The role of agriculture as a development tool for a regional economy

E Loizou, C Karelakis, K Galanopoulos, K Mattas - Agricultural Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
In any turbulent economic environment, sectors of economic activity behave and resist
differently depending on the causes of the turbulence. Some sectors present a unique …

The economic sustainability of farms under common agricultural policy in the European Union countries

M Guth, K Smędzik-Ambroży, B Czyżewski, S Stępień - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to determine the influence of the Common Agricultural Policy's
(CAP) subsidies on the level of economic sustainability of farms by means of three-fold …

Roles of social impact assessment practitioners

CHM Wong, W Ho - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2015 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of social impact assessment (SIA) hinges largely on the capabilities and
ethics of the practitioners, yet few studies have dedicated to discuss the expectations for …

Sustainability assessment framework for scenarios–SAFS

Y Arushanyan, E Ekener, Å Moberg - Environmental impact assessment …, 2017 - Elsevier
To address current challenges regarding sustainable development and support planning for
this form of development, new learning about different possible futures and their potential …

The implication of irrigation in climate change impact assessment: a European‐wide study

G Zhao, H Webber, H Hoffmann, J Wolf… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluates the impacts of projected climate change on irrigation requirements and
yields of six crops (winter wheat, winter barley, rapeseed, grain maize, potato, and sugar …

Quantitative analysis of economic and environmental benefits for land fallowing policy in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

Y Rong, P Du, F Sun, S Zeng - Journal of Environmental Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (BTH region) is a major crop-producing region of
China suffering from environment deterioration. Land fallowing policy is widely used as the …

Analysing the impact of climate and social changes on small farms in the Italian Alps: The importance of the local scale

SH Whitaker - Sociologia Ruralis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article discusses how climate changes are intersecting with other environmental and
social pressures to affect farmers in the Lombardy region of the central Italian Alps. Alpine …

A knowledge brokerage approach for assessing the impacts of the setting up young farmers policy measure in Greece

T Bournaris, C Moulogianni, S Arampatzis… - Environmental Impact …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract This study explores Knowledge Brokerage (KB) aspects of an ex-post Impact
Assessment (IA) for the Rural Development Programme (RDP) measure of setting up young …

Life cycle assessment and multi-criteria analysis in agriculture: Synergies and insights

E Tziolas, T Bournaris, B Manos, S Nastis - Multicriteria Analysis in …, 2018 - Springer
The simultaneous and increasing needs for safe and quality food products, along with the
environmental and socio-economic sustainability, develop a multi-level problem with …

Modelling the common agricultural policy impact over the eu agricultural and rural environment through a machine learning predictive framework

DS Cristea, S Rosenberg, A Pustianu Mocanu… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
This research provides an analytical and predictive framework, based on state-of-the-art
machine-learning (ML) algorithms (random forest (RF) and generalized additive models …