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Horticulturae, 2022 Urban Agriculture (UA) is the widespread practice of food production within available city space using non-commercial, commercial and hybrid production technologies. The economic viability of UA remains a concern among UA practitioners. To investigate UA’
Arun Kafle, James Hopeward, Baden Myers
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Opportunities and challenges for the sustainability of lakes and reservoirs in relation to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) [PDF]
, 2019 Emerging global threats, such as biological invasions, climate change, land use intensification, and water depletion, endanger the sustainable future of lakes and reservoirs.
Goethals, Peter, Ho, Long Tuan
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A comprehensive review and analysis on CO2 heat pump water heaters
Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2022 In the context of the Montreal Protocol, CO2 is considered as an appropriate natural refrigerant with an Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP) of zero and a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of one. A CO2 heat pump water heater (HPWH) can provide hot water with a
Ji Wang +5 more
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Optimisation of Storage for Concentrated Solar Power Plants
Challenges, 2014 The proliferation of non-scheduled generation from renewable electrical energy sources such concentrated solar power (CSP) presents a need for enabling scheduled generation by incorporating energy storage; either via directly coupled Thermal Energy ...
Luigi Cirocco +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 There is interest in utilizing wood ash as an amendment in forestry operations as a mechanism to return nutrients to soils that are removed during harvesting, with the added benefit of diverting this bioenergy waste material from landfill sites. Existing
Emily Smenderovac +12 more
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Horticulturae, 2023 This paper examines the social, economic and environmental potential of Urban Agriculture (UA) based on information from forty distinct locations in each of the two regions: Adelaide, South Australia and Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, representing the diverse ...
Arun Kafle, James Hopeward, Baden Myers
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PCBs in lake Geneva (Lake Leman) fish [PDF]
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 1982 PCBs in Lake Geneva (Lake Leman ...
Monod, Gilles, Keck, G
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Light attenuation characteristics of glacially-fed lakes [PDF]
, 2014 Transparency is a fundamental characteristic of aquatic ecosystems and is highly responsive to changes in climate and land use. The transparency of glacially-fed lakes may be a particularly sensitive sentinel characteristic of these changes.
Allan, Mathew Grant +8 more
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Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes
Global Change Biology, 2020 In many regions across the globe, extreme weather events such as storms have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration due to climate change. Ecological theory predicts that such extreme events should have large impacts on ecosystem structure and ...
J. Stockwell +38 more
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 Landscape design is a conservation planning process, described in the landscape ecology literature, proposed to rectify the knowledge and implementation gap in planning that have limited the effectiveness of many conservation planning efforts.
Anne M. Bartuszevige +3 more
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