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A coherent set of future land use change scenarios for Europe

article by Mark D. A. Rounsevell et al published May 2006 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

A comparison of baseline methodologies for 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation'

scientific article published on 13 July 2009

A framework to identify appropriate spatial and temporal scales for modeling N flows from watersheds

scientific article published in April 2008

A multi-scale modelling approach for analysing landscape service dynamics

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A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerabilities to global change

scientific article published in December 2005

A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe

scholarly article by Marc J. Metzger et al published 22 February 2008 in Regional Environmental Change

A spatially explicit scenario-driven model of adaptive capacity to global change in Europe

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A stakeholder dialogue on European vulnerability

scientific article published on 14 March 2008

Adaptation pathways to cope with salinization in south-west coastal region of Bangladesh

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Adaptation to climate change and climate variability in European agriculture: The importance of farm level responses

scientific article published in January 2010

An Integrated Coral Reef Ecosystem Model to Support Resource Management under a Changing Climate

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Another reason for concern: regional and global impacts on ecosystems for different levels of climate change

scientific article published in October 2004

Archetyping shared socioeconomic pathways across scales: an application to central Asia and European case studies

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Assessing effects of forecasted climate change on the diversity and distribution of European higher plants for 2050

scientific article published in April 2002

Assessing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity: is below 2 °C enough?

scientific article published in 2019

BALANCE: an attempt to assess climate change impacts in the Barents Sea Region

scientific article published on 22 December 2007

Below and above-ground carbon distribution along a rainfall gradient. A case of the Zambezi teak forests, Zambia

scientific article published in February 2018

Boreal forest carbon stocks and wood supply: past, present and future responses to changing climate, agriculture and species availability

scientific article published in March 1997

CO2and albedo climate impacts of extratropical carbon and biomass plantations

Can zoning resolve nature use conflicts? The case of the Numto Nature Park in the Russian Arctic

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Canopy gaps and establishment patterns of spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in two old-growth coniferous forests in central Sweden

scientific article published in May 1991

Chapter Seven Scale Issues in Environmental Scenario Development

scientific article published in 2008

Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

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Collaboration between the natural, social and human sciences in Global Change Research

scientific article published in April 2013

Comparing global vegetation maps with the Kappa statistic

scientific article published in August 1992

Comparison of environmental performance for different waste management scenarios in East Africa: The case of Kampala City, Uganda

scientific article published in October 2014

Data for developing allometric models and evaluating carbon stocks of the Zambezi Teak Forests in Zambia.

scientific article

Defining the importance of including transient ecosystem responses to simulate C-cycle dynamics in a global change model

scientific article published in August 2000

Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research

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Description and simulation of tree-layer composition and size distributions in a primaeval Picea-Pinus forest

scientific article published in April 1987

Desertification in the Sahel: Towards better accounting for ecosystem dynamics in the interpretation of remote sensing images

scientific article published in November 2011

Determining sectoral and regional sensitivity to climate and socio-economic change in Europe using impact response surfaces

Determining the global significance of local and regional mitigation strategies: Setting the scene with global integrated assessment models

scientific article published in 1995

Determining the potential distribution of vegetation, crops and agricultural productivity

Developing a common strategy for integrative global environmental change research and outreach: the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP)

Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe

scientific article published on 27 October 2005

Editorial overview – Open issue

scientific article published in December 2010

Editorial overview: Open issue: Sustainability — from concept to practice

scientific article published in June 2015

Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response

scientific article published in February 2012

Effects of different management regimes on mangrove ecosystem services in Java, Indonesia

scientific article published in November 2015

Effects of different management regimes on soil erosion and surface runoff in semi-arid to sub-humid rangelands

scientific article published in October 2015

Effects of urban green infrastructure (UGI) on local outdoor microclimate during the growing season

scientific article published on 7 November 2015

Effects of urban trees on local outdoor microclimate: synthesizing field measurements by numerical modelling

