Daren Milo Buchanan, Claire Rapp, Jennifer Lynn Austin, Samuel Hess Cashman, Matthew Joseph Young, John André
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Environmental Management
Regionally scaled assessments of hydrologic alteration for small streams and its effects on freshwater taxa are often inhibited by a low number of stream gages. To overcome this limitation, we paired modeled estimates of hydrologic alteration to a benthic macroinvertebrate index of biotic integrity data for 4522 stream reaches across the Chesapeake...
Jiren, Tolera Senbeto Leventon, Julia Jager, Nicolas W. Dorresteijn, Ine Schultner, Jannik Senbeta, Feyera Bergsten, Arvid Fischer, Joern
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Environmental Management
Ensuring food security while also protecting biodiversity requires a governance system that can address intra- and intersectoral complexity. In this paper, we sought to explore the governance challenges surrounding food security and biodiversity conservation through an empirical study in Jimma zone, southwestern Ethiopia. We used bottom-up snowball...
Gosling, Elizabeth Knoke, Thomas Reith, Esther Reyes Cáceres, Alyna Paul, Carola
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Environmental Management
Models are essential to assess the socio-economic credentials of new agroforestry systems. In this study, we showcase robust optimisation as a tool to evaluate agroforestry’s potential to meet farmers’ multiple goals. Our modelling approach has three parts. First, we use a discrete land-use model to evaluate two agroforestry systems (alley cropping...
