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"Cost Effective Conservation Planning: Twenty Lessons from Economics" [PDF]
Economists advocate that the billions of public dollars spent on conservation should be allocated to achieve the largest possible social benefit. This is what we term “cost-effective conservation”-- a process that incorporates both benefits and costs ...
Joshua M.Duke +2 more
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi +4 more
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Biodiversity conservation gaps in Brazil: A role for systematic conservation planning
, 2018 A recent study aimed to estimate the biodiversity conservation gaps of the Brazilian protected area network by analysing more than 880 thousand records of species presence from online databases.
C. Fonseca, E. Venticinque
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Data‐Driven Bulldozer Blade Control for Autonomous Terrain Leveling
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A simulation‐driven framework for autonomous bulldozer leveling is presented, combining high‐fidelity terramechanics simulation with a neural‐network‐based reduced‐order model. Gradient‐based optimization enables efficient, low‐level blade control that balances leveling quality and operation time.
Harry Zhang +5 more
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Water Management and the Valuation of Indirect Environmental Services [PDF]
Comprehensive water basin and watershed planning and management require valuation of the intermediate ecological services provided to the water resources themselves.
Brooks Kaiser, James A Roumasset
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The simplification of planning legislation [PDF]
, 2001 This paper describes a proposal to extend the scope of planning permission in Great Britain so as to include virtually any works to listed buildings and scheduled monuments, demolition in a conservation area, and advertising.
Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Planning and Environmental Law Reform Working Group
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FiN‐Kiri: Fabric‐Based Inflatable Kirigami Actuator for Multimodal Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This study introduces a type of inflatable fabric‐based kirigami actuator capable of performing bending motion. The actuator is utilized as soft grippers, a crawling robot and a swimming robot. The crawling robot demonstrated extraordinary motion capabilities, such as moving forward, turning and navigating a narrow tunnel.
Yang Yu +12 more
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 Landscape design is a conservation planning process, described in the landscape ecology literature, proposed to rectify the knowledge and implementation gap in planning that have limited the effectiveness of many conservation planning efforts.
Anne M. Bartuszevige +3 more
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Future Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET) development [PDF]
, 2020 Ecotourism is an alternative form of tourism and is usually confused with natural and cultural tourism.CBET is fast becoming a popular biodiversity conservation tool that develops and benefits the local community.
Ibrahim, B. +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study presents a machine‐learning framework entitled MERLIN that infers the microanatomical localization of macrophages from single‐cell transcriptomic data in structured organs such as the kidney and brain. Applying this method to existing datasets from models of acute kidney injury and diabetic nephropathy uncovered spatially resolved insights ...
Junping Yin +18 more
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