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To ensure the long-term sustainable use of African Great Lakes (AGL), and to better understand the func-tioning of these ecosystems, authorities, managers and scientists need regularly collected scientific data and information of key environmental indicato ...
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Measures against the abandonment of common property summer pastures: experimental evidence from joint appropriation-provision games

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Common property summer pastures constitute longstanding evidence that the tragedy of the commons can be prevented through self-organization. As a byproduct of their sustainable governance, high nature value farming systems with well-integrated patchy lands ...
RESILIENCE ALLIANCE2021

Raw Materials and Sustainable Development Goals: the EU Policy Contribution

Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations for 2030 (UN General Assembly 2015) could not be reached without the contribution of raw materials. Raw materials are fuelling the manufacturing sector and creating jobs and value a ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Smart specialisation strategies and industrial modernisation in European regions-theory and practice

Dominique Foray

Based on a seminal policy paper (Foray et al., 2009), the Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) approach was integrated into the reformed cohesion policy of the European Union for 2014-20. This large-scale European experience provides a unique case study of ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

Three methodological contributions towards modelling endogenous policy-emergence in societal transitions

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Today we are facing many politically driven sustainability transitions in complex sociotechnical systems. Sustainability transition scholars look at these transitions with their own theoretical lenses, often paying too little attention to the interactions ...
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Policy mixes for resource efficiency – theoretical and practical challenges

Based on an on-going research project called “Policy options for a resource efficient Europe” (POLFREE), this paper analyses potential policy instruments and their interdependencies in a policy mix for resource efficiency. It focuses on fundamental trade-o ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

CHANGE AGENTS ENGAGED IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION IN THE FINNISH FOOD SYSTEM

Food security is a crucial topic in sustainability science. Agricultural land occupies approximately 37–38% of the Earth’s land surface, and about one third of the EU’s environmental impact is caused by the current food system. Further, feeding the world’s ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Modelling the future secondary resource availability and recycling potential of aluminium in austria

Production of secondary aluminium (Al) currently represents about 70% of total European Al production with a still rising trend and about 50% European final Al demand. The utilization of anthropogenic Al resources as secondary raw materials is therefore a ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Evaluation of mulching in drip irrigated areas in semi-arid regions (Burkina Faso) and related hydrogeological context

Info4Dourou2.0 is a research project aiming at improving agricultural yield and water consumption in drip irrigated areas in semi-arid regions by using continuous soil humidity measurements. Within this framework, the main goal of this thesis was to invest ...
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Advances in farm animal genomic resources

Stéphane Joost

Livestock conservation is changing rapidly in light of policy developments, climate change and diversifying market demands. The last decade has seen a step change in technology and analytical approaches available to define and manage Farm Animal Genetic Re ...
2015

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