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We discuss how this approach can be operationalized into a hydromapping tool to support forestry operations that minimize water quality impacts. We specifically focus on how hydromapping can be used to support three fundamental aspects of land management planning including how to (i) locate areas where different forestry practices can be conducted with minimal water quality impact; (ii) guide the off-road driving of forestry machines to minimize soil damage; and (iii) optimize the design of riparian buffer zones. While this work has a boreal perspective, these concepts and approaches have broad-scale applicability.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Skogsvetenskap", "Geography", " Planning and Development", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Minimizing forestry effects", "Water Quality", "Environmental Chemistry", "Biomass", "14. 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Este estudio presenta una revisi\u00f3n sistem\u00e1tica de c\u00f3mo estas transiciones impactan en los medios de vida y los servicios ecosist\u00e9micos en la regi\u00f3n. M\u00e1s de 17 000 estudios publicados entre 1950 y 2015 se redujeron, en funci\u00f3n de la relevancia y la calidad, a 93 estudios para su posterior an\u00e1lisis. Nuestro an\u00e1lisis de las transiciones del uso de la tierra de los sistemas de cultivo sucios a los intensificados mostr\u00f3 varios resultados: m\u00e1s hogares hab\u00edan aumentado los ingresos generales, pero estos beneficios tuvieron un costo significativo, como la reducci\u00f3n de las pr\u00e1cticas consuetudinarias, el bienestar socioecon\u00f3mico, las opciones de medios de vida y los rendimientos de los productos b\u00e1sicos. El examen de los efectos de las transiciones en las propiedades del suelo revel\u00f3 impactos negativos en el carbono org\u00e1nico del suelo, la capacidad de intercambio cati\u00f3nico y el carbono sobre el suelo. En conjunto, los impulsores inmediatos y subyacentes de las transiciones de la EPA a los usos alternativos de la tierra, especialmente la intensificaci\u00f3n de los cultivos comerciales perennes y anuales, condujeron a disminuciones significativas en la seguridad de los medios de vida preexistentes y los servicios ecosist\u00e9micos que respaldan esta seguridad. Nuestros resultados sugieren que las pol\u00edticas que imponen transiciones en el uso de la tierra a los agricultores de las tierras altas para mejorar los medios de vida y los entornos han sido err\u00f3neas; en el contexto de los diversos usos de la tierra, la agricultura sucia puede apoyar los medios de vida y los servicios ecosist\u00e9micos que ayudar\u00e1n a amortiguar los impactos del cambio clim\u00e1tico en el sudeste asi\u00e1tico.", "keywords": ["Economics", "Cropping", "Geography", " Planning and Development", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Optimal Operation of Water Resources Systems", "Review", "02 engineering and technology", "livelihoods", "910", "630", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "land-use change", "Livelihood", "Engineering", "Context (archaeology)", "Natural resource economics", "11. Sustainability", "Business", "Asia", " Southeastern", "2. 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Though the positions of individual states or the goal of avoided deforestation guide many approaches, our model sets cost-effective strategies for climate change mitigation and the efficient and balanced use of forest resources at its center. Current approaches to forest resource-based carbon accounting consider only a fraction of its potential and fail to adequately mobilize the LULUCF sector for the successful stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. The presence of a significantly large \u201cincentive gap\u201d justifies the urgency of reforming the current LULUCF carbon accounting framework. In addition to significantly broadening the scope of carbon pools accounted under LULUCF, we recommend paying far greater attention to the troika of competing but potentially compatible interests surrounding the promotion of standing forests (in particular for the purposes of carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection and ecosystem promotion/ preservation), harvested wood products (HWP) and bioenergy use. The successful balancing of competing interests, the enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness and the balanced use of forest resources require an accounting mechanism that weighs and rewards each component according to its real climate mitigation potential. Further, our data suggest the benefits of such a broadly based carbon accounting strategy and the inclusion of LULUCF in national and international accounting and emission trading mechanisms far outweigh potential disadvantages. Political arguments suggesting countries could take advantage of LULUCF accounting to reduce their commitments are not supported by the evidence we present.", "keywords": ["Carbon accounting", "Geography", " Planning and Development", "LULUCF", "Kyoto Protocol", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "Climate change mitigation", "13. Climate action", "11. 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Increased production is urgently needed, but high costs and volatile prices are driving farmers into debt. Zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) is a grassroots movement that aims to improve farm viability by reducing costs. In Andhra Pradesh alone, 523,000 farmers have converted 13% of productive agricultural area to ZBNF. However, sustainability of ZBNF is questioned because external nutrient inputs are limited, which could cause a crash in food production. Here, we show that ZBNF is likely to reduce soil degradation and could provide yield benefits for low-input farmers. Nitrogen fixation, either by free-living nitrogen fixers in soil or symbiotic nitrogen fixers in legumes, is likely to provide the major portion of nitrogen available to crops. However, even with maximum potential nitrogen fixation and release, only 52-80% of the national average nitrogen applied as fertilizer is expected to be supplied. Therefore, in higher-input systems, yield penalties are likely. Since biological fixation from the atmosphere is possible only with nitrogen, ZBNF could limit the supply of other nutrients. Further research is needed in higher-input systems to ensure that mass conversion to ZBNF does not limit India's capacity to feed itself.", "keywords": ["Monitoring", "IEAS/POO2501/1", "NE/S009019/1", "330", "Supplementary Data", "QH301 Biology", "NE/P004830/1", "WHEAT", "01 natural sciences", "630", "12. Responsible consumption", "QH301", "NE/M021327/1", "SOIL PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES", "SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy", "FERTILIZER", "Renewable Energy", "Wellcome Trust", "SDG 2 - Zero Hunger", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Planning and Development", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Geography", "Policy and Law", "Ecology", "Sustainability and the Environment", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS)", "NE/P019455/1", "1. 