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Adaptation decisions and damage costs under uncertainty in an empirical general equilibrium framework

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Takafumi Usui

Mitigation measures are a priority to avoid irreversible damages to the environment due to climate change. However, additional adaptation efforts will be required to reduce the adverse impacts of projected climate change. While mitigation is more likely to ...

2015

Obtaining natural-like flow releases in diverted river reaches from simple riparian benefit economic models

Paolo Perona

We propose a theoretical river modeling framework for generating variable flow patterns in diverted-streams (i.e., no reservoir). Using a simple economic model and the principle of equal marginal utility in an inverse fashion we first quantify the benefit ...

Elsevier2013

Modeling Social-Ecological Feedback Effects in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services in Pasture-Woodlands

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

An effective implementation of payment for environmental services (PES) must allow for complex interactions of coupled social-ecological systems. We present an integrative study of the pasture-woodland landscape of the Swiss Jura Mountains combining method ...

Resilience Alliance2013

Used planet: A global history

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Human use of land has transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the terrestrial biosphere, a global change often described as historically recent and potentially catastrophic for both humanity and the biosphere. Interdisciplinary paleoecolog ...

Natl Acad Sciences2013

Emerging predictable features of replicated biological invasion fronts

Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea Giometto, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt

Biological dispersal shapes species' distribution and affects their coexistence. The spread of organisms governs the dynamics of invasive species, the spread of pathogens, and the shifts in species ranges due to climate or environmental change. Despite its ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community of researchers and practitioners. Although all these frameworks see ...

Resilience Alliance2013

A Transient Stability Assessment Method using Post-Fault Trajectories

Maher Kayal, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Guillaume Olivier Lanz

Transient Stability Assessment (TSA) is the process in which the stability of a system is characterized qualitatively or quantitatively. The TSA algorithm presented in this paper is derived from the well-established Single Machine Equivalent (SIME) method ...

2013

A transient stability assessment method using post-fault trajectories

Maher Kayal, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Guillaume Olivier Lanz

IEEE2013

Adapting to Socioeconomic Developments by Changing Rules in the Governance of Common Property Pastures in the Swiss Alps

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur

The common property meadows in the Swiss Alps have been managed by local self-organized governance systems since the Middle Ages, thus preventing their overuse. During the past century, socioeconomic developments, such as industrialization and rapid nonagr ...

Resilience Alliance2013

The Hydro-Morphological Index of Diversity

Walter Gostner

Contemporary river engineering must guarantee effective long-term flood protection while also improving stream ecology. Nowadays, river engineering projects must aim at optimizing hydromorphological heterogeneity, as this is an acknowledged basic condition ...

EPFL2012

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