A framework linking farming resilience with productivity: empirical validation from Poland in times of crises

AbstractFarming sectors’ resilience has been built over decades with the aid of policies and institutions. However, its actual standing can be assessed in times of crises when farms have to overcome particular challenges. We use a large-scale farming sectors dataset FADN spanning 2006–2015 in which two major economic crises occurred—the global economic crisis of 2008 and the Russian embargo of 2014—to exemplify our approach to resilience’s assessment based on the Polish farming sectors. We introduce a distinction between “potential resilience” versus “revealed resilience” where the former is assessed based on resilience capacities (robustness, adaptability and transformability), while the latter is assessed based on the observed decomposition of total factor productivity (TFP) changes in response to the adverse economic shocks. Hence, the proposed framework directly links productivity with the two types of resilience. We applied the Färe-Primont method of TFP decomposition, into technological change and various types of efficiency changes and a detailed farm survey to distinguish between the drivers of technological changes in each farming sector such as specific innovations and ecosystem services. Our findings show that farms differ in their revealed resilience both among the sectors and between two different shock events. Only field crop farms and granivores farms (pig and poultry) maintained their resilience to both crises, staying robust and/or adaptable. The former had the most productive technology and were leaders in applying innovations while the latter were second best in innovations and fairly good in their application of ecosystem-based services into their technology. Other farm types failed to be resilient to the first crisis but proved robust during the second. The outcomes of the study have implications for sustainability oriented policies.

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Large-scale empirical validation of Bayesian Network structure learning algorithms with noisy data

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning ◽

10.1016/j.ijar.2021.01.001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 131 ◽

pp. 151-188

Author(s):

Anthony C. Constantinou ◽

Yang Liu ◽

Kiattikun Chobtham ◽

Zhigao Guo ◽

Neville K. Kitson

Keyword(s):

Bayesian Network ◽

Network Structure ◽

Large Scale ◽

Structure Learning ◽

Learning Algorithms ◽

Noisy Data ◽

Empirical Validation ◽

Bayesian Network Structure ◽

Bayesian Network Structure Learning

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Dryland Degradation and Expansion: Implications for Mexican Policies from the Earth System Perspective

Environmental Policy and Law ◽

10.3233/epl-201024 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Gabriel Lopez Porras

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Science Policy ◽

Land Degradation ◽

Water Scarcity ◽

Large Scale ◽

Earth System ◽

Sustainable Land Management ◽

System Perspective ◽

The Earth

Despite international efforts to stop dryland degradation and expansion, current dryland pathways are predicted to result in large-scale migration, growing poverty and famine, and increasing climate change, land degradation, conflicts and water scarcity. Earth system science has played a key role in analysing dryland problems, and has been even incorporated in global assessments such as the ones made by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. However, policies addressing dryland degradation, like the ‘Mexican programme for the promotion of sustainable land management’, do not embrace an Earth system perspective, so they do not consider the complexity and non-linearity that underlie dryland problems. By exploring how this Mexican programme could integrate the Earth system perspective, this paper discusses how ’Earth system’ policies could better address dryland degradation and expansion in the Anthropocene.

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Vulnerability and Importance of Arctic Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions for Sustainability in a Changing Climate

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3148 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elisie Kåresdotter ◽

Zahra Kalantari

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

High Resolution ◽

Large Scale ◽

Natural Capital ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Indigenous Populations ◽

The Arctic ◽

Current Status ◽

Human Beings ◽

Arctic Wetlands

<p>Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions (NBS) provide multiple ecosystem services of local, regional, and global importance. Knowledge concerning location and vulnerability of wetlands, specifically in the Arctic, is vital to understand and assess the current status and future potential changes in the Arctic. Using available high-resolution wetland databases together with datasets on soil wetness and soil types, we created the first high-resolution map with full coverage of Arctic wetlands. Arctic wetlands' vulnerability is assessed for the years 2050, 2075, and 2100 by utilizing datasets of permafrost extent and projected mean annual average temperature from HadGEM2-ES climate model outputs for three change scenarios (RCP2.6, 4.5, and 8.5). With approximately 25% of Arctic landmass covered with wetlands and 99% being in permafrost areas, Arctic wetlands are highly vulnerable to changes in all scenarios, apart from RCP2.6 where wetlands remain largely stable. Climate change threatens Arctic wetlands and can impact wetland functions and services. These changes can adversely affect the multiple services this sort of NBS can provide in terms of great social, economic, and environmental benefits to human beings. Consequently, negative changes in Arctic wetland ecosystems can escalate land-use conflicts resulting from natural capital exploitation when new areas become more accessible for use. Limiting changes to Arctic wetlands can help maintain their ecosystem services and limit societal challenges arising from thawing permafrost wetlands, especially for indigenous populations dependent on their ecosystem services. This study highlights areas subject to changes and provides useful information to better plan for a sustainable and social-ecological resilient Arctic.</p><p>Keywords: Arctic wetlands, permafrost thaw, regime shift vulnerability, climate projection</p>

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Preface 3th Workshop "Large-scale Hydrological Modelling – Hydrological Modelling for the Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Landscape Functions", 25–27 November 2009, Dresden

Advances in Geosciences ◽

10.5194/adgeo-27-87-2010 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 87-89

Author(s):

A. Wahren ◽

F. Tavares Wahren ◽

K. H. Feger

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Large Scale ◽

Hydrological Modelling ◽

Landscape Functions

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VALUE-SENSE MANAGEMENT

EurasianUnionScientists ◽

10.31618/esu.2413-9335.2021.6.82.1243 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1(82)) ◽

pp. 38-43

Author(s):

A. Kurbatov ◽

L. Kurbatova

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Large Scale ◽

System Analysis ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Political Reality ◽

