Ex Ante Impact Assessment of Policies Affecting Land Use, Part B: Application of the Analytical Framework [PDF]
, 2011 The use of science-based tools for impact assessment has increasingly gained focus in addressing the complexity of interactions between environment, society, and economy.
Bakker, M.M. +4 more
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Key drivers and pressures of global water scarcity hotspots
Environmental Research LettersGlobal freshwater resources are vital to humanity and Earth’s ecosystems, yet about one third of the global population is affected by water scarcity for at least one month per year.
Myrthe Leijnse +5 more
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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceGreen mining construction (GMC) is a sustainable mining development model with the potential of realizing synergistic development of resources, environment, society, and economy. At present, the green mining strategy has yielded some successes, but there
Weixing Lin +3 more
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Perceived Diversity of Complex Environmental Systems: Multidimensional Measurement and Synthetic Indicators [PDF]
The general attitude towards the sustainable management of environmental resources is evolving towards the implementation of ‘participatory’ (as opposed to the classical ‘command and control’) and, especially at local scale, ‘bottom up’ (as opposed to ...
Barbara Del Corpo +2 more
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Scenarios as the basis for assessment of mitigation and adaptation [PDF]
, 2010 The possibilities and need for adaptation and mitigation depends on uncertain future developments with respect to socio-economic factors and the climate system. Scenarios are used to explore the impacts of different strategies under uncertainty.
Arnell, Nigel +14 more
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Stress factors and associated physically based criteria and conclusions on the directions to be followed for developing a physically based vulnerability assessment method [PDF]
, 2005 The specific results and outcomes of this deliverable is the proposition of a methodological framework for groundwater vulnerability assessment to any kind of stress factors, from a physically-based point of view.
Brouyère, Serge +2 more
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A conceptual framework for development of sustainable development indicators [PDF]
There was a boom in the development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs) after notion of sustainability became popular through Bruntland Commission's report.
B. Sudhakara Reddy +1 more
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Actors and factors - bridging social science findings and urban land use change modeling [PDF]
, 2008 Recent uneven land use dynamics in urban areas resulting from demographic change, economic pressure and the cities’ mutual competition in a globalising world challenge both scientists and practitioners, among them social scientists, modellers and spatial
Filatova, T. +10 more
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The EnerGEO Platform of Integrated Assessment (PIA): environmental assessment of scenarios as a web service [PDF]
, 2013 International audienceWith the International Energy Agency estimating that global energy demand will increase between 40 and 50 percent by 2030 (compared to 2003), scientists and policymakers are concerned about the sustainability of the current energy ...
Beloin-Saint-Pierre, Didier +11 more
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A participatory approach for assessing alternative climate change adaptation responses to cope with flooding risk in the upper Brahmaputra and Danube river basins [PDF]
This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia.
Carlo Giupponi +2 more
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