Education in agroforestry: preliminary results from the AGROF MM - Erasmus+ Project

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Lessons learnt from the intercropping and grazing of high value tree systems across europe

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Olive groves intercropped in Molos, central Greece

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Putting the best news forward: the influence of pressure to be a community booster on community newspaper gatekeepers

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 12, 2013).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Thesis advisor: Dr. Timothy VosIncludes bibliographical references.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2013.Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Journalism."May 2013"The purpose of this study was to examine whether newspaper editors feel pressure to be a community booster and how such pressure affects their gatekeeping process. The study used a qualitative method, consisting of semi-structured interviews with 14 Missouri community newspaper editors. Results revealed that while editors and editor/publishers felt some pressure from both internal and external sources at their newspapers, editors' gatekeeping process remained largely unaffected, with gatekeeping decisions made more on the basis of journalistic values like balance, fairness and independence rather than in response to any perceived pressure to either give stories a positive slant or kill stories that showed negative aspects of the community. The principal conclusion is that while some pressure exists, it is merely one factor in gatekeeping decisions and does not carry more weight than other factors

Caractérisation d'événements à partir de signaux relatifs au comportement d'un élément combustible en situation accidentelle

Présentation d'un outil d'aide au dépouillement d'expériences de sûreté nucléaireCaractérisation d'événements à partir de signaux relatifs au comportement d'un élément combustible en situation accidentell

A Greening Europe? A Comparative Study of Environmental Activism, Public Opinion, and Party Competition in Europe

What influences social actors’ decisions to talk about and act for climate change? Political science research has focused on the drivers of environmental salience, yet the results are mixed. In this dissertation, I contribute to the discussion on environmental salience, and analyze four different aspects of environmental salience, through four independent research papers. I concentrate on Europe and study some determinants of environmental salience among the public and among political parties. The first paper studies the impact of countries’ global integration on individuals’ participation in environmental organizations. I argue that people’s political ideology conditions the positive effect of the global spread of environmental attitudes. Being on the right side of the ideological spectrum decreases the positive impact of global integration on environmental activism compared to being on the left side. The second paper analyzes the transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes. In one of the first comprehensive and systematic attempts, me and my co-authors explore whether there is a cross-border effect stemming from environmental disasters abroad on public opinion “at home”. The third paper studies the Conference of the Parties (COP) and its influence on environmental attitudes of the local communities that host it. Non-governmental organizations, media sources, and protestors gather around the location of COPs, disproportionately affecting individuals who live in proximity to the event compared to more distant residents. The last paper focuses on party competition on environmental issues. I disentangle parties’ responses to issue and non-issue owners and show that while mainstream parties de-emphasize environmental issues when green parties gain electoral support, they emphasize them when their mainstream competitors highlight them. However, I also show that this positive influence is conditional on the success of green parties. In systems with strong green parties, rival parties’ influence disappears

Agroforestry can mitigate environmental problems in european agricultural deficit areas

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Works for the diversion of bed of rivers and torrents and their impact to the environmental of the Lagoons of Greece and Italy

This work deals with the comparative account and evaluation of the impact to the environment and especially with the alterations to the geomorphological structure and the hydro-geomorphological processes caused by the works for the diversion of the beds and the flow of rivers and torrents in the greater area of the "Katafourko lagoon" in Greece and of the "Venice lagoon" in Italy. Human intervention in the study areas, was of different aims in each location, but it all resulted in the alteration of the dynamic evolution of the hydro-geomorphological processes which has led to the creation of an "artificial" environment, controlled to a great extend by human power and which in turn, in the long term re-strengthens and reenforces the possibility of environmental destabilization

Scanning agroforestry-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe

Agroforestry, the integration of trees and shrubs with livestock and/or crops, can make a substantial contribution to mitigating and enabling adaptation to climate change. However, its full potential will only be achieved if the challenges to agroforestry implementation are identified and the most efficient and sustainable solutions are made widely known. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore these challenges and to determine the most suitable set of solutions for each challenge that combines local effectiveness with European scale relevance. We performed a two-step “solution scanning” exercise. First, the main challenges to sustainable agroforestry in Europe were identified through 42 participatory workshops with 665 local stakeholders. The solutions to each challenge were scanned and classified into either direct solutions (28) to address climate change or indirect solutions (32) that improve the sustainability of agroforestry. In a second step, the direct solutions were prioritized through expert consultation in terms of their potential benefits for mitigation and adaptation. The most commonly reported barriers were a lack of knowledge and reliable financial support to which the most widely suggested indirect solutions were agroforestry training programmes and the development of safe economic routes. The direct solutions considered as holding the greatest mitigation and adaptation potential were the adoption of practices capable to increase soil organic carbon pools and the implementation of multifunctional hedgerows and windbreaks respectively. Our solution scanning approach can inform the implementation of the European climate strategy in general and to the Common Agricultural Policy in particular by pointing to concrete climate beneficial actions