Search Results - "Willaarts, Barbara"
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Environmental Factors Controlling Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Two Contrasting Mediterranean Climatic Areas of Southern Spain
Published in Land degradation & development (01-04-2016)“…Managing soil carbon requires accurate estimates of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and its dynamics, at scales able to capture the influence of local factors…”
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Assessing the ecosystem services supplied by freshwater flows in Mediterranean agroecosystems
Published in Agricultural water management (01-03-2012)“…► Agroecosystems supply a larger flow of hydrologic services compared to native Mediterranean forests. ► Green water supplies the richest flow of water-related…”
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Fostering integrated land and water management approaches: Evaluating the water footprint of a Mediterranean basin under different agricultural land use scenarios
Published in Land use policy (01-02-2017)“…•86% of annual rainfall is evapotranspired as green water (79%) and blue water (7%).•Agriculture has the largest water footprint (WF: 2814hm3), but 92% is…”
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Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots
Published in Environmental research letters (01-05-2018)“…Understanding the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development is increasingly required to inform effective actions to manage…”
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Towards durable legal protections for rivers in Chile
Published in Water international (17-08-2024)“…The protection of Chile's rivers is a matter of ongoing public and constitutional interest in the wake of Chile's failed 2019-2024 constitutional reforms. In…”
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River basins as social-ecological systems: linking levels of societal and ecosystem water metabolism in a semiarid watershed
Published in Ecology and society (01-09-2015)“…River basin modeling under complexity requires analytical frameworks capable of dealing with the multiple scales and dimensions of environmental problems as…”
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A Participatory Approach to Exploring Nexus Challenges: A Case Study on the Pinios River Basin, Greece
Published in Water (Basel) (01-11-2023)“…The conservation of natural resources is indispensable for supporting sustainable development. Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus management is widely…”
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More cash and jobs per illegal drop? The legal and illegal water footprint of the Western Mancha Aquifer (Spain)
Published in Environmental science & policy (01-08-2015)“…•Changes in water footprint content between 2000 and 2009 are mainly due to vine irrigation development.•The water footprint of 330Mm3 in 2009 triplicates the…”
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Replenishing the Indus Delta through multi-sector transformation
Published in Frontiers in environmental science (09-12-2022)“…The Indus River Basin (IRB) is a severely water-stressed and rapidly developing home to an estimated 250 million people in South Asia. An acute deficit of…”
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A comparison of the Mediterranean diet and current food consumption patterns in Spain from a nutritional and water perspective
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-05-2019)“…The promotion of responsible consumption is a key strategy to achieve environmental benefits, sustainable food security, and enhance public health. Countries…”
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Integrated Solutions for the Water-Energy-Land Nexus: Are Global Models Rising to the Challenge?
Published in Water (Basel) (01-11-2019)“…Increasing human demands for water, energy, food and materials, are expected to accentuate resource supply challenges over the coming decades. Experience…”
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Food consumption and waste in Spanish households: Water implications within and beyond national borders
Published in Ecological indicators (01-06-2018)“…The improvement of the sustainability of global food systems is a top priority. Many efforts have targeted the production side, yet managing food consumption…”
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Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences
Published in PloS one (18-06-2012)“…Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators…”
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Drivers influencing streamflow changes in the Upper Turia basin, Spain
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-01-2015)“…Many rivers across the world have experienced a significant streamflow reduction over the last decades. Drivers of the observed streamflow changes are…”
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Evaluating the Water Footprint of the Mediterranean and American Diets
Published in Water (Basel) (01-10-2016)“…Global food demand is increasing rapidly as a result of multiple drivers including population growth, dietary shifts and economic development. Meeting the…”
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Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds
Published in Ecology and society (01-09-2015)“…Biophysical and social systems are linked to form social-ecological systems whose sustainability depends on their capacity to absorb uncertainty and cope with…”
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An accurate evaluation of water availability in sub-arid Mediterranean watersheds through SWAT: Cega-Eresma-Adaja
Published in Agricultural water management (01-02-2019)“…•Land use and soils are the most important data for the Hydrology Response Units definition, a critical step in SWAT calibration.•Drought periods mitigation…”
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Enhancing LULC scenarios impact assessment in hydrological dynamics using participatory mapping protocols in semiarid regions
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-01-2022)“…Land use and land cover (LULC) scenarios in rural catchment hydrology are crucial to describe the effects of future water dynamics. However, there is a lack of…”
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Changes in land uses and management in two Nature Reserves in Spain: Evaluating the social–ecological resilience of cultural landscapes
Published in Landscape and urban planning (30-10-2010)“…In the last decades, changes in land use and management have led to the degradation of many cultural landscapes in European rural areas. Such degradation has…”
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The role of Latin America's land and water resources for global food security: environmental trade-offs of future food production pathways
Published in PloS one (24-01-2015)“…One of humanity's major challenges of the 21st century will be meeting future food demands on an increasingly resource constrained-planet. Global food…”
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