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Sharing Is Caring, but Is the Shore Cared for? The Sharing Paradox of the French Coast
Urban Science, 2020 Coastlines have long attracted industrial activities, services, housing, and tourism. At select geographic locations, harbors host port facilities and provide local economic growth opportunities.
Stephan J. Hauser, Catherine Roche
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A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes [PDF]
This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers, graphics, and computer models, have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and
de Freitas, Joana Gaspar
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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2018 The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful way to assess the sustainability of farm systems. In this paper we examine the transition of a Mediterranean agroecosystem from an organic farm system in ...
Lucía Díez +7 more
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The Early History of Environmental Economics [PDF]
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2014 AbstractThis article traces the history of economists’ treatment of environmental problems prior to the establishment of environmental economics as a separate field in the 1960s.
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Revista de Historia, 2015 The article exposes the methodology and results of the investigation and extension that have been realized in the subprogram for the integral management of Morote hydrographic basin, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Carlos Cruz Chaves
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Toxicidade e produção de maçãs no sul do Brasil Toxicity and apple production in southern Brazil
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2010 Explora as conexões entre uma polêmica apreensão de maçãs contaminadas no sul do Brasil, em 1989, e as reações da indústria da maçã às notícias da imprensa sobre o uso do agrotóxico nas plantações brasileiras. A problemática está inserida em análise mais
Jó Klanovicz
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Chemicals and Environmental History
Ambix, 2014 A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) showed that toxic chemical substances are responsible for 4.9 million deaths every year, i.e. 8.9 per cent of annual deaths. This report also highlights the fact that these figures are largely underestimated, given the significant knowledge gaps.
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AnglesThis article critically examines contemporary art installations by two British artists responding to two major memory sites of British imperial and national history: 1) Trafalgar Square, one of the biggest squares in central London, a former imperial ...
Laura Ouillon
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Rios nossos que estão no sertão! São Francisco e Parnaíba
Confins, 2015 The northeast region of Brazil has a modest hydrography. The majority of the rivers in this region are classified as temporary except the Maranhão rivers, which are mostly perennial.
Gercinair Silvério Gandara
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“Herbarium Polonorum” (“Heimatphotographie”)
Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2020 The main theme of the text is the wartime and postwar history of the area of the German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II, seen from the perspective of the production of landscape – with a special focus on the identity aspect, i.e.
Elżbieta Janicka
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