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The Biodiversity Footprint of German Soy-Imports in Brazil
By importing agricultural commodities, Germany causes ecological impacts in other countries. One of these impacts is the loss of biodiversity in the producing regions. This paper presents a new method that combines agricultural trade data with land cover and biodiversity data to assess these effects…Mexico: 20 Years of North American Free-Trade Agreement. Socio-Environmental Trends and Unequal Exchange
With a population of almost 130 million, rich cultural and biological diversity, and abundant natural resources, Mexico has the 11th largest economy in the world by gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for purchasing power parity. During the 1980s and 1990s, the country undertook deep structural…How can the water use of lithium brine mining be adequately assessed?
In the past decades global lithium production has tripled to meet the demand to meet the demand for storage for renewable electricity. So far, the majority of this lithium has come from classic mining operations, mainly in Australia and China. But since 70% of the world's reserves are in the Andes,…The World Budget: Safe and fair resource use for global survival and well-being
This book describes the sustainable shaping of the whole physical basis of the economy and society through the equitable management of global resource consumption. It explains strategies that will enable the development of societies and individuals, even with limited consumption of goods, while…Evaluation of Alpine-Mediterranean precipitation events in convection-permitting regional climate models using a set of tracking algorithms
We here inter-compare four different tracking algorithms by applying them onto the precipitation fields of an ensemble of convection-permitting regional climate models (cpRCMs) and on high-resolution observational datasets of precipitation. The domain covers the Alps and the northern Mediterranean…