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Paul J. Croft
The rapid rise and implementation of Smart Systems (i.e., multi-functional observation and platform systems that depict settings and/or identify situations or features of interest, often in real-time) has inversely paralleled and readily exposed the redu...
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Ashfaque Ahmed Jhatial, Iveta Nováková and Eirik Gjerløw
Alternative to traditional concrete, sustainable concrete reduces cement content, waste management issues, and CO2 emissions. To achieve sustainable concrete, waste materials can be used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to partially replace...
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Ioana Tanasa, Marius Cazacu and Brindusa Sluser
The monitoring and evaluation of air quality is a topic of great global interest as, with the decline of air quality, there are negative effects on human health and ecosystems. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the air quality over 11 years...
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Andreas Tsatsaris, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Panagiota Louka, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Demetrios E. Tsesmelis, Vassilios Krassanakis, George P. Petropoulos, Vasilis Pappas and Christos Chalkias
Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural processes and their impacts, i.e., geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic phenomena and hazards, such as drought, soil erosion, quantitative and quali...
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Na?Taki Osborne Jelks, Timothy L. Hawthorne, Dajun Dai, Christina H. Fuller and Christine Stauber
We utilized a participatory mapping approach to collect point locations, photographs, and descriptive data about select built environment stressors identified and prioritized by community residents living in the Proctor Creek Watershed, a degraded, urban...
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HÉCTOR MANUEL LENDO-HERNÁNDEZ, JOSÉ JAIME GUTIÉRREZ-MEZA, ADELA BUENO-DURÁN, ANTONIO R. MÁRQUEZ-GONZÁLEZ, MA. ELENA VELÁZQUEZ-MEZA, NAURÚ IDALIA VARGAS MAYA, BERNARDO FRANCO, VERÓNICA A. MONDRAGÓN-JAIMES
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Ellen Banzhaf, Henry N. Bulley, Justice Nana Inkoom and Sebastian Elze
This perspective paper highlights the potentials, limitations, and combinations of openly available Earth observation (EO) data and big data in the context of environmental research in urban areas. The aim is to build the resilience of informal settlemen...
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Yong-Beom Lee, Ji-Min Lee, Do-Haeng Hur, Jong-Hyeon Lee and Soon-Hyeok Jeon
Ethanolamine (ETA) is widely used to control the pH value in the secondary water of pressurized water reactors. However, it is necessary to consider other advanced amines which can replace ETA due to its serious human hazards and environmental treatment ...
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Hongyu Zhao, Xiaotao Hong, Juanfen Chai, Bo Wan, Kaichao Zhao, Cuihong Han, Wenjing Zhang and Huan Huan
Microplastics (MPs) are abundant in soil and the subsurface environment. They can co-transport with pathogens or act as vectors for pathogens, potentially causing severe ecological harm. The interaction of MPs with pathogens is an important topic. To des...
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Mohamed M. El-Attar, Hatem H. A. Ibrahim and Shereen F. A. Darwish
The disposal of waste plastic bags (WPB) represents an environmental challenge. Recycling (WPB) in the concrete industry would represent a huge environmental advantage if proven effective and economic. This study aims to investigate the viability of recy...
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Leonello Serva
This brief note aims to describe the history, from its early original idea, of the new macroseismic scale: The Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale 2007 (ESI 2007). It can be used together with other existing scales or alone when needed for measuring th...
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Praneeth Gurumurthy, Philip M. Orton, Stefan A. Talke, Nickitas Georgas and James F. Booth
Wind-induced sea level blowouts, measured as negative storm surge or extreme low water (ELW), produce public safety hazards and impose economic costs (e.g., to shipping). In this paper, we use a regional hydrodynamic numerical model to test the effect of...
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Khaled Galal Ahmed
The current ‘rigid’ construction systems and material of Emirati social housing leave little room for residents to undertake their desired adaptations and extensions of their turn-key houses, which have been designed, built and submitted to t...
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Khaled Galal Ahmed
The current ?rigid? construction systems and material of Emirati social housing leave little room for residents to undertake their desired adaptations and extensions of their turn-key houses, which have been designed, built and submitted to them by feder...
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Jian Jiao, Zihong Yang, Boyang Shi, Thomas Dogot, Hossein Azadi, Ke Xu and Changbin Yin
Exploring the construction of effective payment mechanisms for rural residents could break the dilemma of the value of a single investment by the government in environmental governance and promote the process of sustainable rural domestic sewage treatmen...
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Jialong Peng, Shaoqiang Wang, Lin Mu and Si Wang
With the increasing global reliance on maritime oil transportation, oil spills pose significant environmental hazards to coastal ecosystems. This study presents a comprehensive quantitative framework for assessing oil spill risks along the Jiaozhou Bay c...
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Xiazhong Zheng, Yu Wang, Yun Chen, Qin Zeng and Lianghai Jin
Improving the hazard identification ability of workers is an important way to reduce safety accidents at construction sites. Although previous studies have succeeded in improving hazard identification performance, an important gap is that they consider o...
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Shuai Li, Peiyuan Zou, Haoxuan Yu, Boyi Hu and Xinmin Wang
Despite China?s position as a global mining powerhouse, tens of thousands of small- and medium-sized mines (SM mines) within the country continue to pose potential safety hazards and environmental pollution risks. Only through the identification of suita...
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Sophia Mitkidou, Nikolaos Kokkinos, Elissavet Emmanouilidou, Yusuf Yohannah, Thomas Spanos, Christina Chatzichristou and Antoaneta Ene
The oil and gas industry is definitely considered the main contributor in the energy sector, acting as the lifeblood of our planet. However, environmental contamination by crude oil and petroleum products due to anthropogenic activities is of great conce...
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