PUBLICATION | 2014 Structural Patterns of the Bioeconomy in the EU Member States – a SAM approach The concept of 'bioeconomy' is gathering momentum in European Union (EU) policy circles as a sustainable model of growth to reconcile the goals of continued wealth generation and employment with bio-based sustainable...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Revisiting Decoupled Agricultural Policies in CGE frameworks: Theory and Empirics The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is moving away from coupled payments towards an increasing emphasis on decoupled payments. However current CGE models to study effects of decoupled...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Adult Participation in Lifelong Learning. The impact of using a 12-months or 4-weeks reference period. Technical briefing. This technical briefing deals with adult participation in lifelong learning. In particular, it focuses on the implications associated to the use of different statistical sources (LFS, AES/CVTS and PIAAC), characterized...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Evaluating the macroeconomic impacts of bio-based applications in the EU In 2012, the European Commission (EC) launched the Bioeconomy Strategy and Action Plan with the objective of establishing a resource efficient and competitive society that reconciles food security with the sustainable use...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Modelling the Common Agricultural Policy with the Modular Agricultural GeNeral Equilibrium Tool (MAGNET). Effects of the 2014-2020 CAP financial agreement on welfare, trade, factor and product markets This JRC report presents methodological development of the Modular Applied GeNeral Equilibrium Tool (MAGNET), a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, for representing the Common Agricultural...
PUBLICATION | 2014 JRC ongoing activities for the improvement of Data Quality and Harmonization in LCI datasets and databases the availability of consistent, harmonized and quality assured datasets and databases, is deemed as one of the most important factors for the robustness of LC-based studies and methodologies. The European Commission in the last decade...
PUBLICATION | 2014 The EU Regional Human Development Index This report follows from a project entitled “Regional Human Development” on request of the Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) of the European Commission. The objective of the project was to develop...
PUBLICATION | 2014 From Remotely Sensed Vegetation Onset to Sowing Dates: Aggregating Pixel-Level Detections into Village-Level Sowing Probabilities Monitoring the start of the crop season in Sahel provides decision makers with valuable information for an early assessment of potential production and food security threats. Presently, the most common...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Land use impact assessment in the construction sector: an analysis of LCIA models and case study application Purpose: Land use is a potentially important impact category in LCA studies of buildings. Three research questions are addressed in this paper: (1) Is land use a decisive...
PUBLICATION | 2013 Análisis cualitativo de inventarios de tecnologías bioenergéticas de la base de datos europea ELCD The European Reference Life-Cycle Database (ELCD) has been developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) and provides core Life Cycle Inventory...
