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Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond

2022

In this article, we propose a framework of principles and criteria for just transitions in food systems. Climate mitigation activities are urgently needed in food systems, but can have damaging social, environmental, economic, and health impacts. Consequently, food system transitions can cause significant side effects across and beyond food systems, aggravating existing inequalities and unsustainabilities, causing new ones, or hampering equal engagement in the transition itself. Thus, justice questions stand at the core of assessing decarbonization pathways and policies and must link to other sectors as well: Who bears the costs and who enjoys the benefits of the transitions? Can transition…

Policy mixes for more vital legume value chains: Evaluation across competing policy frames

2021

Legumes receive increasing attention in sustainability transition research as they can contribute to more sustainable food systems. Previous research has established the need for policies relating to both production and consumption to tackle the marginalisation of legumes in European cropping systems and diets. In this paper, we apply the policy mix framework to food system transition and develop it further into an interpretive policy mix framework to evaluate policy mixes for more vital legume value chains. The interpretive policy mix framework facilitates a better understanding of competing policy frames in designing more consistent, coherent, and comprehensive policy mixes for transition…

Rural architecture in Western Sicily tradition. Identity, sustainable recovery

2010

Current status and development of sanitation and wastewater treatment in the national and international context

2012

El acceso al saneamiento y depuración de aguas residuales es un aspecto de suma importancia tanto desde el punto de vista ambiental como sanitario. Por ello, desde el Imperio Mesopotámico hasta la actualidad se han producido importantes avances en esta materia. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, en la mayoría de los países en vías de desarrollo el acceso al saneamiento continua siendo deficitario. Por otra parte, los países desarrollados, que sí disponen de sistemas adecuados de depuración de aguas residuales, se enfrentan al reto de mejorar la sostenibilidad de estos sistemas. En este trabajo se describe en profundidad el estado actual y evolución en el tiempo del saneamiento y depuración de a…

A sustainable city environment through child safety and mobility:A challenge based on ITS?

2012

Our cities should be designed to accommodate everybody, including children. We will not move toward a more sustainable society unless we accept that children are people with transportation needs, and ‘bussing’ them around, or providing parental limousine services at all times, will not lead to sustainability. Rather, we will need to make our cities walkable for children, at least those above a certain age. Safety has two main aspects, traffic safety and personal safety (risk of assault). Besides being safe, children will also need an urban environment with reasonable mobility, where they themselves can reach destinations with reasonable effort; else they will still need to be driven. This p…

Multi-Energy School System for Seasonal Use in the Mediterranean Area

2020

School buildings represent an energy-consuming sector of real estate where different efficiency actions are necessary. The literature shows how the design of a multi-energy system offers numerous advantages, however, there are problems related to the integration of cogeneration units with renewable energy sources due to the low flexibility of the first one and the high degree of uncertainty of the latter. The authors provide an alternative solution through the analysis of a case study consisting of a multiple energy system in three Sicilian schools, focusing on the system&rsquo

Open Science in the digital era

2021

Advances in digital technologies have disrupted the established openness of the institution of open science in the digital era. They have introduced unprecedented possibilities and challenges to instantly, interactively, collaboratively, and responsibly perform science around the world. This doctoral dissertation is aimed at a philosophical, sociological, and economic conceptualization of the normative structure of open science in the digital era, as well as revealing its impact on the established governance of research and innovation at universities. I present a systematic literature review and two empirical studies on how new digital technologies and tools, together with new open physical…

Are Public Subsidies to Encourage Young Farmers Effective? Case Study of a First-Time Farm Set Up by a Young Female Farmer in the Valencian Region of…

2021

Generational renewal and the incorporation of women into the rural world are fundamental for the sustainability and modernisation of the agricultural sector. Hence the special government protection granted to the sector, which appears in both European legislation on rural issues and in the global strategy of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Rural Development Goals involving a commitment to measures aimed at helping young farmers to set up agricultural holdings and especially at encouraging women to engage in farm management. In the case of Spain, this is nothing new, given that Law 35/2011 on the Shared Ownership of Agricultural Holdings became a veritable revolution in terms of gender i…

PIL.21-22-Unit 12. The international environmental protection

2022

Public International Law. Unit 12. The international environmental protection. Powerpoint of the Academic course 2021-2022. 1. International environmental law: specific characteristics. (a) General aspects. (b) Historical development. (c) Characteristic features of International Environmental Law. 2. The fundamental principles of International Environmental Law. (a) The principle of international cooperation for the protection of the environment. (b) The principle of prevention of transboundary environmental damage. (c) The principle of liability and redress for environmental damage. (e) The principle of public participation.

Innovative In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation Strategies of the Madonie Fir Abies nebrodensis

2022

Abies nebrodensis (Lojac.) Mattei is an endemic species of the north-west of Sicily located in an 84 ha area in the Madonie Regional park. The current population is limited to 30 relic adult trees and a fluctuating number of juveniles of natural regeneration. The species is defined as “Critically Endangered” in the Italian list of threatened plants and is classified as CR-D in the 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This article reports the key action undertaken by the LIFE4FIR project aimed at preserving A. nebrodensis, and the results obtained so far in three years of activity. OpenArrays SNPs genotyping revealed a high rate of inbreeding in the natural population and that the adult…