The paper studies Europe's preparedness and readiness in the context of evolving multi-dimensional security challenges. Leveraging the newly augmented strategic readiness framework, we examine three selected strategic readiness dimensions - mobilisation, force structure and resilience - in...

Producer--scrounger models are used to explain the tactics of socially foraging animals where individuals can either search for their food (produce) or join the food discoveries of others (scrounge). However, the empirical testing of such models has generally been restricted to indoor aviary...

The ‘cascade model’ of ecosystem service generation and valuation highlights the links between biophysical aspects/biodiversity and human well-being, in particular for the case of marginal changes, but does not include societal processes. Services seem to flow effortlessly from ecosystems to...

One of the key challenges in designing agri-environmental schemes targeted at conservation is the determination of the amount of financial resources that should be allocated towards a particular aim such as the conservation of an endangered species. Economists can contribute to an answer by...