The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

E Meijaard, TM Brooks, KM Carlson, EM Slade… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

[HTML][HTML] Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

S Whitmee, A Haines, C Beyrer, F Boltz, AG Capon… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural
systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly …

The role of Google Scholar in evidence reviews and its applicability to grey literature searching

NR Haddaway, AM Collins, D Coughlin, S Kirk - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Google Scholar (GS), a commonly used web-based academic search engine, catalogues
between 2 and 100 million records of both academic and grey literature (articles not formally …

Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them

NR Haddaway, A Bethel, LV Dicks… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Traditional approaches to reviewing literature may be susceptible to bias and result in
incorrect decisions. This is of particular concern when reviews address policy-and practice …

A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system

C Dislich, AC Keyel, J Salecker, Y Kisel… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in recent decades. This large‐scale land‐use
change has had great ecological, economic, and social impacts on both the areas converted …

Agro-industrial wastes as building insulation materials: A review and challenges for Euro-Mediterranean countries

E Cintura, L Nunes, B Esteves, P Faria - Industrial Crops and Products, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the possibility of using agro-industrial wastes for building products,
mainly focusing on their insulation properties. A classification of bio-wastes is provided …

Global environmental change and noncommunicable disease risks

H Frumkin, A Haines - Annual review of public health, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Multiple global environmental changes (GECs) now under way, including climate change,
biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, tropical deforestation, overexploitation of fisheries …

Dietary fats and cardiometabolic disease: mechanisms and effects on risk factors and outcomes

JHY Wu, R Micha, D Mozaffarian - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 - nature.com
The effect of dietary fats on cardiometabolic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases
and type 2 diabetes mellitus, has generated tremendous interest. Many earlier investigations …

Plant diversity, forest dependency, and alien plant invasions in tropical agricultural landscapes

K Rembold, H Mangopo, SS Tjitrosoedirdjo… - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Land-use change and intensification in tropical rainforest regions is generally linked to a
loss in species diversity that especially affects forest-dependent species. Indonesia is …

Biodiversity impacts of bioenergy production: Microalgae vs. first generation biofuels

DF Correa, HL Beyer, HP Possingham… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy and fuel demands, which are currently met primarily using fossil fuels, are expected
to increase substantially in the coming decades. Burning fossil fuels results in the increase …