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The influence of land cover roughness on the results of high resolution tsunami inundation modeling [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2011 In this paper a local case study is presented in which detailed inundation simulations have been performed to support damage analysis and risk assessment related to the 2004 tsunami in Phang Nga and Phuket, Thailand.
G. Kaiser +5 more
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Land, 2022 As globalization continues, overseas arable land investment is becoming a viable option for China to alleviate its agricultural growth constraints, and the “Belt and Road” initiative offers plenty of opportunities for China to invest in overseas arable ...
Linyan Ma +3 more
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Strategies for Activating Historic District: Micro-reform Implement in Qiulin District, Harbin [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 This paper explores urban strategies that address existing problems in Qiulin District, which is famous as a historic district with plenty of cultural memories in Harbin, China.
Lei Binyu, Gao Qi, Cui Yanyao
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Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 First paragraph: Mark Winne’s book Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty comes as a welcome contrast to the volumes by intellectuals about their quests to eat locally as part of their mission to expose the industrial food ...
Cornelia Butler Flora
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European Journal of American Studies, 2010 Independence Day and Land of Plenty are two tropes referring to the basis of American national identity: the Declaration of Independence with its guarantee of equal and inalienable rights and the promise of an inexhaustible abundance of resources ...
Frank Mehring
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Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of phytoplankton growth in New Zealand lakes: Implications for eutrophication control [PDF]
, 2010 We examine macronutrient limitation in New Zealand (NZ) lakes where, contrary to the phosphorus (P) only control paradigm, nitrogen (N) control is widely adopted to alleviate eutrophication.
Abell, Jonathan Michael +2 more
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Determinants of seasonal food security among smallholder farmers in south-central Uganda
Agriculture & Food Security, 2018 Background Food security is threatened by deteriorating soil quality and declining crop yields in Uganda and throughout Africa where a majority of the population relies on small-scale farming for its livelihood.
Nataliya Apanovich, Robert E. Mazur
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Application of US and EU Sustainability Criteria to Analysis of Biofuels-Induced Land Use Change
Energies, 2014 This research asks and answers a question that had been avoided by all the previous research on biofuels impacts. That is, to what extent are the US and EU biofuels sustainability criteria binding in the sense that if applied, sufficient land would be ...
Krissana Treesilvattanakul +2 more
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Brief communication: SWM – stochastic weather model for precipitation-related hazard assessments using ERA5-Land data [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesLong-term multi-hazard and risk assessments are produced by combining many hazard-model simulations, each using a slightly different set of inputs to cover the uncertainty space.
M. G. Whitehead, M. S. Bebbington
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LADM AND INTERLIS AS A PERFECT MATCH FOR 3D CADASTRE [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 Standardization in land administration domain has been expanded to 3D and even 4D representations, adopting a multipurpose character, in order to become the foundation of a sustainable and smart economic development.
E. Kalogianni +4 more
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