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The relationship between Taiwan’s groundwater resources recharge strategy and flood disasters is significant. The adaptation strategies of traditional urbanization areas simulate the spatial distribution of permeable pavements under different rainfall ...
Kuo-Chen Ma +2 more
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Developing a Reliability Index of Low Impact Development for Urban Areas [PDF]
A defining characteristic of the urbanization is the transformation of existing pervious areas into impervious areas during development. This leads to numerous hydrologic and environmental problems such as an increase in surface runoff due to excess rainfall, flooding, the deterioration of water quality, and an increase in nonpoint source pollution ...
Yang Ho Song, Jung Ho Lee, Eui Hoon Lee
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Inter-American Development Bank Sustainability Report 2019 [PDF]
Sustainability is a core element of the IDBs work. Long-term economic growth, and the reduction of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean depend on development that is economically, financially, environmentally, socially, and ...
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Low impact development (LID)/green infrastructure (GI) practices have been identified as the sustainable practices of managing the stormwater in urban areas.
Shafique Muhammad, Kim Reeho
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Low Impact Development construction of peak cluster depression based on regulation of epikarst zone
Most of the bare karst areas environments with the widest distribution in southern China have peak cluster depression landforms. With high incidence of many environmental problems such as rocky desertification, flood, water shortage, and water pollution,
Guanghui JIANG +3 more
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Uruguay Sustainable Development Report 2021 [PDF]
Este informe presenta una edición especial del índice de los ODS y los tableros de control para Uruguay. Uruguay se compara con los países de la OCDE utilizando un conjunto específico de indicadores de los ODS disponibles para estos países.
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The drawdown time is important for the design and assessment of infiltration basins. This paper investigates its dependence on soil heterogeneity, and simple analytical solutions for the mean and the variance are given.
Marco Ferrante, Aldo Fiori
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A distributed SCS-CN model with revised effective precipitation
To solve the problem of the equation structure becoming more complex in the improved soil conservation service curve number (SCS-CN) model, a SCS-CN model with revised effective precipitation (SCS-CN-REP) is proposed by introducing a revised coefficient ...
Hongbin SHEN +3 more
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Perception of professionals working in João Pessoa and surroundings regarding sustainable urban drainage [PDF]
In Brazil, the adoption of sustainable urban drainage (SUD) measures is modest, and the conventional approach prevails. This research evaluates the perception of 377 professionals (civil engineers, environmental engineers and architects) that work in ...
Maria Cecília Paiva Nóbrega +3 more
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Development Effectiveness Overview (DEO) 2020
The Development Effectiveness Overview (DEO) is an annual report produced by the IDB Group to share the results and impact of its work in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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