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Eleonora Grazioli, Cristiana Guerranti, Paolo Pastorino, Giuseppe Esposito, Emanuele Bianco, Emilio Simonetti, Simona Rainis, Monia Renzi and Antonio Terlizzi
Striped venus (Chamelea gallina) is one of the most important fish resources on the west coast of the Adriatic Sea. Recently, there has been a widespread die-off of C. gallina populations in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (northern Adriatic Sea, Italy), probably ...
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Hans P. Aubauer
This paper shows how the concept of the Ecological Footprint can be developed by incorporating the six procedures listed below, to create a single indicator of just distribution of the limited natural resources, between and within generations, and become...
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Yu Tian, Bingxi Liu, Yuandong Hu, Qing Xu, Ming Qu and Dawei Xu
Hemeroby is an integrated indicator used to measure the impact and degree of all human interventions on ecological components or ecosystems. The constant exploitation of resources is a strong interference of human beings to the natural environment. With ...
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Cornelius Chris Reynders,Harmony Musiyarira,Prvoslav Marjanovic
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In a semi-arid water scarce country like South Africa, the efficient use of limited water resources and measures to extend the service value of these resources is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development. The conventional supply-sided managem...
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Pieter van der Zwan
AbstractThe African continent contributes approximately 12% of the world?s oil production. Despite this wealth, many citizens of oil-rich African countries live in poverty, often because their governments do not collect sufficient compensation for the de...
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Won-Jun Park, Taehyoung Kim, Seungjun Roh and Rakhyun Kim
This study assessed the influence of matter discharged during the production (dry/wet) of recycled aggregate on global warming potential (GWP) and acidification potential (AP), eutrophication potential (EP), ozone depletion potential (ODP), biotic resour...
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Gricelda Herrera-Franco, Lady Bravo-Montero, Jhon Caicedo-Potosí and Paúl Carrión-Mero
The excessive use of energy from fossil fuels, which corresponds to population, industrialisation, and unsustainable economic growth, is the cause of carbon dioxide production and climate change. The Water?Energy?Food (WEF) nexus is an applicable concept...
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Janis Birkeland
Built environment design is implicated in virtually all socio-ecological sustainability problems. Nonetheless, paradoxically, construction will be essential to creating sustainability by increasing social and natural life-support systems. Given the rates...
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Chenda Deng and Ryan T. Bailey
Artificial recharge ponds have been used increasingly in recent years to store water in underlying aquifers and modify baseline groundwater gradients or alter natural hydrologic fluxes and state variables in an aquifer system. The number of constructed p...
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Steffen Lehmann
Beyond energy efficiency, there are now urgent challenges around the supply of resources, materials, energy, food and water. After debating energy efficiency for the last decade, the focus has shifted to include further resources and material efficiency....
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Tim Hess
The ?green? water footprint (GWF) of a product is often considered less important than the ?blue? water footprint (BWF) as ?green? water generally has a low, or even negligible, opportunity cost. However, when considering food, fibre and tree products, i...
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