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Monitored Natural Recovery

2013
Monitored natural recovery (MNR) of contaminated sediments is a remedial approach that relies on natural physical, chemical, and biological processes to isolate, destroy, or otherwise reduce the bioavailability or toxicity of contaminants (USEPA, 2005a; NRC, 1997).
Phyllis C. Fuchsman, Kristin Searcy Bell, Karen A. Merritt, Jason M. Conder, D. Bart Chadwick, Todd S. Bridges, Victor S. Magar   +6 more
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Compressive Sampling Recovery for Natural Images

2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010
Compressive sampling (CS) is a novel data collection and coding theory which allows us to recover sparse or compressible signals from a small set of measurements. This paper presents a new model for natural image recovery, in which the smooth l0 norm and the approximate total-variation (TV) norm are adopted simultaneously.
Fei Shang, Huiqian Du, Yunde Jia
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Nature's Recovery

How can we promote the recovery and restoration of nature in Yorkshire & Humber? This Insight Paper explores some of the key challenges and outlines some of the potential actions that we could take on a regional scale. This report was developed collaboratively through the Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission’s Land, Water, Nature, Food panel.
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Evidence for nature recovery

This POSTnote summarises the challenges and opportunities for developing the evidence base required to ensure the effectiveness of nature recovery actions.
Stephanie Day, Jonathan Wentworth
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Recovery Lending After Natural Disasters

SSRN Electronic Journal
This paper examines how banks’ incentives to internalize the spillovers from natural disasters affect their credit lending. Using data on small business loans and damage estimates from natural disasters, I find that banks with a large lending share in a local market provide more credit to small firms during the recovery periods than other banks.
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The impact of nature-led recovery initiatives for individual and community health post disaster: a systematic literature review

Reviews on Environmental Health, 2022
Joanne E Porter, Elissa Dabkowski, Michael S Barbagallo   +2 more
exaly  

Natural Disasters: Impacts and Recovery

To varying degrees, natural disasters affect every country of the world. Two critical factors in determining the scale of disaster impacts are magnitude coupled with the degree to which an extreme event intersects with human activity. For example, a Category 5 hurricane that does not make landfall would not be considered a disaster, whereas a smaller ...
Jungmin Lim, Mark Skidmore
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Natural Aids to Recovery

The American Journal of Nursing, 1911
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Biodiversity loss and nature recovery

Meeting legally binding targets for reversing biodiversity loss would require a range of challenges to be addressed but would also provide societal benefits.
Elena Ares, Jonathan Wentworth
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Embodying Experiences with Nature in Everyday Life Recovery for Persons with Eating Disorders

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Lise Katrine Jepsen Trangsrud, Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Trude Klevan   +2 more
exaly