The replacement of fossil resources with renewable biomass in a bioeconomy is seen as a major contribution to climate change mitigation. This...

The latest Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) by the European Union (EU) provides an updated framework for the use of renewable energy in the...

Water sustainability is central to modern political and academic debates. Despite increasing efforts to promote regional and global integrated...

The goal of this technical paper is to present in a transparent way a detailed description of the DART-BIO model – the bioeconomy and land use...

The replacement of fossil resources with renewable biomass in a bioeconomy is seen as a major contribution to climate change mitigation. This...

The water footprint has developed into a widely-used concept to examine water use and resulting local impacts caused during agricultural and...

When modeling medium and long-term challenges we need a reference path of economic development (the so-called baseline). Because sectoral...

Potential trade-offs between providing sufficient food for a growing human population in the future and sustaining ecosystems and their...

Biomass energy still dominates the energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular as the main cooking energy source in rural and urban...

The ambitious climate policy objectives of the COP21 agreement require the design and the implementation of effective and efficient policy...

In a recent report published in Science (“The global tree restoration potential”, 5 July 2019, p. 76) Bastin et al. claim that forest...

This paper evaluates how bioeconomy activities, stated in the concepts of the European Union, Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and...

Sound policy needs tools for production analysis under uncertainty such as the state-contingent approach. Apart from demonstrating the...

Irrigation expansion is critical to increase crop yields and mitigate effects from climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the low...

Based on evidence from national data, Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (AER 2012) suggest that growth of night lights can proxy reliably for...

With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main strategies to boost agricultural production, but are...

Labor time has been proposed as an alternative payment vehicle in eliciting preferences for public goods in nonmone-tized communities....

Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks...

We present an application of the travel cost method to a large urban forest site in Berlin, Germany. The analysis is based on a large onsite...

Urban parks offer city residents a broad range of opportunities for recreation. This paper explores whether preferences for urban parks are...