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Study on the Construction of Assessment Mechanism Based on Eco-Environment Quality Improvement Targets [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The environmental protection target responsibility system and the appraisal system is a major measure in our country’s environmental protection system.
Hao Chunxu, Ge Chazhong, Qin Jinglan, Zhou Quan, Peng Chen, Guo Xueyan, Liang Zhuming, Qu Aiyu, Li Na, Dong Zhanfeng, Hu Rui   +10 more
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Mexico City—Ambitions and Challenges of Integrated Risk Management in a Fractured Urban Planning Context

Earth Science, Systems and Society, 2022
Among the growing number of megacities, Mexico City stands out for its size and population, but also for its challenges with respect to environmental risk management, fractured governance and marked contrasts in urban conditions.
Soledad Garcia Ferrari, Emma R. Morales, Amelia A. Bain   +2 more
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Effectiveness of protection areas in safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet Autonomous Region

Scientific Reports, 2022
The Tibet Autonomous Region of China constitutes a unique and fragile ecosystem that is increasingly influenced by development and global climate change. To protect biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet, the Chinese government established a system
Kaipeng Xu, Xiahui Wang, Jinnan Wang, Jingjing Wang, Rongfeng Ge, Rensheng Tian, Huixia Chai, Xin Zhang, Le Fu   +8 more
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Learning Lessons for Evaluating Complexity Across the Nexus: A Meta-Evaluation of Environmental Projects

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2020
Background: A major gap in environmental policy making is learning lessons from past interventions and in integrating the lessons from evaluations that have been undertaken. Institutional memory of such evaluations often resides externally to government,
William Robert Sheate, Clare Twigger-Ross, Liza Papadopoulou, Rolands Sadauskis, Owen White, Paula Orr, Richard Eales   +6 more
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Mapping the functional connectivity of ecosystem services supply across a regional landscape

eLife, 2022
Sustainably managing multifunctional landscapes for production of multiple ecosystem services (ES) requires thorough understanding of the interactions between ES and the ecological processes that drive them. We build upon landscape connectivity theory to
Rachel D Field, Lael Parrott
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Particle Size Distribution and Depth to Bedrock of Chinese Cultivated Soils: Implications for Soil Classification and Management

Agronomy, 2023
Although a number of studies have provided information on soil texture, soil classification, and depth to bedrock throughout China, few studies have combined this information, which is the basis for agricultural field management.
Xiaoning Zhao, Wei He, Lihua Xue, Feng Chen, Pingping Jia, Yi Hu, Kazem Zamanian   +6 more
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Gestão de bacias hidrográficas na perspectiva espacial e socioambiental

Economía, Sociedad y Territorio, 2020
The study aimed to methodologically subsidize the socioenvironmental analysis of river basins, based on the use of secondary social, economic and environmental data in the Una river basin, Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brasil.
Elfany Reis do Nascimento Lopes, José Carlos de Souza, José Luiz Albuquerque Filho, Roberto Wagner Lourenço   +3 more
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Citizen involvement in flood risk governance: flood groups and networks

E3S Web of Conferences, 2016
Over the past decade has been a policy shift withinUK flood risk management towards localism with an emphasis on communities taking ownership of flood risk. There is also an increased focus on resilience and, more specifically, on community resilience to
Twigger-Ross Clare, Orr Paula, Brooks Katya, Saduaskis Rolands   +3 more
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Deciphering green infrastructure patterns in Eastern Europe: focus on Bucharest, Romania and Chisinau, Republic of Moldova [PDF]

Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 2023
This comparative study aims to test the hypothesis according to which environmental awareness of planners is crucial to sustainable cities with a healthy and well connected green infrastructure able to provide ecosystem services.
Alexandru-Ionuț PETRIȘOR, Olga HAREA, Antonio-Valentin TACHE, Angela MUNTEANU, Oana-Cătălina POPESCU, Diana ANDRONOVICI, Liliana Elza PETRIȘOR   +6 more
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Environmental Fragility Zoning Using GIS and AHP Modeling: Perspectives for the Conservation of Natural Ecosystems in Brazil

Conservation, 2022
The degradation of natural ecosystems triggers global environmental, economic, and social problems. To prevent this, it is necessary to identify the aptitude of priority areas for conservation or use by considering land fragility from multiple ...
Luciano Cavalcante de Jesus França, Luis Filipe Lopes, Marcelino Santos de Morais, Gerson dos Santos Lisboa, Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha, Vicente Toledo Machado de Morais Junior, Reynaldo Campos Santana, Danielle Piuzana Mucida   +7 more
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