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Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Applications of local climate zone classification in European cities: A review of in situ and mobile monitoring methods in urban climate studies

Open Geosciences
This review explores the application of local climate zones (LCZs) through various measurement methods, with a focus on mobile and in situ data collection in European urban environments.
Milica Vasić, Jelena Dunjić, Stevan Savić, Ondřej Dočkal   +3 more
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Adaptive Carbon Allocation by Plants Enhances the Terrestrial Carbon Sink

Scientific Reports, 2017
Carbon allocation is one of the most important physiological processes to optimize the plant growth, which exerts a strong influence on ecosystem structure and function, with potentially large implications for the global carbon budget.
Jiangzhou Xia, Wenping Yuan, Ying-Ping Wang, Quanguo Zhang   +3 more
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An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

Geoscientific Model Development, 2019
. Increasing urbanization is likely to intensify the urban heat island effect, decrease outdoor thermal comfort, and enhance runoff generation in cities.
N. Meili, Gabriele Manoli, P. Burlando, E. Bou‐Zeid, Winston T. L. Chow, A. Coutts, E. Daly, K. Nice, M. Roth, N. Tapper, E. Velasco, E. Vivoni, S. Fatichi   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

The role of urban governance in smart cities development in Vietnam

Discover Sustainability
This paper examines the role of urban governance in shaping smart city development in Vietnam, with a focus on Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang.
Nguyen Kim Hoang
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Trade Realignments and the Need for Integrated Modeling Research in Latin America's Agri‐Food Sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Emiliano Lopez Barrera
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Human‐Centered Intelligent Inhabitable Spaces: A Review

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review introduces Robot‐Rooms as a new category of architectural‐scale robots that do not operate within a space but actively form and reconfigure the space around their occupants. Drawing from robotics, HCI, architecture, and the arts, an interdisciplinary framework is proposed that maps the enabling technologies and integration challenges ...
Nithesh Kumar, Ge Lv, Keith E. Green, Ian D. Walker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

American 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, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability innovations and their drivers and barriers

Sustainable Futures
In today`s modern industrial societies, economy, prosperity, and well-being are resource-intensive and often shaped neither socially nor ecologically responsibly:.
Mona Treude, Tim Dünnwald, Hans Haake
doaj   +1 more source