Publications
This section provides you with new relevant IA publications: articles, summaries of articles, book descriptions, paper series, reviews and links to IA literature. The publications stem from the LIAISE partners but also externals are accommodated as contributors. The content is in part freely accessible; other is pay content.
Simulating Land Use Policies Targeted to Protect Biodiversity with the CLUE-Scanner Model
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
This chapter presents an integrated modeling approach for assessing land use changes and its effects on biodiversity. A modeling framework consisting of a macro-economic model, a land use change model, and biodiversity indicator models is described and illustrated with a scenario study for the European Union. ... A Rural Typology for Strategic European Policies
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
The role that the agricultural sector plays in rural areas has considerably changed in the last decades, and is reflected in a major shift towards multi-dimensional, multi-sectoral land use. The rural typology presented in this paper has been produced as a response to a new policy need for typologies addressing the diversity in regional rurality. Environmental Policy
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
This section of the 'International Encyclopaedia of Political Science' traces the historical evolution of environmental policy, then outlines its distinctive characteristics and finally identifies its underlying rationales. ... LIAISE Working Paper No.1: Green Economy Discourses in the Run-Up to Rio 2012
Date:
18/11/2011
Excerpt:
The study analyses central contributions to the debate on the concept of a Green Economy in the runup to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable development. It does so by identifying the pillars on which the various understandings of a green economy are based as well as analysing policy
concepts published and statements made.... Chapter on 'Environmental Policy' in the International Encyclopedia of Political Science
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08/11/2011 Appraising the Environmental Drivers of Migration
Date:
08/11/2011
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A new report published by the UK government’s Foresight programme reveals that the major challenges associated with migration and environmental change have been underestimated. ... EXIOPOL Briefs: Bottom-up and Top-down Approach for Policy Analysis
Date:
12/10/2011
Excerpt:
On 12 October 2011, the four-year EU-funded EXIOPOL project coordinated by FEEM, held its final conference in Luxembourg. The project's main finding are summarised in two briefs, representing the Bottom-up and Top-down approaches developed in EXIOPOL. Evaluation of Agricultural Policy Reforms in the European Union
Date:
05/10/2011
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This report provides an overview of the main characteristics and structure of the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its developments in the last 25 years in a changing environment within and outside the EU. Does Research Applying the DPSIR Framework Support Decision Making?
Date:
20/09/2011
Excerpt:
Katharina Helming (ZALF) and others have written an article on research applying the DPSIR framework and its effects on decision making. ... Landscape Scenarios and Multifunctionality – Making Land Use Impact Assessment Operational
Date:
20/09/2011
Excerpt:
Katharina Helming (ZALF) and Marta Perez-Soba of (ALTERRA) have recently edited a special feature on some of the challenges of making land use impact assessment operational for policy making. ...