scientific article published on 22 March 2015

Evaluating changes in land cover and their importance for global change

scientific article published on February 1995

Exploring earth system governance: A case study of floodplain management along the Tisza river in Hungary

scientific article published in October 2009

Exploring the climate change concerns of striped catfish producers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

scientific article published in February 2015

Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

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Forty Years of Climate and Land-Cover Change and its Effects on Tourism Resources in Kilimanjaro National Park

scientific article published on 22 January 2019

Future scenarios of European agricultural land use

Future scenarios of European agricultural land use

scientific article published in May 2005

Global desertification: building a science for dryland development

scientific article

Global models meet global policy

scientific article published in September 1996

Global vegetation change predicted by the modified Budyko model

scientific article published in September 1993

Global-change research to understand, handle and solve problems of a Planet under Pressure

scientific article published in February 2012

Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus

scientific article published in 2022

How models can support ecosystem-based management of coral reefs

scientific article published in November 2015

IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change

Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries

scientific article published in December 2010

Inventory analysis of the timber industry in Ghana

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

LCA of the timber sector in Ghana: preliminary life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)

scientific article published on 7 June 2011

Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Open Science Meeting Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29–31 January 1996

scientific article published in October 1996

Land and Water: Linkages to Bioenergy

Managing flood risks in the Mekong Delta: How to address emerging challenges under climate change and socioeconomic developments

scientific article published on 24 February 2018

Managing the current and future supply of ecosystem services in the Hungarian and Romanian Tisza River Basin

scientific article published in February 2012

Mapping and modelling trade-offs and synergies between grazing intensity and ecosystem services in rangelands using global-scale datasets and models

scientific article published in November 2014

Mekong River flow and hydrological extremes under climate change

scholarly article by Long Phi Hoang et al published 29 July 2016 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Modeling the global society-biosphere-climate system: Part 2: Computed scenarios

Modelling for species and habitats: new opportunities for problem solving

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Modelling recovery from soil acidification in European forests under climate change

scientific article published on 3 August 2009

Modelling the impact of future socio-economic and climate change scenarios on river microbial water quality

scientific article

Modelling the response of net primary productivity of the Zambezi teak forests to climate change along a rainfall gradient in Zambia

scientific article published in 2019

Monitoring the world's agriculture

scientific article published in Nature

Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature

No time for smokescreen skepticism: A rejoinder to Shani and Arad

On climate change skepticism and denial in tourism

scholarly article by C.M. Hall et al published 14 November 2014 in Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Opportunities and Constraints for Climate Adaptation in Regional Water and Land Use Planning

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Overview of IMAGE 2.0: An integrated model of climate change and the global environment

scholarly article published 1995

Pattern and Process and the Dynamics of Forest Structure: A Simulation Approach

scientific article published in June 1990

Personal experiences with the governance of the policy-relevant IPCC and Millennium Ecosystem Assessments

scientific article published in February 2008

Potential biodiversity change in Central Asian grasslands: scenarios for the impact of climate and land-use change

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Preparing suitable climate scenario data to assess impacts on local food safety

article by Cheng Liu et al published February 2015 in Food Research International

Quantifying feedback processes in the response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to global change: The modeling approach of image-2

scientific article published in October 1993

Quantifying the effectiveness of climate change mitigation through forest plantations and carbon sequestration with an integrated land-use model

scientific article (publication date: 15 April 2008)

Ranking coastal flood protection designs from engineered to nature-based

scientific article published in February 2016

Redefining environmental sustainability

scientific article published in September 2013

Remote sensing based modelling of the terrestrial carbon cycle of Europe

scientific article published in 1995

Responding to complex societal challenges: A decade of Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) interdisciplinary research

article by Ada Ignaciuk et al published February 2012 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Response of Net Primary Productivity of Zambezi teak forests to climate change along a rainfall gradient in Zambia

Response to commentary ‘towards more meaningful scenarios of biodiversity responses to land-use change in Central Asia

