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Downscaling of environmental indicators: A review

Science of the Total Environment
Environmental indicators at different scales are important for environmental management, daily life, and scientific research. Because of the lack of statistics below a national scale for many environmental indicators, scholars have developed various downscaling methods to obtain finer-scale and diverse forms of data for different environmental ...
Meirong Su
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Urban indices as environmental noise indicators

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2011
Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyze the noise levels of an urban area by treating them as a function of several features resulting from block shapes and urban indices in a residential neighborhood of a medium sized Brazilian city. Inside this area a sample of 40 reference points was chosen for data collection and their noise levels ...
Léa Cristina Lucas de Souza, Mariene Benutti Giunta   +1 more
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Issues of scale for environmental indicators [PDF]

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 2001
The value of environmental indicators largely depends upon the spatial and temporal scale that they represent. Environmental indicators are dependent upon data availability and also upon the scale for which statements are required. As these may not match,
Alfred Stein
exaly   +2 more sources

Pesticide environmental indicators and environmental policy

Journal of Environmental Management, 2002
A current concern in many European countries is the environmental impact of agricultural pesticide usage and appropriate policy development to reduce impact. Currently, relatively hazardous pesticides that might be targeted for replacement by other products or management practices are not positively identified, with consequently few incentives for ...
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Vegetation as an indicator of environmental changes

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1983
Composition of the vegetation and the properties of its environment are related, as was shown by research. In these, mostly statistical-correlative studies, both the vegetation and some growth factors, such as plant nutrients and moisture supply were analyzed and studied on interdependence.At present the environmental conditions can be estimated in the
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Environmental policy, agri-environmental indicators and landscape indicators

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2003
Abstract Research for a concept of sustainable agriculture and for the sustainable use of agricultural landscapes are closely related to the development of an international acknowledged indicator framework for the analysis and valuation of the environmental situation by the OECD.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR BUSINESS

Eco-Management and Auditing, 1996
Environmental performance indicators are a vital step towards effective and verifiable reporting and strategy formation. Hence companies should measure their environmental performance and develop environmental performance indicators (EPIs) for managerial control, strategic advantages and performance reporting.
Young, C.W., Rikhardsson, Pall M.
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Spider webs as environmental indicators

Environmental Pollution, 2002
Analysis of spider webs from limestone arches in New South Wales, Australia showed levels of lead and zinc to be several times higher at Jenolan Caves than reference sites at Abercrombie and Wombeyan Caves. The high concentrations at Jenolan were attributed to emissions from motor vehicles that travel through the arch. Analysis of water-soluble ions in
G C, Hose, J M, James, M R, Gray
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Polychaetes as environmental indicators revisited

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2005
The utilization of polychaetes in descriptive ecology is reviewed in the light of recent research especially concerning the biota hard bottom environments. Polychaetes, often linked in the past to the concept of opportunistic species able to proliferate after an increase in organic matter, have played an important role especially with regard to ...
GIANGRANDE, Adriana, LICCIANO, Margherita, MUSCO, LUIGI   +2 more
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