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Jianxu Liu, Shutong Liu, Jiande Cui, Xuefei Kang, Qing Lin, Rossarin Osathanunkul and Changrui Dong
Improving agricultural energy efficiency is essential in reducing energy consumption and achieving agricultural sustainable development. This paper aims to measure the agricultural total-factor energy efficiency in China rather than the partial-factor en...
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Yidong Chen, Xiang Ji, Dongting Xu, Xi Zhou, Yujing Wang and Yixiao Hu
To enhance the continuity of character in the preservation of architectural heritage, this approach focuses on the horizontal self-similarity characteristics of architectural texture. A method using K-means and the Bhattacharyya approach for color select...
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Chaojiao Sun, Alistair J. Hobday, Scott A. Condie, Mark E. Baird, J. Paige Eveson, Jason R. Hartog, Anthony J. Richardson, Andrew D. L. Steven, Karen Wild-Allen, Russell C. Babcock, Dezhou Yang, Rencheng Yu and Mathieu Mongin
In times of rapid change and rising human pressures on marine systems, information about the future state of the ocean can provide decision-makers with time to avoid adverse impacts and maximise opportunities. An ecological forecast predicts changes in e...
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Stephan Schwartzman
In the mid-1970?s rubber tapper leaders Chico Mendes and Wilson Pinheiro reformulated strategic objectives of the rubber tappers? movement, from protesting and denouncing violent dispossession of families and deforestation to defending rubber tappers? fo...
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Andrea Braga, Hayley O?Grady, Turgay Dabak and Cecilia Lane
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are a concern for many cities managing stormwater through combined sewer systems, including the District of Columbia (DC). Advanced rainwater harvesting (ARH) is an innovative approach to managing stormwater and has the po...
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Nvenakeng Suzanne Awung and Rob Marchant
Local forest management is essential for enhancing the sustainability of both communities? livelihoods and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation (REDD+) projects. However, few studies have examined the impact of forest ownership and ...
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Dara M. Wald and Mark E. Hostetler
The conservation value of open space depends upon the quantity and quality of the area protected, as well as how it is designed and managed. This study reports the results of a content analysis of Florida county Land Development Regulations. Codes were r...
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Mirela Stefanica,Maria Vlavian-Gurmeza
In the last years, the tendency in the tourism industry was that of return towards nature and towards the authentic cultural values. Among all the forms of tourism, ecotourism distinguishes itself through the strongest connection with the natural and cul...
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Paul Andre DeGeorges and Brian Kevin Reilly
This is an historic overview of conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times through the present. It demonstrates that Africans practiced conservation that was ignored by the colonial powers. The colonial market economy combined with the hu...
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A. W. Satria, H. Wijayanti, W. Febrianti, M. H. A. Nur, A. Prasetya
Pág. 84 - 89
This stuy aims to determine the operational parameters of submerged biofilter and to develop a model that can be used to estimate the elimination rate of pollutant using aerob and anaerob reactors. The experiment was conducted with draining the wastewate...
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Toshiharu Kojima, Ryoma Shimono, Takahiro Ota, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Yasuhiro Hasegawa
The ecosystem services of forests, such as the water conservation function, are the combined results of diverse processes, and the modification of one part of a forest affects each ecosystem service separately via complex processes. It is necessary to de...
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Changhai Luo, Jingping Chen, Shuxia Guo, Xiaofei An, Yanxin Yin, Changkai Wen, Huaiyu Liu, Zhijun Meng and Chunjiang Zhao
There is an increasing demand for remote monitoring and management of agricultural machinery operation in conservation tillage. Considering the problems of large errors in detecting operation quality parameters, such as tillage depth and corn straw cover...
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Roshan Sharma, Bhagawat Rimal, Nigel Stork, Himlal Baral and Maheshwar Dhakal
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William F. Laurance
I present a brief synopsis of six key lessons provided by research on forest ecology and conservation, focusing particularly on the Malaysian state of Sabah in northeastern Borneo. These lessons are generalizable to other contexts, especially for tropica...
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Dina Mamdouh Nassar
Pág. 95 - 108
In Egypt, and especially in the old city of Alexandria, the battle between heritage conservation and real estate investment exists and raging. Are we obliged to keep old buildings although they have lost their original settings?The debate of either keepi...
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Diana Mitsova, Frank Wissinger, Ann-Margaret Esnard, Ravi Shankar and Peter Gies
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Bernard Lane
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This paper reviews how the principles of sustainable tourism have special relevance to thedevelopment of rural tourism, and examines how those principles can be translated into practice by the writingand implementing of regional sustainable tourism strat...
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Mauricio Alviar
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Marta Rudnicka-Bogusz
Barracks built at the turn of the 20th century and in the 1930s in garrison towns in the Western Borderlands of Poland serve as the focal point of their cultural landscape. Traditions, which grew around these structures during three independent periods (...
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Yuxiu Chen, Jian Yu, Li Li, Linlin Li, Long Li, Jie Zhou, Sang-Bing Tsai and Quan Chen
Green development has been of particular interest to a range of industries worldwide, one of which being the air transportation industry (ATI). The energy conservation and emission reduction (ECER) projects of the ATI have a huge impact on the local econ...
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