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The GPR survey method in combination with destructive testing methods for the hydraulic structures technical condition studying

Magazine of Civil Engineering
The study examined the technical condition of hydraulic structures (HS) to plan their reconstruction, restoration and development of protective measures.
Suprun Veronika, Kovalenko Ivan, Ustinova Viktoriya   +2 more
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Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China [PDF]

This paper uses provincial macro-data from the mid 1980s onwards to investigate the determinants of land-use choice in rural China, by paying particularattention to the decision to plant trees as competing with agriculture.
Sylvie Démurger, Weiyong Yang
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Policy options for afferorestation in Flanders [PDF]

This paper analyses current and alternative afforestation policy instruments in Flanders. First we select forest sites that maximize net social benefits given a constraint on the total area of new forests and then we select policy instruments that yield ...
Sandra Rousseau, Ellen Moons
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Simulation of the Hydrologic Effects of Afforestation in the Tacuarembo River Basin, Uruguay

, 2005
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used to simulate the hydrology of two small catchments in northern Uruguay. The modeling study was intended to complement a long-term field research project that is evaluating the hydrologic and water ...
von Stackelberg, Nicholas Olaf
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Afforestation Adoption by Eastern U.S. Cattle Producers [PDF]

, 2017
Beef cattle production is responsible for approximately 2.2% of total US GHG production. In some agroecosystems, afforestation has the potential to sequester more carbon than other pasture and rangeland management practices.
English, Burton C., Yu, T. Edward, Clark, Christopher D., Larson, James A., Lambert, Dayton M., Hellwinckel, Chad, Claytor, Hannah, Zhang, Jun, Jensen, Kimberly L.   +8 more
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CONTRIBUTION OF AFFORESTATION TO SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT IN UKRAINE [PDF]

This paper focuses on the establishment of forest plantations on bare lands and marginal agricultural lands: a multifunctional afforestation programme for Ukraine is elaborated.
Maria Nijnik, A. Nijnik, Arie Oskam
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Policy design and the optimal location of forests in Flanders [PDF]

This paper analyses the current Flemish afforestation policy and shows that this policy is likely to be non-optimal and can be improved. An important step in improving the afforestation policy in Flanders is the selection of the optimal location of a ...
Sandra Rousseau, Ellen Moons
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Afforestation and remote sensing

, 2000
In the strategic use of remote sensing for the afforestation purposes the focus is on regional to continental levels with equivalent mapping scales from 1:50000 to 1:5 million. Generic remote sesning methods can be applied for land cover mapping and land
Häme, Tuomas
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Administrative system of afforestation in the Czech Republic: A long journey to a new forest

This review uses a case study based on an executed afforestation project to comprehensively describe the administrative procedure regarding afforestation of agricultural land in the Czech Republic, Central Europe. We consider the official proceedings for
Josef Gallo, Jaroslav Jankovič, Hubert Hasenauer, Michal Pástor, Ivan Kuneš, Marcin Czacharowski, Martin Baláš, Igor Štefančík   +7 more
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Comparative analysis of the photosynthetic potential of new spring barley varieties in the arid climate zone of the Lower Volga region

Зерновое хозяйство России
Since the climatic conditions have become more arid in the Southern Federal District over the past thirty years, spring barley productivity has sharply reduced.
A. V. Guzenko, A. V. Solonkin, А. А. Dontsova   +2 more
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