Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 264
Cover Image
Urban watershed services for improved ecosystem management and risk reduction, assessment methods and policy instruments : state of the art
Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - 2013
Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226002
Cover Image
Methods for modeling public policy and investment impacts on the economy, natural capital and ecosystem services
Banerjee, Onil; Crossman, Neville; Vargas, Renato; … - 2020
The year 2020 is a critical year for sustainable development policy and practice with the review and renewal of various international commitments including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Paris Agreement. The post-2020 agenda needs to be informed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587560
Cover Image
Coastal infrastructure and climate change adaptation in Bangladesh : ecosystem services insights from an integrated SES-DAPSIR framework
Martinez-Hernandez, Alberto Gabino; Rivadeneyra, Perla; … - 2024
The escalating impacts of climate change on coastal regions stress the urgency for effective adaptation strategies, particularly for the case of high-risk countries such as Bangladesh. Naturebased solutions, grey and mixed coastal infrastructure offer promising solutions for addressing these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578420
Cover Image
Qualitative scenario building for post-carbon cities
Breil, Margaretha; Cattaneo, Cristina; Johnson, Katie - 2015
outcomes from the visions and scenarios resulting from these workshops provides insights on the drivers that determine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438685
Cover Image
The WITCH 2016 model : documentation and implementation of the shared socioeconomic pathways
Emmerling, Johannes; Drouet, Laurent; Reis, Lara Aleluia; … - 2016
implement the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) set of scenarios and RCP based climate policies to provide a new set of … climate scenarios. In this paper, we describe in detail the mathematical formulation of the WITCH model, the solution method … and calibration, as well as the implementation of the five SSP scenarios. This report therefore provides detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487772
Cover Image
The potential role of hydrogen towards a low-carbon residential heating in Italy
Tavella, Sergio; Noussan, Michel - 2021
presents an analysis of different scenarios comparing the penetration of buildings' heating technologies for the residential … 2050, by also discussing the main barriers and opportunities that lie ahead. The scenarios are defined starting from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519957
Cover Image
Actors, decision-making, and institutions in quantitative system modelling
De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; … - 2017
Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715004
Cover Image
Effect of farming system for nutrition on nutritional intakes : a study of two regions in India
DJ, Nithya; Raju, S; Bhavani, R. V.; Panda, Akshaya Kumar; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471106
Cover Image
Scaling up ecosystem services values : methodology, applicability and a case study
Brander, Luke; Ghermandi, Andrea; Kuik, Onno J.; … - 2010
The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728839
Cover Image
An indicator for ecosystem externalities in fishing
Ravn-Jonsen, Lars; Andersen, Ken H.; Vestergaard, Niels - 2015
Ecosystem externalities arise when one use of an ecosystem affects its other uses through the production functions of the ecosystem.We use simulations from a size-spectrum ecosystem model to investigate the ecosystem externality created by fishing of multiple species. The model is based upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283691