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An evaluation of coastal sand dune flora of Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu, India: perspectives for conservation and management

Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes
Most of the sand dunes close to the Cuddalore coast of India have been destroyed due to human pressure. The remaining coastal sand dune (CSD) is under extreme threat due to unplanned development.
M. Anbarashan, N. Balachandran, R. Mathevet, N. Barathan, P. Uma Maheswari   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medium and large sized mammal assemblages in coastal dunes and adjacent marshes in southern Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v35i1.11705

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2012
This paper presents data on species composition and use of habitat of medium and large sized mammal assemblages in a coastal dunes segment and adjacent marshes at Rio Grande municipality, southern Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil.
Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Fernando Marques Quintela, Eduardo Resende Secchi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity climate change impacts report card technical paper:10. Implications of climate change for coastal and inter-tidal habitats in the UK [PDF]

, 2015
Executive summary - Coastal habitats are complex, dynamic and interdependent. They are important in providing sea defences, areas for recreation, biodiversity and a range of other ecosystem services.
Davy, Anthony J., Grant, Alastair, Lawrence, Peter J., Mossman, Hannah L.   +3 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Fuzzy approaches provide improved spatial detection of coastal dune EU habitats

Ecological Informatics
Mapping habitats on coastal dunes, crucial yet highly vulnerable ecosystems, requires objectivity and repeatability, which are still lacking in the implementation of the Habitats Directive.
Emilia Pafumi, Claudia Angiolini, Giovanni Bacaro, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Tiberio Fiaschi, Duccio Rocchini, Simona Sarmati, Michele Torresani, Hannes Feilhauer, Simona Maccherini   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Cowling RM, Cawthra H, Privett S, Grobler BA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Warmer Temperature and Spatiotemporal Dynamics during Primary Succession on Tropical Coastal Dunes. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2022
Martínez ML, Pérez-Maqueo O, Vázquez G, Landgrave R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vegetation restoration plan, New Plymouth Fitzroy to Bell Block coastal walkway extension [PDF]

, 2011
In 1999, the New Plymouth District Council began construction of its award winning coastal walkway. Along with providing an area for recreation, this new walk and cycle path serves as an alternate route for commuting along the city away from arterial ...
Clarkson, Bruce D., Coleman, Emma J., Cornes, Toni S.   +2 more
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Hurricane‐induced risk contagion in commercial real estate: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how hurricane‐induced destruction affects the prices of nearby undamaged commercial real estate properties, using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Using Real Capital Analytics transaction records spatially merged with Federal Emergency Management Agency building‐level damage data, we empirically employ a difference ...
Lu Fang, Lingxiao Li, David Scofield, Abdullah Yavas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source