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The potential of market schemes in nitrogen trading

Nitrogen is vital to agriculture and, generally, to our lives, but its use comes at a price. The paper explores a ‘Smart Market’ approach as a possible means to limit its negative impact on the environment.

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Spatial Coordination Incentives for landscape-scale environmental management: A systematic review

Agri-environment schemes (AES) are incentive mechanisms that provide funding for farmers and land managers so that they adopt measures that help support biodiversity, preserve landscapes and improve quality of water.

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New policy instruments for greater coherence: The case of the EU’s Farm-to-Fork Strategy

Improving the food system sustainability is one of the biggest challenges of our time. It is closely related to other issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, food security, malnutrition and soil degradation. A cross- sectoral approach therefore is needed.

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Forest ecosystem services in Romania: Orchestrating regulatory and voluntary planning documents

Forest ecosystems provide numerous material and immaterial services to landowners and users. Their management is a key issue to be addressed by environmental governance. Even if the scientific community pay little attention to how ecosystem services are managed and integrated in decision- making processes, ecosystem services feature more and more on environmental policy agendas.

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Enhancing Spatial Coordination in Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes with Non-Pecuniary Preferences

Are monetary incentives the best way to achieve land spatial coordination in ecosystem services? A new experiment measures the impact of non- pecuniary motives in land owners’ decisions.

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Standardized response signatures of functional traits pinpoint limiting ecological filters during the migration of forest plant species into wooded corridors

Developing a new set of quantitative metrics to effectively measure the functionality of green lines as dispersal corridors for forest-dwelling plant species

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Long-term effect of different management regimes on the survival and population structure of Gladiolus imbricatus in Estonian coastal meadows

Challenges and opportunities of coastal meadow restoration in a long-term, multi- target approach

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Habitat and host specificity of epiphytic lichens in a rural landscape: cultural heritage habitats as refugia

The green desert created by the timber forest management is a threat for epiphytes biodiversity that may be partially overcome by exploiting cultural heritage habitats in rural landscapes

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Nature Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation – Paying Farmers for Flood Control

Streams and rivers break their banks more and more often due to climate change, endangering the people who live in flood risk areas. A system of scheduled flooding of the fields around towns in these areas may be a solution, but do farmers agree?

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Incentivising biodiversity net gain with an offset market

A new policy has been put forward in the fight to preserve biodiversity, calling on the private sector and borrowing from market economics.