The World ◽

Sufficient Degree ◽

Modern Economic ◽

The Subject ◽

Scientific Practical

The greatest crisis, which is being experienced by the world economy, has not come unexpectedly, since it was predicted with a sufficient degree of precision. Moreover, the matters, causing obstacles for the transformation in the period of transition from the mixed economy to the intellectual economy, have been studied well enough and the technologies of the harmonious transformation have not just been developed but also successfully approbated. However, the crisis is escalating with increasing strength, and many analysts are warning against the risk of irreversible losses, that threaten the mankind with self-destruction due to the effect of 'the lacuna' and 'the gap' between the speed of changes in life conditions and the velocity of growth of human and humanity abilities to adapt to fast changing conditions of ecological, economic, technological and political reality. As anticipated, the main problem turned out to be the intellectual inertia. Despite the fact that the system analysis of the global crisis in education, which does not any longer provide the human and humanity with the proper competencies, even those necessary for the survival, was published by F.G.Coobles back in 1968, the approaches which are long outdated and, therefore, have become dangerous, are still widely spread all over the world. The reports of the Roman club have repeatedly highlighted that the overcoming of 'the lacuna' effect requires new approaches to education, but this has not led to large scale practical results, in spite of the fact, that the task of the development of the new system of the continuous anti-crisis education (for all ages) was accomplished back in the USSR and the experimental model proved to be efficient in process of the 20 years approbation in conditions of the Russian Federation. The psychological bareers arising during the transition from the programme goal method to the system-synergetic approach, from the crisis model of economy to value-sense one, from the subject-object relations to the subject-subject ones and others, have turned to be hard to overcome without the help of specialists, equipped with the methods of the value-sense management, which enable each subject, experiencing the negative impact of the modern economic crisis, to successfully overcome it. This article is dedicated to the peculiarities of the author's scientific-practical school of the value-sense management as a means of overcoming the modern economic crisis.

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LANDSCAPE DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: CASE STUDY OF TEHRAN AND HIS KAN RIVER

4th EMAN Conference Proceedings (part of EMAN conference collection) ◽

10.31410/eman.2020.311 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ilda Vagge ◽

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Gioia Maddalena Gibelli ◽

Alessio Gosetti Poli ◽

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...

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Large Scale ◽

Management Practices ◽

Natural Capital ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Small Scale ◽

Design For Sustainability ◽

Holistic Method

The authors, with the awareness that climate change affects and changes the landscape, wanted to investigate how these changes are occurring within the metropolitan area of Tehran. Trying to keep a holistic method that embraces different disciplines, reasoning from large scale to small scale, the authors tried to study the main problems related to water scarcity and loss of green spaces. Subsequently they dedicated themselves to the identification of the present and missing ecosystem services, so that they could be used in the best possible way as tools for subsequent design choices. From the analysis obtained, the authors have created a masterplan with the desire to ensure a specific natural capital, the welfare of ecosystem services, and at the same time suggest good water management practices. It becomes essential to add an ecological accounting to the economic accounting, giving dignity to the natural system and the ecosystem services that derive from it.

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Architecting for Connected Healthcare

Enterprise Architecture for Connected E-Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1824-4.ch013 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 306-325

Author(s):

Torben Tambo ◽

Nikolai Hoffmann-Petersen ◽

Karsten Bejder

Keyword(s):

Healthcare System ◽

Change Process ◽

Large Scale ◽

Enterprise Architecture ◽

Self Care ◽

Home Monitoring ◽

Technological Changes ◽

The Everyday ◽

Scale Population ◽

Hospital Stays

The healthcare system is in many countries operated by the governments, and interaction with the healthcare system is one of the most frequent interactions between citizen and government. Demographic, medical, and technological changes are likely to bring new aspects of connectedness into the everyday life of people and place healthcare and homecare professionals in new roles. A transformation is taking place where hospital best practices are constantly reducing patient’s in-hospital stays to alternative, less-costly care—notably at home. Telemedicine, telehealth, eHealth, home monitoring, and self-care are essential aspects of this transformation. Many issues are influencing this transformation, and new barriers are showing up where others are removed. A broadly oriented enterprise architecture effort is presented for the underpinning of the change process. The architectural approach encompasses views of the citizen, the healthcare system, the information infrastructure, and the citizen-oriented technology. A case of telemonitoring and self-care is presented using mobile hypertension measurement on a large-scale population cohort. Evaluation of the acceptance and success of the solutions is done within a combined understanding including technology, economy, organization, and culture.

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Large scale biotic damage impacts on forest ecosystem services

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research ◽

10.1080/02827581.2018.1495256 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (8) ◽

pp. 741-755 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amalesh Dhar ◽

Lael Parrott ◽

Scott Heckbert

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Forest Ecosystem ◽

Large Scale ◽

Forest Ecosystem Services

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Agricultural basic industry subjects productivity development examination in the region Trnava (SR) by adopting the Malmquist indexes

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/10/2010-agricecon ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 56 (No. 3) ◽

pp. 108-115

Author(s):

P. Bielik ◽

D. Hupková ◽

M. Vadovič ◽

V. Benda

Keyword(s):

Technical Efficiency ◽

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Future Trend ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Efficiency Change ◽

Basic Industry ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Two Factors ◽

Malmquist Indexes

Analysis of the productivity and efficiency development could be used to asses the trend and factors influencing this process. The main goal of this paper is estimation of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) development of agricultural farms in the Trnava region in the period 2002–2006. Results of this analysis could be used to detect the trend in the TFP development. The results of the analysis confirmed there is no evident trend in the average TFP indicators. This could be explained by the variation of technical efficiency change and technological changes during this period. These two factors represent the components of the TFP indicator. According to the present development of the TFP indicator, it is not possible to unambiguously forecast the future trend.

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