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Seasonal Variation in Groundwater Quality of Yavatmal District, India

E-Journal of Chemistry, 2011
Seventy samples of groundwater were collected from different parts of Yavatmal District, India and analyzed. The results of this analysis were compared with the WHO water quality standards.
P. N. Rajankar, D. H. Tambekar, S. R. Wate   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Power System Resilience to Extreme Weather: Fragility Modeling, Probabilistic Impact Assessment, and Adaptation Measures

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2017
Historical electrical disturbances highlight the impact of extreme weather on power system resilience. Even though the occurrence of such events is rare, the severity of their potential impact calls for 1) developing suitable resilience assessment ...
M. Panteli, C. Pickering, S. Wilkinson, R. Dawson, P. Mancarella   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health Impact Assessment [PDF]

Health Policy and Planning, 1999
There is growing concern about the environmental, social and health consequences of development projects. Environmental impact assessment (EIA), which aims to address this concern, is often conducted with little input from the health sector. Quantifying the health benefits and risks of a project or policy requires an innovative synthesis of socio ...
openaire   +2 more sources

A taste of the new ReCiPe for life cycle assessment: consequences of the updated impact assessment method on food product LCAs

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2019
Recently, an update of the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method ReCiPe was released: ReCiPe 2016. The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of using this update instead of the previous version: ReCiPe 2008.
E. Dekker, M. Zijp, M. van de Kamp, E. Temme, R. van Zelm   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Environmental impacts of hydropower plants in Brazil: an identification guide

Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2022
This paper presents a guide for identifying the environmental impacts of hydroelectric enterprises. The qualitative research used the following methods: case studies, systematic literature review (SLR), content analysis, and consultation with expe ts ...
Fernanda Aparecida Veronez, Fabrício Raig Dias Lima , Ghislain Mwamba Tshibangu   +2 more
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Quantifying synergies and trade-offs in the global water-land-food-climate nexus using a multi-model scenario approach

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
The human-earth system is confronted with the challenge of providing a range of resources for a growing and more prosperous world population while simultaneously reducing environmental degradation.
Jonathan C Doelman, Felicitas D Beier, Elke Stehfest, Benjamin L Bodirsky, Arthur H W Beusen, Florian Humpenöder, Abhijeet Mishra, Alexander Popp, Detlef P van Vuuren, Lotte de Vos, Isabelle Weindl, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Tom Kram   +12 more
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Age, growth, and recruitment patterns of juvenile ladyfish (Elops sp) from the east coast of Florida (USA) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2015
Ladyfish (Elops sp) are a common and economically valuable coastal nearshore species found along coastal beaches, bays, and estuaries of the southeastern United States, and subtropical and tropical regions worldwide.
Juan C. Levesque
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A Coupled Hydro‐Mechanical Modeling Framework to Concurrently Simulate Coal Seam Gas Induced Subsidence and Groundwater Impacts

Water Resources Research
Land subsidence has been extensively studied and modeled in the context of conventional petroleum or water extraction. New challenges arise to model subsidence caused by coal seam gas (CSG) depressurization. CSG‐induced subsidence is a result of multiple
Tao Cui, Gerhard Schoning, Mark Gallagher, Mohammad Ali Aghighi, Sanjeev Pandey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmentally relevant concentrations of antidepressant mirtazapine impair the neurodevelopment of zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023
Mirtazapine is a commonly prescribed antidepressant and has been found widespread in aquatic environments. However, its toxicities to aquatic organisms has rarely been explored.
Jie Zhou, Yanbin Zhao, Jiayin Dai, Kun Zhang   +3 more
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How does stakeholder involvement affect environmental impact assessment?

Environmental impact assessment review, 2019
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) processes are grounded on the assumption that producing information about environmental impacts will yield better environmental decisions.
N. Ulibarri, Tyler A. Scott, Omar Pérez-Figueroa   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source