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Climate change and its risk reduction by mangrove ecosystem of Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2010 Climate change is amongst the most dreaded problems of the new millennium. Bangladesh is a coastal country bounded by Bay of Bengal on its southern part and here natural disasters are an ongoing part of human life.
Barua, Prabal +2 more
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A perfect storm: An archaeological management crisis in the Mississippi River Delta [PDF]
, 2020 Engineered projects resulting in unintended consequences, coastal erosion, subsidence, and sea-level rise are rapidly destroying archaeological sites in the Mississippi River Delta (MRD).
Britt, Tad +4 more
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Justice‐centred climate change education and territory
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In a globalised world, education faces challenges that go far beyond professional training, where social responsibility and the inclusion of heterogeneous communities and territories in all levels of education have become a greater focus of the university and of scientific research, setting the stage for more inclusive public policies. Greater
Lennin Florez‐Leiva +3 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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Laboratory study on the effects of hydraulic and granulometric parameters on the response of granular soil to internal erosion [PDF]
, 2019 Erosion is a major environmental problem to agricultural land as well as to civil engineering infrastructures. Rainwater infiltration into granular soils can lead to the migration of fine particles by suffusion.
BENDANI, Karim +2 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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Self-stabilised fractality of sea-coasts through damped erosion [PDF]
, 2003 Erosion of rocky coasts spontaneously creates irregular seashores. But the geometrical irregularity, in turn, damps the sea-waves, decreasing the average wave amplitude.
A. Baldassarri +14 more
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The spread of non‐native species
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock +16 more
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Optimization of coastal land in Modung District, Bangkalan Regency as a conservation effort [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe coast of Modung District is one of the areas in the south of Bangkalan Regency that is vulnerable to coastal erosion. This study focuses on optimizing coastal land in the vulnerable Modung District of Bangkalan Regency to address coastal erosion ...
Wardhani Maulinna Kusumo +2 more
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Adaptation Strategies to Address Coastal Erosion/Flooding: A Case Study of the Communities in Bang Khun Thian District, Bangkok, Thailand [PDF]
Coastal erosion is a serious problem in Thailand nowadays. The impacts of coastal erosion on the flat and low-lying Gulf area are expected to be high. The sediment supply to the coasts in the Upper Gulf of Thailand, including Bang Khun Thian district in ...
Areeya Manasboonphemphool +1 more
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