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Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated \u2018Citizen Observatory\u2019 (CO) and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining beyond the life of the project. This article describes how the initial framework and tools were developed to evolve, bring together and train such a community; raising interest, engaging participants, and educating to support reliable observations, measurements and documentation, and considerations with a special focus on the reliability of the resulting dataset for scientific purposes. The scientific purposes of GROW observatory are to test the data\u00a0 quality and the spatial representativity of a citizen engagement driven spatial distribution as reliably inputs for soil moisture monitoring and to create timely series of gridded soil moisture products based on citizens\u2019 observations using low cost soil moisture (SM) sensors, and to provide an extensive dataset of in situ soil moisture observations which can serve as a reference to validate satellite-based SM products and support the Copernicus in situ component. This article aims to showcase the initial steps of setting up such a monitoring network that has been reached at the mid-way point of the project\u2019s funded period, focusing mainly on the design and development of the CO monitoring network.", "keywords": ["Planning and Development", "Crowdsourced data", "570", "Geography (General)", "550", "Soil moisture monitoring", "crowdsourced data", "0207 environmental engineering", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305", "02 engineering and technology", "Citizen science", "15. Life on land", "name=General Earth and Planetary Sciences", "name=Geography", "Citizen observatory", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "citizen science", "11. 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This article elaborates on Czech and Slovak allotments in the European context and identifies their core functions, services, and benefits. We provide a thorough historical review of allotments in this region, reaching back to the eighteenth century to trace significant periods and historic events that shaped society in general and urban gardening in particular. We analyze the development of allotments until and after 1989 and illustrate key aspects of their present situation using case studies and examples. The article provides a complex historical narrative as a good basis for discussions on contemporary trends, challenges, and visions for the future of urban allotment gardening in both countries.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "11. Sustainability", "05 social sciences", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0507 social and economic geography", "allotments", "02 engineering and technology", "political change", "urban agriculture", "15. Life on land", "spatial planning and development", "civil society"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110145/1/Toth_et_al_Nature_Culture_2018.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2018.130108"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20and%20Culture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3167/nc.2018.130108", "name": "item", "description": "10.3167/nc.2018.130108", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3167/nc.2018.130108"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/su13031570", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-02", "title": "Agronomic and Environmental Performance of Lemnaminor Cultivated on Agricultural Wastewater Streams\u2014A Practical Approach", "description": "<p>This study investigated the potential of Lemna minor to valorise agricultural wastewater in protein-rich feed material in order to meet the growing demand for animal feed protein and reduce the excess of nutrients in certain European regions. For this purpose, three pilot-scale systems were monitored for 175 days under outdoor conditions in Flanders. The systems were fed with the effluent of aquaculture (pikeperch production\uffe2\uff80\uff94PP), a mixture of diluted pig manure wastewater (PM), and a synthetic medium (SM). PM showed the highest productivity (6.1 \uffc2\uffb1 2.5 g DW m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 d\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and N uptake (327 \uffc2\uffb1 107 mg N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 d\uffe2\uff88\uff921). PP yielded a similar productivity and both wastewaters resulted in higher productivities than SM. Furthermore, all media showed similar P uptake rates (65\uffe2\uff80\uff9370 P m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 d\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Finally, duckweed had a beneficial amino acid composition for humans (essential amino acid index = 1.1), broilers and pigs. This study also showed that the growing medium had more influence on the productivity of duckweed than on its amino acid composition or protein content, with the latter being only slightly affected by the different media studied. Overall, these results demonstrate that duckweed can effectively remove nutrients from agriculture wastewaters while producing quality protein.</p>", "keywords": ["Planning and Development", "biological effluent treatment", "nutrient recycling", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Sustainability and the Environment", "Geography", "Monitoring", "Policy and Law", "constructed wetlands", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Management", "12. Responsible consumption", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "protein alternatives", "Lemnaceae", "Renewable Energy", "amino acid composition", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/3/1570/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/3/1570/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031570"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Sustainability", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/su13031570", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/su13031570", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/su13031570"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/su9081492", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-08-22", "title": "Processing, Valorization and Application of Bio-Waste Derived Compounds from Potato, Tomato, Olive and Cereals: A Review", "description": "<p>The vast and ever-growing amount of agricultural and food wastes has become a major concern throughout the whole world. Therefore, strategies for their processing and value-added reuse are needed to enable a sustainable utilization of feedstocks and reduce the environmental burden. By-products of potato, tomato, cereals and olive arise in significant amounts in European countries and are consequently of high relevance. Due to their composition with various beneficial ingredients, the waste products can be valorized by different techniques leading to economic and environmental advantages. This paper focuses on the waste generation during industrial processing of potato, tomato, cereals and olives within the European Union and reviews state-of-the-art technologies for their valorization. Furthermore, current applications, future perspectives and challenges are discussed.</p>", "keywords": ["cereals", "2. Zero hunger", "bio-fertilizers", "633", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "tomato", "7. Clean energy", "olive", "12. Responsible consumption", "food additives", "packaging materials", "Agricultural waste; Bio-fertilizers; Cereals; Food additives; Food waste; Olive; Packaging materials; Potato; Tomato; Valorization technologies; Geography", " Planning and Development; Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment; Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "0404 agricultural biotechnology", "food waste", "13. Climate action", "valorization technologies", "11. 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Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated \u2018Citizen Observatory\u2019 (CO) and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining beyond the life of the project. This article describes how the initial framework and tools were developed to evolve, bring together and train such a community; raising interest, engaging participants, and educating to support reliable observations, measurements and documentation, and considerations with a special focus on the reliability of the resulting dataset for scientific purposes. 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