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

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

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

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

We study how urban land use fragmentation affects the subjective wellbeing of city residents. Therefore, we calculate fragmentation...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The contribution of biofuels to save greenhouse gas emissions has been challenged over the last years. A still unresolved question is...

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...

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

Most people in Europe live in urban environments. For these people, urban green space is an important element of well-being, but it is...

Urban green spaces, including parks, provide numerous ecosystem services (ES) for city inhabitants. Besides provisioning and...

Growing demands for meat and dairy products (MDP), biofuels, and scarcity of agricultural land are drivers of global land use...

Two possible adaptation scenarios to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario...

South Africa is likely to experience higher temperatures and less rainfall as a result of climate change. Resulting changes in...