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This study provides a scientific assessment of water scarcity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) city region and investigates its restrictive effects on urban economic development by quantifying economic loss caused by water scarcity based on an input&nd...
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Duane J. Rosa
This case study focuses on the economic and legal issues affecting a region or community as a result of potential railroad line abandonment. Railroad line abandonment, where rail service is being discontinued over a rail line or segment of a line, is bec...
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James Geisbush and Samuel T. Ariaratnam
The consequences of failures from large-diameter water pipelines can be severe. Results can include significant property damage, adjacent damage to infrastructure such as roads and bridges resulting in transportation delays or shutdowns, adjacent structu...
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Thazin Nwe, Robert J. Zomer and Richard T. Corlett
Protected areas are the backbone of biodiversity conservation but are fixed in space and vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change. Myanmar is exceptionally rich in biodiversity but has a small protected area system. This study aimed to assess the poten...
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Tahsin Tezdogan, Atilla Incecik, Osman Turan, Paula Kellett
Pág. 1659 - 1668
The slow steaming approach is increasing in popularity for commercial vessels, as it provides a method of reducing fuel use, and therefore operating costs, in the current economic climate. It is very important to be able to evaluate a ship's response to ...
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Kwanchai Pakoksung, Anawat Suppasri, Kazuyo Matsubae and Fumihiko Imamura
Understanding the impacts of tsunamis, especially in terms of damage and losses, is important for disaster mitigation and management. The aim of this study is to present our estimations of the potential losses from tsunami damage on Okinawa Island. We co...
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Rajaa Aitali, Maria Snoussi, Alexander S. Kolker, Bouchra Oujidi and Nadia Mhammdi
Healthy wetlands are among the most effective sinks for carbon on the planet, and thus contribute to mitigate climate change. However, in North Africa, coastal wetlands are under high pressure especially from urban sprawl and tourism development, due to ...
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Giuseppe Orlando and Roberta Pelosi
Within bank activities, which is normally defined as the joint exercise of savings collection and credit supply, risk-taking is natural, as in many human activities. Among risks related to credit intermediation, credit risk assumes particular importance....
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Serhii BURLUTSKI, Svitlana BURLUTSKA, Tamara BEREZIANKO
Pág. 413 - 420
An undoubted advantage of the diversified economies is their less sensitivity to dynamics fluctuations of local sectors and shock destructions. A downturn in one industry can be compensated by growth in another. Formed in Soviet times significant industr...
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Ranka Junge, Bettina König, Morris Villarroel, Tamas Komives and M. Haïssam Jijakli
Global environmental, social and economic challenges drive the need for new and improved solutions for food production and consumption. Food production within a sustainability corridor requires innovations exceeding traditional paradigms, acknowledging t...
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Pere Camprovin, Marta Hernández, Sonia Fernández, Jordi Martín-Alonso, Belén Galofré and José Mesa
The aquifer storage and recovery system of Sant Joan Despí (SJD) in the Llobregat Basin (Barcelona, Spain) has been injecting potable water since its construction in 1969. In order to increase the environmental and economic sustainability of the process,...
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Pere Camprovin, Marta Hernández, Sonia Fernández, Jordi Martín-Alonso, Belén Galofré, José Mesa
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The aquifer storage and recovery system of Sant Joan Despí (SJD) in the Llobregat Basin (Barcelona, Spain) has been injecting potable water since its construction in 1969. In order to increase the environmental and economic sustainability of the process,...
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Doina Pacurari,Mircea Muntean
The appreciation of the performances of the enterprise are made, as a rule, by ways of indicators which are of accounting type, the result of financial exercise, profit or loss, being mostly used. This result can be determined differently, according to a...
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Su-Hoon Choi, So-Yeon Park, Ung Yang, Beomseon Lee, Min-Soo Kim and Sang-Hyun Lee
Typhoons, which are a common natural disaster in Korea, have seen a rapid increase in annual economic losses over the past decade. The objective of this study was to utilize historical crop insurance records to predict fruit drop rates caused by typhoons...
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Daniel E. Martin, Roberto Rodriguez, Derek A. Woller, K. Chris Reuter, Lonnie R. Black, Mohamed A. Latheef, Mason Taylor and Kiara M. López Colón
Grasshoppers are integral parts of rangeland ecosystems but also have the potential to reach population densities high enough (outbreaks) to cause serious economic damage from forage loss and affect adjacent crops. The objective of this study was to inve...
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Junyang Li, Margherita Pettinato, Roberta Campardelli, Iolanda De Marco and Patrizia Perego
Large amounts of food waste are produced each year. These residues require appropriate management to reduce their environmental impact and, at the same time, economic loss. However, this waste is still rich in compounds (e.g., colorants, antioxidants, po...
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Arsalan Ahmed Othman, Ahmed K. Obaid, Diary Ali Mohammed Amin Al-Manmi, Ahmed F. Al-Maamar, Syed E. Hasan, Veraldo Liesenberg, Ahmed T. Shihab and Younus I. Al-Saady
Soil loss is one of the most important causes of land degradation. It is an inevitable environmental and socio-economic problem that exists in many physiographic regions of the world, which, besides other impacts, has a direct bearing on agricultural pro...
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Milad Bagheri, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Shattri Mansor, Latifah Abd Manaf, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat and Amin Beiranvand Pour
Since at least half of the world?s population resides and works within coastal land, the coastal zone processes and resource management is of great economic and social importance. One of the fundamental issues for coastal city planners, researchers, mana...
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Igor A. Chaves, Sean de Prazer, Barbara Jardim do Nascimento and Gregory Flowers
Not counting domestic dwellings, it has been estimated that in Australia alone, some tens of thousands of masonry buildings and structures have exceeded their design life, with many of these being at risk of partial (or worse) collapse from falling or di...
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D.V. Baldov,S.Yu. Petrova,A.A. Lebedev
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At present, the value of information is practically equal to the value of material objects. Modern industries operate with huge data streams, which are subject to increased security and reliability requirements. Likewise, the Nizhny Novgorod State Engine...
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