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Fuzzy approaches provide improved spatial detection of coastal dune EU habitats
Ecological InformaticsMapping 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 +9 more
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The Political Economy of Tourism: Introduction to the Special Collection
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Tourism is one of the fastest‐growing internationally traded service industries. The articles in this special collection examine the circumstances under which it can act as a driver of sustainable, equitably shared growth. The introduction argues that tourism offers a promising path to regional development—not only in southern Europe and the ...
Kira Gartzou‐Katsouyanni
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First records of the invasive plant Carpobrotus edulis from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
Historia Naturalis BulgaricaFirst observations in Bulgaria of Carpobrotus edulis from both sand dunes and coastal cliffs are presented in the current study. In 2024, first signs of naturalisation of C.
Chavdar Gussev +2 more
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Confins, 2008 Environmental impacts caused by the occupation of areas regulating the sand input to the coast line in the coastal plain of Caponga, Cascavel town, East Coast of Ceará.
Antonio Jeovah de Andrade Meireles
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COASTAL DUNES: A STUDY OF THE DUNES AT VERA CRUZ
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1957 Coastal dunes are formed when winds gather the dry sands from beaches and carry it inland. The repeated scouring of surface sand and its deposit in other areas does more to shape the diverse hillocks and depressions characteristic of certain coastal areas than any other physical factor. For fifty years we have been battling the sand dunes at Vera Cruz.
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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
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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth +3 more
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The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Cowling RM +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2017 Chiba Prefecture, Japan, lies very near Tokyo, the capital city of Japan. It borders the sea on three sides and is banded by coastal dunes. Several sake breweries are located near these dunes. Although there are records of sake brewing along the coast of
Korehisa Kaneko, Hajime Matsushima
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