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A Supply-Demand Framework for Eco-Compensation Calculation and Allocation in China’s National Key Ecological Function Areas—A Case Study in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

open access: yesLand, 2022
China’s National Key Ecological Function Areas (NKEFAs) provide important ecosystem services but lose significant development opportunities. An NKEFA consists of a few National Key Ecological Function Counties (NKEFCs).
Mingjie Song   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Émergence de la notion de service environnemental et des dispositifs de rémunération des fournisseurs: le cas du Cambodge

open access: yesVertigO, 2012
The definition of environmental policies in developing countries is affected by globalization of such issues and the change in governments’ interventions.
Colas Chervier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Lens for Analysis of Payment for Ecosystem Services Systems: Transitioning the Working Lands Economic Sector from Extractive Industry to Regenerative System

open access: yesLand, 2021
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) systems are gaining attention worldwide. These systems are an increasingly used incentive structure for conservation, presenting a significant opportunity for science to impact and shape commerce. However, PES systems
Gordon N. Merrick
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Functional Materials: Progress and Emerging Frontiers

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence is transforming the discovery of functional materials by linking synthesis, characterization, simulation, and design in unified workflows. Advances in machine learning, autonomous experimentation, and foundation models are accelerating innovation across energy, electronics, and biomedicine, while revealing new frontiers for ...
Cristiano Malica   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Payment for ecosystem services: possible instrument for managing ecosystem services in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, 2014
Payment for ecosystem services (PESs) is part of a new and more direct conservation and management paradigm explicitly recognizing: (1) the need to bridge the interests of communities connected by ecosystems, (2) the costs of securing and maintaining the provision of different ecosystem services and (3) that those who benefit from these services need ...
Bhatta, L.D   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Hydrological and environmental analysis of the Pirajibu-Mirim watershed, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

open access: yesRevista Ambiente & Água, 2016
The watershed of the Pirajibu-Mirim River, in Sorocaba-SP, contributes to production and the municipal water supply, and is located in a high-priority region for the implementation of a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) program.
Carina Júlia Pensa Corrêa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Review on Additive Manufacturing of Smart Components: Technologies, Applications, and Future Scope

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
How can additive manufacturing enable components that sense, adapt, heal, and power themselves? This review synthesizes recent advances in smart functionalities, manufacturing technologies, and intelligent design strategies, revealing a pathway toward fully integrated, autonomous, and multifunctional systems across diverse engineering sectors. Additive
Aiswarya Rony   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Troubled Encounters: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Chiapas, Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, 2019
ABSTRACTPayments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is a well‐established conservation policy approach worldwide. Where forests are owned and managed by rural and indigenous communities, PES initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices.
Corberan, Esteve   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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