Agroecology for adaptation to climate change and resource depletion in the Mediterranean region. A review

E Aguilera, C Díaz-Gaona, R García-Laureano… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mediterranean agriculture has coevolved with harsh environments and changing climate
conditions over millennia, generating an extremely rich heritage of traditional knowledge; …

Sustainable irrigation and climate feedbacks

Y Yang, Z **, ND Mueller, AW Driscoll, RR Hernandez… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Agricultural irrigation induces greenhouse gas emissions directly from soils or indirectly
through the use of energy or construction of dams and irrigation infrastructure, while climate …

Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas

PS Keller, R Marce, B Obrador, M Koschorreck - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Reservoir drawdown areas—where sediment is exposed to the atmosphere due to water-
level fluctuations—are hotspots for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, the global …

Anthropogenically driven climate and landscape change effects on inland water carbon dynamics: What have we learned and where are we going?

RM Pilla, NA Griffiths, L Gu, SC Kao… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inland waters serve as important hydrological connections between the terrestrial landscape
and oceans but are often overlooked in global carbon (C) budgets and Earth System …

Global energy use and carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture

J Qin, W Duan, S Zou, Y Chen, W Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global
energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We …

Embodied carbon emissions induced by the construction of hydropower infrastructure in China

Z Ge, Y Geng, W Wei, M Jiang, B Chen, J Li - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
China has the largest installed hydropower capacity in the world, contributing more than
60% of the national renewable energy supply. In order to respond to climate change, China …

Sustainability considerations in water–energy–food nexus research in irrigated agriculture

A Hamidov, K Helming - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Irrigated agriculture is essential to satisfying the globally increasing demand for food and bio-
based products. Yet, in water scarce regions, water-use for irrigation aggravates the …

[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture: Evidence of unbalanced research efforts and knowledge gaps

E Aguilera, C Reyes-Palomo, C Díaz-Gaona… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Designing effective mitigation policies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture
requires understanding the mechanisms by which management practices affect emissions in …

Optimisation and process design tools for cleaner production

Y Van Fan, HH Chin, JJ Klemeš, PS Varbanov… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Assessments of hotspot analysis and process optimisation followed by improved design are
essential to achieve cleaner production. Cleaner production also involves complex …

[HTML][HTML] The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)

GI Guzmán, DS Fernández, E Aguilera… - Ecosystem Services, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1992 to 2017, exploring
the specific relationship between the agricultural population and the provision of …