[EN] Climate change leverages landscape transformations and exerts variable pressure on natural environments and rural systems. Earlier studies outlined how Mediterranean Europe has become a global hotspot of climate warming ...
Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús; Salvia, Rosanna; Egidi, Gianluca; Salvati, Luca; Giménez Morera, Antonio; Quaranta, Giovanni(Universidad de la Rioja, 2022)
[EN] Land degradation and, subsequently, desertification processes are conditioned by biophysical factors and human impacts. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest by social scientists to assess its implications. ...
[EN] Diachronic variations in demographic rates have frequently reflected social transformations and a (more or less evident) impact of sequential economic downturns. By assessing changes over time in Total Fertility Rate ...
[EN] Economic, social, and climatic conditions affect agricultural production. Those changes are relevant to the rainfed agricultural areas of the Mediterranean Belt, including Spain-the largest producer of olive oil in ...
[EN] Early season fruit production for the northern European market is highly intensive in fertilization, machinery, irrigation and the use of herbicides. Those conditions increase the soil losses and soil compaction and ...
[EN] Between the 1970s and the 1990s, cities in Southern Europe experienced a progressive delocalisation of population, settlements and activities over larger regions. Economic downturns have increasingly influenced more ...
[EN] The linkage between land-use change and demographic transitions in advanced countries
has becoming increasingly complex because of the mutual interplay of environmental and socioeconomic spheres influencing the degree ...
[EN] Fertility is a spatially non-stationary property of regional demographic systems. Despite the wealth of quantitative (micro-macro) information delineating short-term population dynamics in advanced economies, the ...
[EN] Understanding Soil Degradation Processes (SDPs) is a fundamental issue for humankind. Soil degradation involves complex processes that are influenced by a multifaceted ensemble of socioeconomic and ecological factors ...
[EN] Urban growth is a largely debated issue in social science. Specific forms of metropolitan expansion-including sprawl-involve multiple and fascinating research dimensions, making mixed (quali-quantitative) analysis of ...
[EN] Following an operational framework derived from earlier research, our study research estimates the specific contribution of biophysical and socioeconomic factors to soil sensitivity to degradation at two-time points ...