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Mario V Balzan

Senior Lecturer, Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology
Verified email at mcast.edu.mt
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Will climate mitigation ambitions lead to carbon neutrality? An analysis of the local-level plans of 327 cities in the EU

…, K Rižnar, M Matosović, MV Balzan, M Smigaj… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Following this introduction, a description of the city sample, M-LCPs data collection and
analytical framework is provided in Section 2. Results on types of M-LCPs, energy and climate …

[HTML][HTML] Dedicated versus mainstreaming approaches in local climate plans in Europe

…, A Flamos, NA Spyridaki, MV Balzan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cities are gaining prominence committing to respond to the threat of climate change, eg, by
developing local climate plans or strategies. However, little is known regarding the …

[HTML][HTML] How are cities planning to respond to climate change? Assessment of local climate plans from 885 cities in the EU-28

…, BI Ioannou, A Flamos, NA Spyridaki, MV Balzan… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean temperature rise this century to well below 2
C above pre-industrial levels. This target has wide-ranging implications for Europe and its …

The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

…, GKS Andersson, JD Asís, S Aviron, MV Balzan… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key
aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement of crop fields and …

Island ecosystem services: insights from a literature review on case-study island ecosystem services and future prospects

MV Balzan, M Potschin-Young… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Balzan was supported by a travel grant awarded by the Sub-Global Assessment Network
(http://www.ecosystemassessments.net). Marion Potschin’s contribution to this work was partly …

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats: A SWOT analysis of the ecosystem services framework

…, H Baral, J Zähringer, E Carter-Silk, MV Balzan… - Ecosystem …, 2016 - Elsevier
The ecosystem services concept (ES) is becoming a cornerstone of contemporary sustainability
thought. Challenges with this concept and its applications are well documented, but …

Augmenting flower trait diversity in wildflower strips to optimise the conservation of arthropod functional groups for multiple agroecosystem services

MV Balzan, G Bocci, AC Moonen - Journal of insect conservation, 2014 - Springer
… crop (size 10 × 4 m) and an adjacent flowering strip plot (size 10 × 2 m). Soil steaming was
… Each plot was separated by a distance of 8 m from other adjacent plots and inter-plot area …

A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland

…, SG Potts, M Albrecht, MV Balzan… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification and associated loss of high‐quality habitats are key drivers of
insect pollinator declines. With the aim of decreasing the environmental impact of agriculture, …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the capacity and flow of ecosystem services in multifunctional landscapes: Evidence of a rural-urban gradient in a Mediterranean small island state

MV Balzan, J Caruana, A Zammit - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
… The R 2 has a “marginal” (R 2 m ) and a “conditional” (R 2 c ) component to explain the
variance of the fixed effects only (R 2 m ) or by the entire model consisting of both the random …

Utilisation of plant functional diversity in wildflower strips for the delivery of multiple agroecosystem services

MV Balzan, G Bocci, AC Moonen - … Experimentalis et Applicata, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… (4 × 22 m), divided into two subplots (4 × 10 m) planted with … The two subplots were separated
by a wildflower strip (4 × 2 m… distances of 1.5 m between rows and 0.8 m between plants …