Published in Journal of environmental management
Land cover plays an important role in the Earth's climate as it affects multiple biochemical cycles and is critical for food security and biodiversity. As land cover is continuously evolving, influenced by anthropogenic and other factors, the availability of temporally varying land cover data sets of large spatial domains is integral to understandi...
Published in Frontiers in Nutrition
Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide public health concern, which can be addressed with voluntary or mandatory food fortification. The aim of this study was to determine if branded food composition databases can be used to investigate voluntary fortification practices. A case study was conducted using two nationally representative cross-sectional da...
Some wild, morphologically diverse taxa of the genus Iris in the broad Alpine-Dinaric area have never been explored molecularly, and/or have ambiguous systematic status. The main aims of our research were to perform a molecular study of critical Iris taxa from that area (especially a narrow endemic accepted species I. adriatica, for which we also a...
Building on the original corpus of OSCE monitoring reports, the article analyses quarter of century of election monitoring in Europe and assesses the congruence of OSCE written assessments with expert views. We show that, overall, the OSCE monitoring reports are highly correlated and congruent with expert assessments. More importantly, the level of...
European famines and their legacies continue to play a significant role in heritage practices and societal debates. This calls for an examination of recent scholarship about these heritages of hunger, as well as the formulation of future directions that the relatively young field of famine heritage studies could explore. This article engages with g...
Published in Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The aim of this study is to compare health promotion policies (HPP) for older adults in four European countries: Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. We focus on the design, regulations and implementation of policies in these countries. As policy relevant information is mostly available in national languages we have approached experts in eac...
Using secondary literature and interviews, this paper examines forest discourses since World War II in four countries: Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The national discourses often thematically coincide between the case countries, most prominently in the post-war endeavour to restore forest resources. This period was followed by dive...
In its revised bioeconomy strategy, the European Union (EU) has extended the scope of activities to include services. Employing an output-based approach, this study quantifies the contribution of bioeconomy services to gross domestic product and employment in the EU Member States over 2008–2017. Moreover, it also identifies the main sectoral source...
Le contexte, en changement constant, oblige les associations en général, et celles du mouvement d’éducation populaire en particulier, à s’adapter et à innover. L’intrusion du système néo-libéraliste et du secteur marchand dans le mouvement d’éducation populaire engendre des tensions au sein des fédérations, ainsi qu’une notion de concurrence entre ...
The post-2008 years saw the emergence of a new phenomenon in Europe, more specifically on its Mediterranean shore: left populism. However, the historical and geographical scope of left populism, the content and limits of which are subject to debate, goes much beyond contemporary European politics. Most often explicitly linked to the theoretical tra...
