Effective management of ecosystem services requires understanding the biophysical relationships governing trade-offs, as well stakeholder preferences for trade-offs. However, useful tools to guide complex decision-making process are often lacking. This study demonstrates an approach that combines and economic models identify socially preferred solutions. We demonstrate in context dam-removal de...

An interactive Multilingual Access Gateway (iMAG) dedicated to a web site S (iMAG-S) is a good tool to make S accessible in many languages immediately and without editorial responsibility. Visitors of S as well as paid or unpaid post-editors and moderators contribute to the continuous and incremental improvement of the most important textual segments, and eventually of all. Pre-translations are...

Nowadays production system processes are undergoing sweeping changes. The trends include an increase in the number of product variants to be produced, as well as the reduction of the production’s lead time. These trends were induced by new devices of the industry’s 4.0, namely the Internet of Things and cyber physical systems. The companies have been applying intermittent production systems (jo...

Acknowledgements: * Gugl thanks Nick Baigent, Craig Brett, Phil Curry, Peter Kennedy, Shelly Lundberg, Hervé Moulin, David Scoones, Paul Schure and Linda Welling for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. Both authors thank Hervé Moulin and our discussant at the WEAI 84th conference in Vancouver, Jamie Woods, for their comments on the current version. ** This research was mad...