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Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review
In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies, agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific,...
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Wildlife, Rural Communities, and the Rangeland Livelihoods They Share: Opportunities in a Diverse Economies Approach
Because rangeland ecosystems and the wildlife they support are integral to rural economies, understanding economic trends in rangeland regions is a...
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Urban Land Transition
Using land cover and land use data derived from satellite images over the past 30 years, this chapter examines the land transformation from 1990 to...
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Towards BioCities: The Pathway to Transition
In creating a manifesto for BioCities, this book proposes that a city acting as a nature-based socio-ecological system will also be building...
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The Great Urban Transition Landscape and Environmental Changes from Siberia, Shanghai, to Saigon
This monograph examines the (sub)urbanization process of seven transitional economies in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA), i.e., Siberia of...
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Zero-Waste Bioenergy to Lower Energy Transition Risks in Indonesia — A Circular Economy Practice on Methane Capture in Biogas Production from POME
Driven by the urgent need to address climate change, Indonesia, as the world’s largest palm oil producer, faces the challenge of ensuring the...
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Delivering “less but better” meat in practice—a case study of a farm in agroecological transition
Eating “less but better” meat can be a strategy to guide meat consumption in Western or high-income countries towards sustainability, but...
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Food-cash crop diversification and farm household welfare in the Forest-Savannah Transition Zone of Ghana
Despite the importance of crop diversification in enhancing household income and food security, significant knowledge gaps remain in terms of the...
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Governing the Coexistence in a Transition Economy: Trade-Offs Between Smallholders and Mega Farms in the Vietnamese Dairy Sector
Vietnam has been undertaking a transition towards a ‘socialist-oriented market economy’ for the past 30 years. What impact is this transition having...
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The Appalachian Coalfield’s Energy Transition and Prospects
The USA and world economies are experiencing an energy transition. The transition is occurring rapidly in eastern USA with consequent effects on...
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The Role of Interactions Between Organic and Conventional Farming in the Ecological Transition of a Territorial Food System
The territorial scale is increasingly being recognised as appropriate for addressing the ecological transition of food systems, both at the...
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Ocean Finance: Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy
The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth’s surface and plays a crucial role in providing ecosystem goods and services that sustain life and support...
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The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions
The ocean is the ultimate commons. Sustainability narratives now recognise what science continues to demonstrate—that ecosystems on land, rivers,...
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Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas
BackgroundRural and semi-rural areas are complex and dynamic social-ecological systems, many of which have experienced profound impacts from wildland...
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A new green revolution or agribusiness as usual? Uncovering alignment issues and potential transition complications in agri-food system transitions
Agri-food system transitions are a considerable challenge requiring stakeholder alignment on what changes need to be made and how. When stakeholders...
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The unequal burden of human-wildlife conflict
Human-wildlife conflict is one of the most pressing sustainable development challenges globally. This is particularly the case where ecologically and...
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Circular Economy Transition in EU and Italy in Key Priority Sectors: Policies, Initiatives and Perspectives
In this work, we address the transition to the circular economy in the European Union (EU) and in Italy by focusing on the case of some value chains...
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Prospects for Sustainable Development of the Green Energy Sector in the New Economic Environment
Recently, the goal of combating climate change has come to the forefront of the sustainable development agenda, which means that decarbonization and...
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Research Design
There are several distinct gaps in explanations for urbanization/suburbanization in existing literature, particularly for transitional economies....
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EAEU Industrial Development Under SDG-9: Challenges and Possibilities
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are firmly entrenched in the strategic national agenda of all countries in the world, but the implementation of...