Shakespear Mudombi, Graham Paul Von Maltitz, Alexandros Gasparatos, Carla Romeu-Dalmau, Francis X. Johnson, Charles Jumbe, Caroline Ochieng, Davies Luhanga, Paulo Lopes, Boubacar Siddighi Balde, Katherine J. Willis
Alexandros Gasparatos, Carla Romeu-Dalmau, Graham P. von Maltitz, Francis X. Johnson, Charlie Shackleton, Marcin P. Jarzebski, Charles Jumbe, Caroline Ochieng, Shakespear Mudombi, Anne Nyambane, Katherine J. Willis
Alexandros Gasparatos, Graham P. von Maltitz, Francis X. Johnson, Carla Romeu-Dalmau, Charles B.L. Jumbe, Caroline Ochieng, Shakespear Mudombi, Boubacar Siddighi Balde, Davies Luhanga, Paulo Lopes, Anne Nyambane, Marcin P. Jarzebski, Katherine J. Willis
Alexandros Gasparatos, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Thomas Elmqvist, Kensuke Fukushi, Masafumi Nagao, Frans Swanepoel, Mark Swilling, Douglas Trotter, Harro von Blottnitz
Alexandros Gasparatos, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Thomas Elmqvist, Kensuke Fukushi, Masafumi Nagao, Frans Swanepoel, Mark Swilling, Douglas Trotter, Harro von Blottnitz
Graham von Maltitz, Alexandros Gasparatos, Christo Fabricius
Sustainability (Switzerland) 6 3615-3643 Jan 2014
Jatropha is the latest in a list of "miracle crops" that have been promoted in southern Africa for their perceived development benefits. This was based on promises of high yields, low water requirement, ability to grow on marginal land and lack of...
Miguel Esteban, Per Stromberg, Alexandros Gasparatos, Dexter Thompson-Pomeroy
Climate Research 56 51-60 Mar 2013
It is currently feared that the increase in surface sea temperature resulting from increasing levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere could result in higher tropical cyclone intensity in the future. Although the economic consequences h...
In the past decade a significant evidence base has been built about biofuels' environmental and socioeconomic impacts. What is still missing is a discussion about whether it is desirable, or even feasible, to synthesize this evidence in a clear, c...
Per M. Stromberg, Miguel Esteban, Alexandros Gasparatos
Environmental Science and Policy 14 1079-1090 Dec 2011
Biofuel production has increased dramatically over the past decade, among other to mitigate climate change. However, climate change vulnerability may currently not be sufficiently accounted for in national biofuel strategies, hence neglecting a po...
Alexandros Gasparatos, Per Stromberg, Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 142 111-128 Aug 2011
First generation biofuels provide a number of ecosystem services (e.g., fuel, climate regulation) but they also compromise other ecosystem services (e.g., food, freshwater services) which are of paramount value to human wellbeing. However, this kn...
J. A. Puppim de Oliveira, O. Balaban, C. N.H. Doll, R. Moreno-Peñaranda, A. Gasparatos, D. Iossifova, A. Suwa
Biological Conservation 144 1302-1313 May 2011
City governments are fundamental to implement international environmental agreements, such as the convention on biological diversity (CBD). Even though many of them are not directly involved in the negotiation of international agreements, which ar...
Energy security and food security are two key policy objectives of the Japanese government. However, their study and the policies that have targeted them have been disjointed at best. This paper explores the links between these two policy objectiv...
Journal of Environmental Management 91 1613-1622 Aug 2010
This paper explores the implications that arise with the selection of specific sustainability evaluation tools. Sustainability evaluation tools are conceptualized in this paper as value articulating institutions and as such their choice is a far f...
This study investigates the resource consumption of Japanese society since 1979 and its subsequent effects on the economic output of the nation and the environment. In order to quantify resource appropriation and trends in production and consumpti...
Urban consumption of ecosystems services such as food generates environmental impacts at different geographical scales. In the last few decades Tokyoites have shown an increasing appetite for meat. This study examines the environmental implication...
Both sustainability and sustainable development continue to remain elusive concepts even now, 20 years after the Brundtland Commission report that brought them into prominence. This situation most likely stems from the fact that sustainability sci...
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 13 956-970 Jun 2009
By building on the first part of our analysis, this second part attempts to provide a further understanding of the UK society's metabolism, its impact and offer policy suggestions that could promote a shift towards sustainability. The methodologie...
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 13 1074-1081 Jun 2009
This paper provides a concise overview of the influence of human activity within the UK society on resource consumption and the subsequent effects on the environment. The concept of the Multi Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism (MSIAS...
This paper presents an overview of the resource consumption and environmental impact of the United Kingdom's transport system for the period between 1970 and 2010. For the purpose of this analysis the concept of exergy has been employed both to qu...
Environmental Impact Assessment Review 28 286-311 May 2008
The increasing prominence of Sustainable Development as a policy objective has initiated a debate on appropriate frameworks and tools that will both provide guidance for a shift towards sustainability as well as a measure, preferably quantitative,...
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