• Typology and distribution of small farms in Europe: towards a better picture 

  Guiomar, N.; Godinho, S.; Pinto-Correia, T.; Almeida, M.; Bartolini, F.; Bezák, P.; Biró, M.; Bjørkhaug, H.; Bojnec, Š.; Brunori, G.; Corazzin, M.; Czekaj, M.; Davidova, S.; Kania, J.; Kristensen, S.; Marraccini, E.; Molnár, Z.; Niedermayr, J.; O'Rourke, Eileen; Ortiz-Miranda, D.; Redman, M.; Sipiläinen, T.; Sooväli-Sepping, H.; Šūmane, S.; Surová, D.; Sutherland, L. A.; Tcherkezova, E.; Tisenkopfs, T.; Tsiligiridis, T.; Tudor, M. M.; Wagner, K.; Wästfelt, A. (Elsevier B.V., 2018)

  The contribution of small farms to local food supply, food security and food sovereignty is widely acknowledged at a global level. In the particular case of Europe, they often are seen as an alternative to large and ...
• Modeling managed grassland biomass estimation by using multitemporal remote sensing data - a machine learning approach 

  Ali, Iftikhar; Cawkwell, Fiona; Dwyer, Edward; Green, Stuart (IEEE, 2017)

  More than 80% of agricultural land in Ireland is grassland, which is a major feed source for the pasture based dairy farming and livestock industry. Many studies have been undertaken globally to estimate grassland biomass ...
• Governance challenges of marine renewable energy developments in the US- creating the enabling conditions for successful project development 

  Lange, Marcus; Page, Glenn; Cummins, Valerie (Elsevier Ltd., 2018)

  Increasingly, marine renewable energy developments are viewed as an opportunity to meet climate change obligations, with the added benefit of powering the economy and the creation of jobs. Technical, economic and engineering ...
• Drawing lines on pages: remaking the Catholic parish maps of Ireland as a tidal public geography 

  O'Mahony, Eoin; Murphy, Michael J. (Geographical Society of Ireland, 2017-11)

  The Catholic parish is arguably the most fundamental unit of territory in Ireland. Over 1,300 of these units cover the entire land surface of the island. Their history and development tells the story of the accretion of ...
• Dynamic selection of environmental variables to improve the prediction of aphid phenology: A machine learning approach 

  Holloway, Paul; Kudenko, Daniel; Bell, James R. (Elsevier, 2018-02-19)

  Insect pests now pose a greater threat to crop production given the recent emergence of insecticide resistance, the removal of effective compounds from the market (e.g. neonicotinoids) and the changing climate that promotes ...

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