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A Generic Approach to Creating a National Soil Security Strategy
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Soil is a living and non‐renewable resource that underpins our very existence. It produces our food, filters our water, stores vast amounts of carbon, cycles essential nutrients, and sustains the rich tapestry of biodiversity on which our planet depends.
Alex McBratney +21 more
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Exploring Design Dimensions in Flash-based Mass-memory Devices [PDF]
, 2009 Mission-critical space system applications present several issues: a typical one is the design of a mass-memory device (i.e., a solid- state recorder).
Caramia, M. +4 more
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Flash flood detection via copula-based intensity–duration–frequency curves: evidence from Jamaica [PDF]
Extreme rainfall events frequently cause hazardous floods in many parts of the world. With growing human exposure to floods, studying conditions that trigger floods is imperative.
Spencer, Nekeisha +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa's Climate Change Act 22 of 2024 was enacted amid escalating climate risk, entrenched inequality, carbon‐intensive development, and uneven state capacity. This article evaluates the Act at the level of policy design rather than implementation outcomes.
Jacob Kwakye
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Mediterranean extreme floods and flash floods
, 2016 The Mediterranean area is particularly exposed to flash floods. Floods are weather-related hazards and their patterns are likely to be significantly affected by climate change. Floods are already the most frequent and among the costliest and deadliest natural disasters worldwide (Munich RE, NatCat Service; Swiss RE, 2015).
Gaume, Eric +5 more
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, 1927 Text of Arkansas Gov. John E. Martineau's speech, "The Mississippi flood", delivered at the Governors' Conference at Mackinac Island, July 25, 1927, and later published by the Arkansas Flood Control Association, Little Rock.
Martineau, John E. (John Ellis), 1873-1937
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Flood modelling using data available on the Internet [PDF]
, 2011 Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-102).The aim of this study was to determine if sufficient data at no charge is available on the Internet to use as input to a free and open source hydrological model for use in a flood monitoring system. As such,
Pretorius, M J
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Flood Hazard Assessment Using Weather Radar Data in Athens, Greece
Remote SensingWeather radar plays a critical role in flash flood forecasting, providing an effective and comprehensive guide for the identification of possible flood-prone areas.
Apollon Bournas, Evangelos Baltas
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Flash-memories in Space Applications: Trends and Challenges [PDF]
, 2009 Nowadays space applications are provided with a processing power absolutely overcoming the one available just a few years ago. Typical mission-critical space system applications include also the issue of solid-state recorder(s).
Caramia, M. +4 more
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