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Ecologies of education quality

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Accountability in education has prompted policy makers and practitioners to focus on data use for instructional and organizational decision-making. The popular media have seized on Value Added (VA) measures as a key type of data use for reforming U.S. schools. Among education researchers, however, there are both critics and proponents. We examined data
Beth Graue   +2 more
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Dynamic simulation of coastal wetlands for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay area based on multi-temporal Landsat images and FLUS model

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Coastal wetlands play a vital role in coastline protection. Coastal landscape of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has changed drastically. In order to explore the process and law of coastal landscape dynamics in GBA, in this research,
Hongjiang Guo   +4 more
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The keyword is quality not ecology [PDF]

open access: yesWIT Transactions on The Built Environment, Vol 86, 2006
The Netherlands has a good reputation abroad as a country of architecture. Many people admire the architecture of famous Dutch architects such as Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Neutelings Riedijk and Meijer and Van Schooten. In some recent designs by members of this conceptual-oriented school of architects, several efforts have been made to become more in ...
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Comparison of Thermal Seed Treatments to Control Snow Mold in Wheat and Loose Smut of Barley

open access: yesFrontiers in Agronomy, 2022
Due to increasing demands to reduce chemical plant protection products, including prophylactic chemical seed treatments, there is a renewed interest in thermal seed treatments for cereal crops.
Irene Bänziger   +6 more
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Ecological quality assessment: A framework to report ecosystems quality and their dynamics from reference conditions

open access: yes, 2023
International audienceWorldwide, ecosystems are suffering important taxonomic and functional modifications in response to anthropogenic disturbances, operating at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Grall, Jacques   +11 more
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Ecology and the Quality of Life in a Megalopolis

open access: yesОбщество: социология, психология, педагогика, 2020
The work discusses the perception and assessment of environmental factors of the quality of life in Novosibirsk by its residents. In the study the authors identified the subjective attitude of respondents to the environmental situation in the city. The environmental threat is seen by respondents as a danger of medium importance against the background ...
Mikhail Vasilyevich Melnikov   +2 more
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Developing an Enhanced Ecological Evaluation Index (EEEI) Based on Remotely Sensed Data and Assessing Spatiotemporal Ecological Quality in Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area, China

open access: yes, 2022
Ecological changes affected by increasing human activities have highlighted the importance of ecological quality assessments. An appropriate and efficient selection of ecological parameters is fundamental for ecological quality assessments.
Shanshan Feng, Fenglei Fan
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Water-Energy-Food system in typical cities of the world and China under zero-waste: Commonalities and asynchronous experiences support sustainable development

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Commonalities and asynchronous experiences of realizing zero-waste of water, energy, and food resources between the world and China have critical global importance to support sustainable development, especially for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay ...
Pan Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Progression Towards Ecological Quality Standards [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Law, 2005
Environmental law still lacks coherence in many respects. Two key areas of UK and EC law—water pollution control and biodiversity protection—are examined to see whether it is possible to adopt more common approaches. A key development in pollution control law was its redirection in the last twenty years from a largely reactive instrument towards one ...
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A social-ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing social considerations with an integrated understanding of the ecology of a region can
Pressey, Robert L.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

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