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Wetlands and Ecosystem Services

open access: yesEcology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2023
Wetland paddy agro-ecosystems are recognized as important human-made wetland systems. Realizing that paddy lands are important ecological systems, the state of Kerala in southern India passed an act in 2008 preventing their conversion to other uses. The
Manjula Menon, Girigan Gopi, Vipindas P
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Study on the Swelling Characteristics of the Offshore Natural Gas Hydrate Reservoir

open access: yesEntropy, 2023
The swelling characteristics of porous media in the offshore natural gas hydrate reservoir have an important effect on the stability of the reservoir.
Kefeng Yan   +5 more
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Markers of Ecological Conversion

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Teologiczne, 2021
Conversion is a transformation altering worldviews and identities through changed awareness of self, community (including religion, society, politics, economics and industry) and global ecology. The guiding principle of Laudato si’ by Pope Francis is contained in several points, “Everything is related”, relies on scientifical findings: life on Earth’s ...
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Church’s Response to the Ecological Crisis in a Small Country – the Case of the Roman Catholic Church in Latvia

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2020
Due to historical and contextual factors explained in this article, the Latvian Roman Catholic Church currently does not play any significant role in environmental protection or ecological crisis awareness building in the country.
Weronika Felcis, Elgars Felcis
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A quantitative framework to evaluate urban ecological resilience: broadening understanding through multi-attribute perspectives

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Intensive human and economic activities in urban areas have had adverse effects on local resources and ecology, leading to a decline in ecological resilience.
Yongyang Wang   +4 more
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Research on Forest Ecological Product Value Evaluation and Conversion Efficiency: Case Study from Pearl River Delta, China

open access: yesLand, 2023
Exploring an effective scientific method to measure the economic benefits of ecological products is of great significance for green development. Based on the InVEST model, this paper, taking the Pearl River Delta (PRD) as an example, evaluated the FEPs ...
Jingyu Wang, Wei Liu, Fanbing Kong
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Les trajectoires de conversion écologique face aux enjeux économiques et sociaux du « logement durable » en France

open access: yesVertigO, 2014
This paper deals with the careers of ecological conversion of the lifestyles in France through the case of “green building” projects and focuses on two target groups : the first-time home-buyer and the over-sixties, in three different regions.
Philippe Hamman   +2 more
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Patchy zooplankton grazing and high energy conversion efficiency: Ecological implications of sandeel behavior and strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sandeel display strong site-fidelity, and spend most of their life buried in the seabed. This strategy carries important ecological implications. Sandeels save energy when they are not foraging but in return are unable to move substantially and therefore
Mikael van Deurs, Asbjørn Christensen, Anna Rindorf
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Hacia una comprensión de la conversión ecológica

open access: yesFranciscanum, 2018
The encyclical Laudato si’ of Pope Francis has become one of the most broadcasted and commented documents of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Fundamentally because it is a critical and rigorous approach to the socio-environmental crisis that we are ...
Mauricio Rincón Andrade
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Results and discussion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this chapter, the interdisciplinary synthesis of the results of the BERAS project is presented and discussed. First, the effects of localisation and enhanced recycling on the ecological, economic and social dimensions of sustainability based on the ...
Kahiluoto, Helena, Vesala, Kari
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