A Review on Water-Saving Agriculture in Europe

Systemic Signaling Under Water Deficit Condition and Its Exploitation in Water Saving Agriculture

A review on recent applications of brushless DC electric machines and their potential in energy saving

Electric motors are the largest consumer of world electric energy, consuming more than twice as much as lighting, the next largest consumer. Electric motors account for between 43 and 46% of all global electricity consumption approximately. They give rise to about 6 040 Mt of CO2 emissions. End‐users approximately spend USD 565 billion per year on electricity [1]. In recent years...

Water charging and water saving in agriculture. Insights from a Revealed Preference Model in a Mediterranean basin

The large irrigation expansion of the last 50 years has significantly increased pressures over water resources in EU Mediterranean basins. Under these circumstances water pricing has been especially encouraged, since within the EU policy context it is widely believed that higher water prices reduce water demand. This paper presents a Revealed Preference Model that provides a clear intuition of ...

Aging and saving in Europe

This paper analyzes the link between aging and saving starting from some stylized facts. Europe offers a wide spectrum of institutional arrangements in terms of pension systems and also very diverse financial and insurance markets. Recent changes, both in terms of pension reforms and in terms of market liberalization may provide explanations for the trends observed in household saving. While it...

Mechanisms underlying plant resilience to water deficits: prospects for water-saving agriculture.

Drought is one of the greatest limitations to crop expansion outside the present-day agricultural areas. It will become increasingly important in regions of the globe where, in the past, the problem was negligible, due to the recognized changes in global climate. Today the concern is with improving cultural practices and crop genotypes for drought-prone areas; therefore, understanding the mecha...