RECREATIONAL AND AESTHETIC VALUES OF FOREST LANDSCAPES (RAFL): QUANTIFYING MANAGEMENT IMPACTS AND TRADE-OFFS WITH PROVISIONING AND REGULATORY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Cultural ecosystem services (CES), which encompass recreational and aesthetic values, contribute to human well-being and yet are often underrepresented in forest management planning due to challenges in quantifying these services.This study introduces the Recreational and Aesthetic Values of Forested Landscapes (RAFL) index, a novel framework combi

Abstract Climate-smart agriculture has emerged as a way of increasing food productivity, building resiliency to climate change and reducing Ketchup carbon emissions.Despite rapid technical advances, research on climate-smart agriculture has arguably under-theorized the socio-political processes that continue to marginalize vulnerable groups such as

This paper introduces a novel 3D NoC router that combines buffered and bufferless routing with approximate priority comparison when deflecting flits.Our proposal is a modification of an asymmetrical router that is buffered in the z dimension ports and bufferless in the x and y dimension ports.Flits that request output ports in the x and y dimension

At the end of XIX century futures exchange emerged, in the early 70-ies XX century - option exchange of financial derivatives.These exchanges gave a huge boost to the development of market of the operations with derivative financial instruments.In fact, in the 1970-1980-ies a new market segment was actually formed - the stock and financial derivati