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Integrated Community Onsite Sanitation System for Close Loop Faecal Management [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The achievement of safe sanitation access is about 7.42 % in 2018, that indicates high risk of faecal contamination from unmanaged onsite sanitation system and has not been fully supported by faecal sludge service.
Hastuti Elis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Costs of Government-Sponsored Agrarian Settlements in Brazilian Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Brazil has presided over the most comprehensive agrarian reform frontier colonization program on Earth, in which ~1.2 million settlers have been translocated by successive governments since the 1970's, mostly into forested hinterlands of Brazilian ...
A Brandão Jr   +54 more
core   +2 more sources

Study on Barriers of Water Salt Transfers in Earthen Sites by Plastic-Coated Sand

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2023
Under the action of unidirectional water migration, museum soil sites generally encounter erosion through dry cracking, salt enrichment, etc. In this paper, the earthen site of the Terra Cotta Warriors Museum of the First Emperor of Qin was used as the ...
Wen Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Study on Protective Reuse of Traditional Architecture in Lhasa [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Traditional Tibetan architecture in Lhasa has a unique position in the world. Under the special social background of economic development demand and tourism, it has gradually become a pillar industry, and how to rationally protect and reuse this ...
Qin Qing, Chen Yang, Zhang Haiyue
doaj   +1 more source

Granularity Optimization for Efficient Energy Consumption Monitoring in Subway Stations for Enhanced Energy Management [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
Efficient energy data management forms a critical foundation for unlocking the carbon reduction potential of subway systems, holding significant importance in advancing urban processes towards lowcarbon and clean environments.
Guan Bowen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making the case for the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency at the city scale

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2017
Global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and poverty must increasingly be tackled in cities. While cities can be significant contributors to climate change and resource scarcity, and face considerable risks as a consequence of these ...
David Dodman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feldspathic sandstone as an emerging soil stabilizer for aeolian sand in the Mu Us Sandy Land: insights into particle size distribution [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ
Stabilization of aeolian sand is essential for achieving desertification control, soil and water conservation, and agricultural development in sandy lands. Feldspathic sandstone is a soft clay rock widely found in the Mu Us Sandy Land.
Lu Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Applicability Analysis of Inspection and Monitoring Technologies in Wind Turbine Towers

open access: yesShock and Vibration, 2021
Wind turbines are one of the key systems in wind energy development. The wind tower supporting the whole wind turbine is a towering structure, which has been affected by installation, transportation, environment, and other factors.
Yanchao Yue   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social change, ecology and climate in 20th-century Greenland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Two great transitions, from seal hunting to cod fishing, then from cod fishing to shrimp, affected population centers of southwest Greenland during the20th century.
Hamilton, Lawrence C.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Optimization of the Seismic Performance of a Steel-Concrete Wind Turbine Tower with the Tuned Mass Damper

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
To optimize the seismic performance of a new type of steel-concrete tower, a 120 m steel-concrete composite tower model with a tuned mass damper (TMD) was constructed in ABAQUS for simulation analysis.
Yanchao Yue   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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