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... Understanding and quantifying ES flows is essential for the sustainable management of social-ecological systems, as it directly captures the human-nature interactions within the system and not solely its individual elements. Especially in degrading marine systems, most ES assessments focus solely on either biophysical or socio-economic elements of these social-ecological systems, failing to direct ...
socioeconomics, etc ; green infrastructure; stakeholders; Show all 3 Subjects
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... Urban green infrastructure (UGI), designed and implemented to improve sustainability and reduce vulnerability to natural hazards, are increasingly advocated as win–win solutions. These have indeed proven to be desirable to complement grey infrastructure in urban areas. However, it is becoming apparent that the implementation of UGI also involves unique obstacles and unintended outcomes. In this pr ...
socioeconomics, etc ; resource management; risk; stakeholders; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Important advances have been made to define the multiple impact pathways relating mineral resource use to the area of protection (AoP) natural resources in life cycle assessment (LCA). Yet, the link between stakeholders’ interests and the aspects relevant to resource use as addressed by existing impact assessment methods has so far only marginally been explored. This article proposes to go beyond ...
socioeconomics, etc ; income; traditional technology; Ghana; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Formalisation of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has come to dominate the discourse on mineral exhaustion, livelihoods, and the persistence of vulnerabilities in ASM settings. Often touted as a panacea to curbing the excesses of informal mining operations, the calls for the formalisation of ASM operations continue unabated. In this paper, we explore how the operations and managem ...
socioeconomics, etc ; income; kinship; Sub-Saharan Africa; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Growing urban as well as rural uncertainties in sub-Saharan Africa have increased the importance of the household and kinship relations as providers of welfare and social security. Households therefore may be increasingly stretched across space. This points to the need to analyse the interplay between socio-economic differentiation and translocality. The article uses a mixed methods approach, comb ...
socioeconomics, etc ; agricultural sciences; livestock; rain; viability; Tunisia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Understanding and representing the transformation of agricultural production systems has attracted increasing interest due to its importance for identifying drivers of changes and coping mechanisms in response to global challenges. These challenges are all the most pressing in North African countries exposed to a dramatic reduction in rainfall and increasing temperatures that affect sustainability ...
socioeconomics, etc ; sustainability science and engineering; sustainable development; Show all 3 Subjects
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... In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly agreed on an agenda for sustainable development in member countries. Nations committed themselves to meeting 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), involving 169 socio-economic targets, by year 2030. To measure progress in meeting those targets, it was proposed to track more than 240 socio-economic indicators over the coming years. What is, ...
socioeconomics, etc ; air quality; climate; environment; models; society; surveys; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Measures promoting active mobility – walking or cycling – are often seen as an effective strategy to meet multiple urban objectives. The advantages of such behavioural changes cover multiple dimensions at public and individual level, including positive impacts on health, safety, climate, economy, environment and air quality. However, there is still a considerable potential for increasing the uptak ...
socioeconomics, etc ; flood control; global change; hydrometeorology; risk; Lithuania; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The hydrometeorological data was analysed for the identification of the causality and behaviour of the 2010 flood in Lithuania. Moreover, 326 different articles about the selected flood were collected and reviewed to establish the extent of damage and losses. The multi-criteria analysis was used for the assessment of socio-economic risk in the area of 1% probability inundation. The applied ranking ...
socioeconomics, etc ; humans; land use; sample size; spatial data; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Detailed urban landuse information plays a fundamental role in smart city management. A sufficient sample size has been identified as a very crucial pre-request in machine learning algorithms for urban landuse classification. However, it is often difficult to recognize and label landuse categories from remote sensing images alone. Alternatively, field investigation is time-consuming with a high de ...
socioeconomics, etc ; forest policy; forests; income; people; social welfare; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are widely used wild, biological products harvested from rural and urban landscapes for household subsistence, income and culture, thereby contributing to human wellbeing. Estimates of the numbers of people making use of, or being dependent on, NTFPs vary widely, and global estimates to date have excluded urban populations and also NTFP users in the Global North. ...
socioeconomics, etc ; climate; climate change; issues and policy; Pakistan; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Pakistan has an agriculture-dependent economy vulnerable to climate impacts. Within Pakistan, Punjab province is a leading regional producer of food and cash crops, and an exporter of agricultural commodities of significance in South Asia. Punjab agriculture provides livelihoods for agriculture-dependent communities living in one of the most populous countries of the world and these will be disrup ...
socioeconomics, etc ; risk; risk management; sewer systems; soil; Italy; Show all 6 Subjects
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... City of Florence, central Italy Aiming at defining a nature-based strategy to mitigate pluvial flood risk, a two-tiered methodology is proposed. Firstly, the areas prone to pluvial flood are identified by a spatial multi-criteria analysis that combines five criteria (imperviousness, slope, hydrologic soil groups, density of sewer system and social vulnerability) to build a Pluvial Flood Index (PFI ...
socioeconomics, etc ; casein; data collection; milk; provenance; stable isotopes; Show all 6 Subjects
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... As consumers become more conscious of socio-economic, environmental, and welfare implications of their food choices, the authenticity of foods is increasingly important. For dairy products, legal cases challenging “grass-fed” and country of origin claims further highlight the need to scientifically underpin product claims. Stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA) measures small, naturally occurring di ...
socioeconomics, etc ; economic performance; education; gender; geography; labor; unemployment; Switzerland; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Cross-border commuting might be a way to improve an efficient allocation of labour resources, improve the economic performance of border regions and reduce economic and territorial inequality. This study explores the impact of a set of socio-economic, infrastructural or cultural explanatory variables that drive cross-border commuting in the EU and Switzerland for all outgoing commuters from living ...
socioeconomics, etc ; land policy; land use; regression analysis; urbanization; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Through an examination of output efficiency of urban land use and its driving mechanisms, this paper aims to highlight the roles of inherent differences in development cycle and resource endowment and the need for a targeted revitalization policy in resource-based cities in China. Based on the Slack-Based Model-Undesirable through the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Tobit model on panel da ...
socioeconomics, etc ; capital; entropy; finance; multi-criteria decision making; tourism; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A thorough review of techniques for the experts invested in capital markets is necessary to take the decision-making process on the stock. When it comes to profiting from the capital markets, timing is crucial. The accurate evaluation of the financial performance of the businesses in the tourism sector is of great importance both in socio-economic and strategic terms in all countries in the world. ...
socioeconomics, etc ; data collection; disaster preparedness; population growth; surveys; Indonesia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This paper presents the dataset about the social vulnerability in Indonesia. This dataset contains several dimensions which rely on previous studies. The data was compiled mainly from the 2017 National Socioeconomic Survey (SUSENAS) done by BPS-Statistics Indonesia. We utilize the weight to obtain the estimation based on multistage sampling. We also received additional information on population, t ...
socioeconomics, etc ; La Nina; climate; climatology; statistical analysis; temperature; Argentina; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Several socio-economic sectors are sensitive to the occurrence of extreme climate events. The ability to predict these extremes will allow precautionary measures to reduce their impacts. This work aims to disseminate a seasonal statistical forecast of daily temperature extremes in Argentina to the international scientific community. At the local level, this forecast is shared at monthly meetings o ...
socioeconomics, etc ; case studies; life cycle assessment; stakeholders; supply chain; Show all 5 Subjects
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... PURPOSE: Social Organisational Life Cycle Assessment (SO-LCA) is a methodology to evaluate the social and socio-economic aspects of the activities of a whole organisation (or a portion of it) from a life cycle perspective. Although introduced in 2015 and outlined in the Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Organisations 2020, SO-LCA is still poorly applied. This work is an a ...