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Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
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On conservation of world heritage Beijing-Hangzhou grand canal for enhancing cultural ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2023
Yixin Zhang, Zehui Jing, Qiuyue Huang, Xinyue Wang, Wenxin Sun, Chenyue Zhang, Jieqing Wang, Yujia Zhong, Jiesi Wang, Tan Li, Zheng Li, Bo Wang, Lifen Wang, Xiangli Sun, Jun Zhai, Weizhu Wang, Yongfa Wu, António Candeias   +17 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Economic valuation of marine ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2017
The marine and coastal ecosystem provides a variety of services. Fisheries is an important provisioning service with supplements from supporting and cultural services. The potential services that can be provided by the marine coastal ecosystem includes,
Narayanakumar, R
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SAFETY CULTURE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly
In this article, an attempt is made to indicate the role and importance of ecosystem services as advantages that are provided to us by the environment. The authors demonstrate selected concepts of ecosystem services and their classification, but only to introduce the reader to pilot studies of the urban ecosystem. The present article aims to define the
Hanna SOMMER, Tomasz KOSTECKI, Grzegorz ZAKRZEWSKI   +2 more
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Creating Shared Value as an Antecedent of Value Co‐Creation: B2B Relationships in the Agri‐Food Sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the effects of value co‐creation and creation of shared value in agricultural input marketing. This study used a sample of 178 agricultural companies in Costa Rica. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) with SMART PLS software. Our findings reveal the significant influence
Luis Ricardo Solís‐Rivera, Marcelo Royo‐Vela   +1 more
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Participatory GIS in Mapping Ecosystem Services: Two Case Studies from High-Biodiversity Regions in Italy and Peru [PDF]

, 2017
Assessing ecosystem services (ES) and mapping their values are of paramount importance. Here we present two case studies where the participatory mapping of social values of landscape ecosystem services is used in territories with high levels of cultural ...
Codato, Daniele, DE MARCHI, Massimo, Pappalardo, Salvatore   +2 more
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Determinants of Knowledge and Usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Extension: Evidence From Tennessee Extension Personnel

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Jason de Koff, James Muriuki, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost-benefit analysis of ecological networks assessed through spatial analysis of ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2012
1.The development of ecological networks could enhance the ability of species to disperse across fragmented landscapes and could mitigate against the negative impacts of climate change.
Balmford, Birch, Boitani, Brenman, Bullock, Cantarello, Crossman, Davies, de Groot, DECC, Egoh, Eycott, Fahrig, Fisher, Fuller, Jones-Walters, Jongman, Kareiva, Lawton, Naidoo, Naidoo, Nelson, Newell, Opdam, Rayment, Rouquette, Sutherland, TEEB, TEEB, The Wildlife Trusts, Treasury, Woodward   +31 more
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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using green infrastructure: A literature review [PDF]

, 2007
Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well-being.
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak, Barrett, Bartley, Beier, Bengtsson, Bixler, Bodin, Bolund, Booth, Bratton, Brunner, Brussard, Butler, Cairns, Calow, Collins, Costanza, Costanza, Davey-Smith, Davey-Smith, de Groot, de Leo, de Vries, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Dunn, Ehrlich, Faber-Taylor, Flores, Grimm, Haddad, Haeuber, Haila, Hartig, Hartig, Henwood, Hobbs, Horwitz, Humpel, Humpel, Jari Niemela, Jongman, Kalevi Korpela, Kaplan, Kaplan, Kim, Kinzig, Konstantinos Tzoulas, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Lackey, Levin, Li, Loreau, Lu, Macintyre, Macintyre, Mageau, Mayer, Millennium Assessment, Moss, Naeem, Newell, Noss, Odum, Opdam, O’Campo, Paton, Patz, Payne, Philip James, Pickett, Pickett, Pikora, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rioux, Ross, Rudlin, Sallis, Sandström, Schrijnen, Simberloff, St Leger, Stephen Venn, Stokols, Takano, Tanaka, Tilman, Troyer, Turner, Turner, Ulrich, Ulrich, Ulrich, van der Ryn, van Kamp, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Walmsley, Wells, Westphal, Whitford, Wicklum, Wilson, Yli-Pelkonen, Zielhuis, Zielinski-Gutierrez, Zipperer   +119 more
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