From Map Follower to Navigator: Archetypes of Environmental Impact Assessment
ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) scholarship is commonly framed as a tension between efficiency and comprehensiveness paradigms. These paradigms describe a persistent tension but cannot explain how EIA operates through it. Drawing on social systems theory, this analysis traces that operation.
Kenneth Kang
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Coastal change in Southeast Asia from geological to contemporary timescales: a review. [PDF]
Kench PS.
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Emergency Response Capabilities of Institutions of Higher Education: A Case of a Developing Country
This study justifies its significance by addressing crucial gaps in knowledge concerning emergency response capabilities in higher education institutions, focusing specifically on the KNUST; ranked as the best university for quality education (SDG 4) by Times Higher Education in 2023.
Lyndon N. A. Sackey +6 more
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Microbial community shifts in deposits from the 2018 Palu-Donggala tsunami. [PDF]
Yap W +9 more
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ABSTRACT Sargassum inundation of Caribbean and American shorelines is a growing environmental hazard. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3) produced by decomposing Sargassum could be involved in airway obstruction and bronchial inflammation. The study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of exposure to H2S and NH3 gases emitted during Sargassum ...
Rishika Banydeen +9 more
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A dataset of coexisting <i>Sargassum</i> features and submesoescalar eddies near the south coast of the Dominican Republic in 2023. [PDF]
Jiménez-Durán I +4 more
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Using Landsat, Sentinel-1 and -2 and GEE to assess changes in wetland Ecosystem Functional Groups in the Maputaland Coastal Plain of South Africa. [PDF]
Apleni P +3 more
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This study documents the unseasonal and prolonged heavy rain events which occurred in southern China during April 2024. In this series of extreme rainfall events, Guangdong province recorded extreme rainfall exceeding 6‐sigma of climatology, with eleven cities reporting record‐breaking rainfall.
Wai‐Po Tse +2 more
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Remote Sensing Inversion of Full-Profile Topography Data for Coastal Wetlands Using Synergistic Multi-Platform Sensors from Space, Air, and Ground. [PDF]
Zhang J, Wang J, Dai Y, Miao Y, Li H.
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The winter 2023/2024 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal
From October 2023 to March 2024, the UK saw a succession of named storms and low‐pressure weather systems, leading to widespread exceptional river flows throughout. Peak flow records were broken in several catchments, but this event was most notable for its duration and spatial footprint, which resulted in major impacts.
Eugene Magee +8 more
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