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Science-Policy Interface: Beyond Assessments

scientific article

Scientific Challenges for Anthropogenic Research in the 21st Century: Problems of Scale

Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

scholarly report

Sensitivity analysis of a forest succession model

scientific article published in January 1991

Sensitivity of terrestrial carbon storage to CO2-induced climate change: Comparison of four scenarios based on general circulation models

scientific article published in August 1992

Simulated impacts of climate change on current farming locations of striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus; Sauvage) in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

scientific article published on 9 April 2014

Simulating the carbon flux between the terrestrial environment and the atmosphere

Simulation and future projection of succession in a Swedish broad-leaved forest

scientific article published in April 1992

Simulation modelling and risk assessment as tools to identify the impact of climate change on microbiological food safety – The case study of fresh produce supply chain

scientific article published in August 2010

Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research: what have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs

Special Paper: A Global Biome Model Based on Plant Physiology and Dominance, Soil Properties and Climate

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Special Paper: A Global Vegetation Model Based on the Climatological Approach of Budyko

scientific article published in March 1993

Stabilizing greenhouse gases: Global and regional consequences

scientific article published in 1995

Supplementary material to "Response of Net Primary Productivity of Zambezi teak forests to climate change along a rainfall gradient in Zambia"

Sustainability of forestry and timber industry in Ghana

scientific article published in December 2010

Sustainability or collapse: what can we learn from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature?

scientific article published on November 2007

The Future of Biodiversity in a Changing World

The Importance of Feedback Processes and Vegetation Transition in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

scientific article published in July 1995

The Interaction of Climate and Land Use in Future Terrestrial Carbon Storage and Release

The Mekong's future flows under multiple drivers: How climate change, hydropower developments and irrigation expansions drive hydrological changes

scholarly article by Long P. Hoang et al published February 2019 in Science of the Total Environment

The Value of Conceptual Models in Coping with Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Sciences Education

scientific article published in October 2011

The albedo climate impacts of biomass and carbon plantations compared with the CO2 impact

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

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The dendrochronological potential of Baikiaea plurijuga in Zambia

scientific article

The determination of an optimal waste management scenario for Kampala, Uganda

scientific article published on 12 November 2013

The global terrestrial carbon cycle

scientific article

The impact of first-generation biofuels on the depletion of the global phosphorus reserve

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

The impact of land-cover modification on the June meteorology of China since 1700, simulated using a regional climate model

scientific article published in 2003

The importance of three centuries of land-use change for the global and regional terrestrial carbon cycle

The inaugural issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

scientific article published in October 2009

The interaction of climate and land use in future terrestrial carbon storage and release

The land cover and carbon cycle consequences of large-scale utilizations of biomass as an energy source

The land-use projections and resulting emissions in the IPCC SRES scenarios scenarios as simulated by the IMAGE 2.2 model

scientific article published in December 2004

The lessons learned from shifting from global-change research programmes to transdisciplinary sustainability science

scientific article published in April 2016

The local impacts of climate change in the Ferlo, Western Sahel

scientific article published on 10 October 2008

The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change

scientific article published in May 2006

Thermal comfort in urban green spaces: a survey on a Dutch university campus

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Training future experts in “biodiversity and ecosystem services”: a progress report

scientific article published on 31 July 2008

Transdisciplinary global change research: the co-creation of knowledge for sustainability

scientific article published in September 2013

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests in the Orinoco River basin: Inferring fog interception from through-fall dynamics

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests in the Orinoco river basin: The role of soil organic layers in water storage and release

scientific article published in July 2017

Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

Understanding land-use change to reconstruct, describe or predict changes in land cover

scientific article published in December 2004

Vulnerability and adaptation of European farmers: a multi-level analysis of yield and income responses to climate variability

scientific article published on 9 September 2008

Why we need resilience thinking to meet societal challenges in bio-based production systems

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Wood waste minimization in the timber sector of Ghana: a systems approach to reduce environmental impact