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Anthropogenic interferences through various intensive social-economic activities within construction land have induced and strengthened the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects in global cities. Focused on the relative heat effect produced by different social-
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The Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, located in Iceland, is a combined heat and power double-flash geothermal plant with an installed capacity of 303.3 MW of electricity and 133 MW of hot water.
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Seeing environmental injustices: the mechanics, devices and assumptions of environmental sustainability indices and indicators [PDF]
At the heart of any colonization project, and therefore any move to de-colonize, are ways of seeing nature and society, that then allow particular ways of governing each. This is plainly visible in a number of tools that exist to measure progress towards (or regress from) environmental sustainability.
Marina Requena-i-Mora, Dan Brockington
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Environmental heterogeneity: Anuran diversity in homogeneous environments
The northwestern region of São Paulo was extensively deforested during the agricultural expansion in the last century and only small fragments of the original vegetation cover remained.
Rodrigo Augusto Silva +2 more
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Historical Analysis of EPI in Colombia (2006-2014): Challenges on Environmental Information
The use of environmental indicators has been established as a way of addressing different variables and objects of analysis, including the complexity of biodiversity and ecosystems along with human wellbeing.
Ana María González +1 more
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Climate change and environmental pollution are considered to be among the main challenges faced by the modern world. The growth of environmental awareness and the adoption of a pro-environmental approach are considered to be the key megatrends with the ...
Alina Matuszak-Flejszman, Beata Paliwoda
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Introduction: Bird populations reflect the influence of major environmental changes, and the analysis of their long-term population trends concerning species-specific ecological traits can provide insight into biologically relevant impacts of such ...
Jiří Reif +6 more
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Regardless of their ecological importance, riparian forest strips are frequently suppressed to allow greater expansion of arable and urban areas. Agroforestry might be an effective alternative to recompose riparian forests.
Fabiana Marise Pulitano +3 more
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SAFA FAO as an assessment tool for family farming under the sustainability bias
The use of Rapid Assessment Protocols can characterise environmental problems such as the degradation of river sources, help understand the socio-environmental scenario of rural communities, and contribute to a more in-depth characterisation of the ...
Juliano de Oliveira +2 more
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Environmental Indicators – Agri-Environmental Indicators
close relation. This means that policies related to the economy and the environment cannot be handled without each other. The United Nations Conference (Stockholm, 1972) was the first global conference to signal that environment concerns have increasingly become subject of mainstream socio-economic policies. The process started in the Seventies, laying
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