The transition from a linear bio-based economy to a sustainable circular bioeconomy depends not only on the skills that the different actors of the innovation system can find, develop, and exploit internally, but also on the efficiency with which they can access external sources of knowledge and...

Hemos desarrollado un modelo de programacion multiperiodo con una funcion objetivo multicriterio en un area representative de la agricultura modernizada del Valle del Guadalquivir, dicidiendola en tipologias, del explitaciones y haciendo una posterior agregacion de los reultados. El modelo se ha...

This paper integrates indicators of environmental, social and economic impact of a range of policy scenarios through the use of Multicriteria and Multiperiod Programming. The case study is irrigated agriculture in the basin of the River Guadalquivir, and the policy scenarios combined Common...

A multiperiod model based upon a multicriteria objective function has been developed for a representative area of the Guadalquivir Valley, dividing the irrigated area into homogeneous types of farming as identified by cluster analysis. The model was applied to different future scenarios with a...

The goal of this study is a comparative analysis between agroecological and conventional small coffee farms. We investigate fifteen coffee farms in the East region of Minas Gerais, a Brazilian rural region based on coffee production, using a multicriteria analysis (MCA) with economic, social and...

A main problem in emerging countries is the reduction of poverty in rural areas with sustainable agricultural systems. This study analyses differences between agroecology (a pattern of sustainable economic development with ecological processes directed to reduce production costs and support...

The main objective of this study is to account for spatial preference variability in the economic valuation of water quality improvements in the river basin context. This is expected to be particularly relevant for the implementation of the European WFD, as it will involve spatially...

This paper was removed Feb. 27, 2013 at the request of the authors.