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Joachim H. Spangenberg
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Inside the Anthropo-Populo-Consumo-Capitalocene
Twenty years ago, Paul Crutzen suggested declaring the present a new geological era and naming it the Anthropocene. While this suggestion is still disputed, we argue that the current state of the Earth system ...
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Rice Ecosystem Services in South-East Asia: The LEGATO Project, Its Approaches and Main Results with a Focus on Biocontrol Services
LEGATO stands for “Land-use intensity and Ecological EnGineering—Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems.”
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Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia
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Open AccessDoing what with whom? Stakeholder analysis in a large transdisciplinary research project in South-East Asia
The transdisciplinary research project LEGATO analysed the combined generation of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services in wet rice agriculture in South-East Asia and applied ecological engi...
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Open AccessThe LEGATO cross-disciplinary integrated ecosystem service research framework: an example of integrating research results from the analysis of global change impacts and the social, cultural and economic system dynamics of irrigated rice production
In a cross-disciplinary project (LEGATO) combining inter- and transdisciplinary methods, we quantify the dependency of rice-dominated socio-ecological systems on ecosystem functions (ESF) and the ecosystem ser...
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Nature-based solutions: criteria
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Open AccessTransdisciplinary research in support of land and water management in China and Southeast Asia: evaluation of four research projects
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) aims at identifying implementable solutions to difficult sustainability problems and at fostering social learning. It requires a well-managed collaboration among multidisciplin...
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Social Licensing in Uranium Mining: Empowering Stakeholders through Information
Modern uranium mining practices are designed to bring operations more in line with sustainable development goals, in particular with respect to environmental and socio-economic criteria. It is now widely recog...
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From explanation to application: introducing a practice-oriented ecosystem services evaluation (PRESET) model adapted to the context of landscape planning and management
The development and use of the conceptual framework of ecosystem services (ES) has been very successful in supporting the broad diffusion and application of ES within science and policy communities. However, ...
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Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary
The RUBICODE project draws on expertise from a range of disciplines to develop and integrate frameworks for assessing the impacts of environmental change on ecosystem service provision, and for rationalising b...
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Biomass or Biomess? The promises and Limits of Bioenergy
In all oil consumption dependent countries the shift from fossil fuels to bio-based ones plays a prominent role in public discussions and political decision making. However, the discussion all too often single...
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Methodological Artefact?
A number of recent publications claims to have demonstrated that the pattern of environmental pollution in growing economies follows an inverted parabolic curve, called the environmental Kuznets curve. It is s...
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Modeling Sustainability — European and German Approaches
Sustainable development is probably the key new paradigm on which to base policies for the future. However, so far the concept remains vague at best in many aspects, and in particular as regards the interactio...
