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Historical dynamics of ecosystem services and land management policies in Switzerland
Jérôme Chenal, Martí Bosch Padrós, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Rémi Jaligot
Ecosystem services (ES) are dynamic over space and time. Understanding and quantifying spatio-temporal trade-offs and synergies among multiples ES, as well identifying the drivers of change provides an opportunity to make the link between ecosystems, polic ...
2019Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities
In Switzerland, as elsewhere, over the past decades, urban areas have spread outwards â consuming the surrounding countryside in the process. The result has been an urban growth associated with negative effects such as the loss of cultivated land.
Sprawl ...
EPFL2019Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot
In Africa, cities are unable to accommodate population growth within their current administrative limits, putting pressure on ecosystem services (ES) in peripheral areas. Existing ES related studies in the region were conducted in East and South Africa, an ...
2018Modelling the potential of Natural Flood Management practices in an upland peatland catchment with the distributed TOPMODEL
Hélène Amélie Madeleine Boisgontier
In order to reduce flood risk, there is a growing interest in more nature-based solutions, such as Natural Flood Management (NFM), rather than hard-engineering ones. To help build the evidence towards these solutions, we analysed the influence of different ...
2018Planning and Land Policy Tools for Limiting Urban Sprawl: The Example of Belgrade
Jean-Claude Bolay, Marija Cvetinovic
Both the characteristics of Serbia’s urban land policy, the delay in reforms and land development management of the Belgrade Metropolitan Area (BMA) illustrate the complexities following the reshaping of institutional framework under the conditions of econ ...
2015Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on grassland functioning
Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Aurélie Thébault
- Grasslands cover similar to 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and provide many ecosystem services. Many grasslands are heavily managed to maximize these services for human benefit, but the outcome of management is anticipated to be increasingly inf ...
Entre ville et campagne
Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...
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