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Urban Sustainability and the SDGs: A Nordic Perspective and Opportunity for Integration

Urban Science, 2019
Urban sustainability has been used to cover multiple aspects of urban development. Terms related to sustainability have been generously used to advance ubiquitous and hard-to-measure targets not least in response to global and national sustainable ...
Emma Terama, Juha Peltomaa, Maija Mattinen-Yuryev, Ari Nissinen   +3 more
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Heavy Metal Contamination: Impacts From Plants to the Food Chain and Eco‐Friendly Amelioration Strategies

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Heavy metal pollution reduces soil health and threatens food safety by entering plants; however, the use of nanoparticles, biofertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as biochar offers a promising strategy for improvement and sustainable agriculture. ABSTRACT Heavy metal (HM) pollution, resulting from human activities such as mining and the excessive ...
Sina Siavash Moghaddam, Latifeh Pourakbar, Sevda Alizadeh, Zahra Alizadeh, Jelena Popović‐Djordjević   +4 more
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Quantifying the contribution of triple compound extreme events to global yield loss of major staple crops from 1982 to 2016

Journal of Integrative Agriculture
The increasing frequency of compound extreme events under ongoing climate change threatens global food security. Compared to individual extreme events, the simultaneous occurrence of multiple extreme events can exacerbate crop yield reductions, yet ...
Kun Xiao, Ying Sun, Wei Wu, Xuewen Zhou, Zhicheng Zhang, Qiuyao Lai, Chen Huang, Zhenhua Xiong, Qinchuan Xin   +8 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social bots shape public issue networks in China’s dual-carbon agenda: a network analysis using MRQAP

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Despite growing recognition of social bots’ role in swaying public opinion, evidence of their specific impact on public cognition remains limited. Applying the network agenda-setting theory and multiple regression quadratic assignment procedure (MRQAP ...
Han Lin, Menghan Zhang, Xue Qi, Wenqian Shen   +3 more
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A daily high-resolution (1 km) human thermal index collection over the North China Plain from 2003 to 2020

Scientific Data, 2023
Human-perceived temperature (HPT) describes the joint effects of multiple climatic factors such as temperature and humidity. Extreme HPT events may reduce labor capacity and cause thermal discomfort and even mortality.
Xiang Li, Ming Luo, Yongquan Zhao, Hui Zhang, Erjia Ge, Ziwei Huang, Sijia Wu, Peng Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yu Tang   +9 more
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional Datasets Supporting Vulnerability Assessments of Riverine Bridges in Peru

Scientific Data
Riverine bridges are critical yet vulnerable infrastructure, constantly exposed to hydrological hazards substantially increased by climate change. Consequently, they require designs that ensure resilience and an adequate useful life cycle.
Alain Jorge Espinoza Vigil, Joel Ccanccapa Puma, Alan Huarca Pulcha, Alejandra Ticona-Quispe, Diego Huarcaya-Perez, Alberth Gonzales-Turpo, Roly Cusihuaman-Casquina, Flor Lucana-Hancco, Julian Booker   +8 more
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