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Targeted policy proposals for managing spontaneous forest expansion in the Mediterranean
(Wiley, 2020-10-15)
Recent forest expansion in Euro‐Mediterranean countries predominantly results from secondary succession in abandoned farmland, rather than from artificial afforestation. This major forest transition ...
A Sum of Incidentals or a Structural Problem? The True Nature of Food Waste in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona
(MDPI, 2018-10-17)
Addressing the generation of food waste is a major challenge nowadays. An increasing
interest in studying food waste generation has emerged over the last decade. However, little attention
has been ...
Assessing drivers’ preferences for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) in Spain
(Elsevier, 2019-02-28)
With the aim of analyzing preferences for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), two stated preference methods (a contingent valuation exercise and a discrete choice experiment (DCE)) were used in a survey ...
Effectiveness of a carbon tax to promote a climate-friendly food consumption
(Elsevier, 2018-08-18)
Valuing social sustainability in agriculture: An approach based on social outputs' shadow prices
(Elsevier, 2018-08-24)
Interest in sustainability has gained ground among practitioners, academics and policy-makers due to growing stakeholders' awareness of environmental and social concerns. This is particularly true for ...
Consumers’ wine preferences in a changing scenario
(Emerald, 2018-01-01)
Purpose:
Important socioeconomic changes have been undergone due to the international economic crisis.
In Catalonia (Spain), political changes towards independentism also occurred within the same ...
Are Consumers’ Egg Preferences Influenced by Animal-Welfare Conditions and Environmental Impacts?
(MDPI, 2019-11-06)
We conducted a labelled discrete choice experiment (DCE) to assess consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for fresh hens’ eggs produced via different production systems (caged, barn, free ...
Nature’s contribution to people provided by pastoral systems across European, African, and Middle East Mediterranean countries: trends, approaches and gaps
(Springer, 2024-05-15)
Mediterranean pastoral systems are providers of a wide array of Nature’s Contribution to People (NCP). They are ‘complex
systems’ characterized by limited resources and socio-economic dynamics currently ...
Revealing additional preference heterogeneity with an extended random parameter logit model: the case of extra virgin olive oil
(Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, 2014-07-09)
Methods that account for preference heterogeneity have received a significant amount of attention in recent literature.Most of them have focused on preference heterogeneity around the mean of the random ...
Determinant factors of the adoption of improved maize seeds in Southern Mexico: A survival analysis approach
(MDPI, 2018-10-02)
Maize is the most important and strategic crop in Mexico, however, this sector suffers from
low productivity. Among the various strategies to improve yield by hectare, improved maize seeds
play an ...