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Karina Angélica García-Pardo, David Moreno-Rangel, Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo and José Roberto García-Chávez
The validated influence of urban biophysical structure on environmental processes within urban areas has heightened the emphasis on studies examining morphological patterns to determine precise locations and underlying causes of urban climate conditions....
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Andrea Ajmar, Alessandro Annunziato, Piero Boccardo, Fabio Giulio Tonolo and Annett Wania
Satellite-based Emergency Mapping (SEM) mechanisms provide information for emergency response in relation to different types of disasters, including tsunamis, based on the analysis of satellite imagery acquired in the aftermath of an event. One of the ma...
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Còssima Cornadó, Sara Vima-Grau, Pilar Garcia-Almirall, Angel Uzqueda and Mireia de la Asunción
The promotion of rehabilitation is an urgent necessity in today?s consolidated cities, both due to the need to update their buildings to achieve habitability and safety standards that are required nowadays, as well as to stop the deterioration of buildin...
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Kateryna Fen,Yevheniia Skljar,Alla Chykurkova,Kateryna Nakonechna,Nataliya Sokrovolska
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Narcisa Gabriela Pricope and Greer Shivers
Flood mitigation in low-gradient, tidally-influenced, and rapidly urbanizing coastal locations remains a priority across a range of stakeholders and communities. Wetland ecosystems act as a natural flood buffer for coastal storms and sea level rise (SLR)...
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Begoña De la Fuente and Pieter S. A. Beck
The expansion of invasive alien species is considered a major threat to forest ecosystems and biodiversity. Their potential impacts range from local changes in species composition to wider-scale effects on forest habitat and landscape functioning, althou...
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Chuan-Zheng Yuan and Xiang-Rong Wang
Industrial activities have raised widespread concerns about groundwater pollution and human health. Shanghai?s industrial land has been polluting the groundwater for more than 30 years; however, it is not clear whether it poses a risk to human health. Th...
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Carlos Arturo Aguirre-Salado, Liliana Miranda-Aragón, Marín Pompa-García, Humberto Reyes-Hernández, Carlos Soubervielle-Montalvo, Jorge Alberto Flores-Cano and Heriberto Méndez-Cortés
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Steven Farber, Maria Grandez
The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is in the process of implementing a wide array of transit expansion projects. Despite being an important evaluator of transit efficacy, accessibility is not a typical variable included in the business cases of the lo...
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Derek Jin-Uk Marchant, Alondra García Peña, Mihai Tamas and Julien J. Harou
Agriculture employs more Yemenis than any other sector and spate irrigation is the largest source of irrigation water. Spate irrigation however is growing increasingly difficult to sustain in many areas due to water scarcity and unclear sharing of water ...
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Derek Jin-Uk Marchant, Alondra García Peña, Mihai Tamas and Julien J. Harou
Agriculture employs more Yemenis than any other sector and spate irrigation is the largest source of irrigation water. Spate irrigation however is growing increasingly difficult to sustain in many areas due to water scarcity and unclear sharing of water ...
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Angeliki Mentzafou, Yiannis Panagopoulos and Elias Dimitriou
Water quality indices that describe the status of water are commonly used in freshwater vulnerability assessment. The design of river water quality monitoring programs has always been a complex process and despite the numerous methodologies employed by e...
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Sarah A. Loos
Terrestrial and freshwater priority areas for conservation were identified using Marxan software as part of the Nature Conservancy of Canada?s Central Interior Ecoregional Assessment. Several different scenarios were examined for both the freshwater and ...
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Yang Liu, Huajun Zhang, Yu Zhan, Kunxiang Deng and Liangzhi Dong
Cruise ships are large and complex, and it is difficult to manually make a plan to evacuate people to safe areas in a short time. Evacuation time and personnel safety are both important for emergency evacuation. This paper proposes an evacuation strategy...
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Won Seok Jang, Bernard Engel, Jon Harbor, Larry Theller
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Groundwater management and protection has been facilitated by computational modeling of aquifer vulnerability and monitoring aquifers using groundwater sampling. The DRASTIC (Depth to water, Recharge, Aquifer media, Soil media, Topography, Impact of vado...
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Won Seok Jang, Bernard Engel, Jon Harbor and Larry Theller
Groundwater management and protection has been facilitated by computational modeling of aquifer vulnerability and monitoring aquifers using groundwater sampling. The DRASTIC (Depth to water, Recharge, Aquifer media, Soil media, Topography, Impact of vado...
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Hannah L Horn
The Nature Conservancy of Canada used an expert-driven approach to incorporate multiple animal species into an ecoregional assessment for the purpose of conservation planning in the Central Interior of British Columbia. This method has been applied in 14...
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Yuqing Zhong, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Yanfei Yang and Minghui Xue
Mountainous cities face various land use challenges, including complex topography, low land use efficiency, and the insufficient control of land use in small-scale areas at the urban fringe. Considering population changes, environmental conservation, and...
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Samantha L. Eaves, Garrett Staines, Genevra Harker-Klime?, Margaret Pinza and Simon Geerlofs
Uncertainty surrounding the potential environmental impacts of marine energy (ME) has resulted in extensive and expensive environmental monitoring requirements for ME deployments. Recently, there have been more ME deployments and associated environmental...
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Mohammad Ashari Dwiputra, Adib Mustofa, Budhi Agung Prasetyo
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Mangrove forests are one of the coastal ecosystems that are under pressure due to antrophogenic activities, including land conversions to fishponds or aquaculture. On the other hand, the needs for seafood products from these aquaculture activities tend t...
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