While renewable electricity is widely recognized as key to achieving climate goals, its broader contribution to a sustainable and just energy transition remains underexplored. Several studies assess the effect of renewables on individual outcomes, but few adopt an integrated approach that captures the multiple dimensions of environmental sustainability, social well-being, and economic development. This study addresses this gap...

Conservation translocations are becoming common conservation practice, so there is an increasing need to understand the drivers of plant translocation performance through reviews of cases at global and regional levels. The establishment of the Italian Database of Plant Translocation (IDPlanT) provides the opportunity to review the techniques used in 186 plant translocation cases performed in the last 50 years in the heart of t...

We analysed the invasion history of two North American macrophytes ( Elodea canadensis and E. nuttallii ) in Italy, through an accurate census of all available herbarium and field records, dating between 1850 and 2019, and a rich literature collection describing the initial introduction and naturalisation phase that supports the results obtained by the occurrence records. Elodea canadensis arrived in Italy before 1866 and had...