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The Effect of SNAP Purchasing Power on Diet Quality

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits millions of eligible low‐income Americans by increasing access to food, helping to reduce food insecurity. Previous studies have documented that the geographical variation in local food prices leads to significant differences in SNAP's purchasing power.
Farah Khan, Augustine Denteh
wiley   +1 more source

How GeoAI Improves Tourist Beach Environments: Micro-Scale UAV Detection and Spatial Analysis of Marine Debris

open access: yesLand
With coastal tourism depending on clean beaches and litter surveys remaining manual, sparse, and costly, this study coupled centimeter-resolution UAV imagery with a Grid R-CNN detector to automate debris mapping on five beaches of Wonsan Island, Korea ...
Junho Ser, Byungyun Yang
doaj   +1 more source

An evaluation of peat loss from an Everglades tree island, Florida, USA [PDF]

open access: yesMires and Peat, 2014
The tree islands of the Everglades are considered to be biodiversity “hotspots”, where the majority of terrestrial species of the Everglades are found. Drainage for agricultural and urban development in the early 1900s has had a severe impact, converting
S. Aich   +3 more
doaj  

Mapping of Sicilian Pocket Beaches Land Use/Land Cover with Sentinel-2 Imagery: A Case Study of Messina Province

open access: yesLand, 2021
Pocket beaches (PBs) are among the most attractive tourist sites and economic development contributors in coastal areas; however, they are negatively impacted by the combined effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities.
Giovanni Randazzo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reconfiguring Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Response to Drought Risk: Evidence From the U.S. Broccoli Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Operational Wave System within the Monitoring Program of a Mediterranean Beach

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019
This work assesses the performance of an operational wave system in the Mediterranean Sea by comparing computed data with measurements collected at different water depths.
Andrea Ruju   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of beach nourishment and construction in Croatia

open access: yesGrađevinar, 2023
Beaches on the eastern Adriatic coast are the basis of Croatia’s tourism offering while also being under pressure from climate change. Data is necessary to manage beaches effectively, but data is lacking as well as the long awaited national strategy for ...
Tonko Bogovac   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

STRATEGY PLANNING : SHORE PROTECTION WORK FOR SANUR BEACH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Pengembangan pekerjaan perlindungan pantai untuk pantai Sanur memerlukan strategi perencanaan dengan demikian keseimbangan perlindungan pantai dan lingkungan dapat terjaga.
Pujianiki, Ni Nyoman
core   +1 more source

Thermo-Acidic Pretreatment of Beach Macroalgae from Rügen to Optimize Biomethane Production—Double Benefit with Simultaneous Bioenergy Production and Improvement of Local Beach and Waste Management

open access: yesMarine Drugs, 2015
Eutrophication is a phenomenon which can rapidly generate masses of marine macroalgae, particularly in areas with high nutrient pollution. Washed ashore, this biomass impairs coastal tourism and negatively affects the coastal ecosystem. The present study
Yann Nicolas Barbot   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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