[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] The long-term expansion and the evolution of town planning of a contemporary European metropolis (Athens, Greece) has been analysed in this study in order to evaluate how sustainable urban growth has been taken into ...
[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] Land degradation is more evident where conditions of environmental vulnerability already exist because of arid climate and unsustainable forms of land exploitation. Consequently, semi-arid and dry areas have been ...
[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] 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 ...