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Water allocation policies for the Dong Nai River Basin in Vietnam: an integrated perspective [PDF]

Recent water sector reforms, increased scarcity and vulnerability of existing water resources, combined with declining public funding available for large-scale infrastructure investment in the sector have led to an increased awareness by the Government ...
Ringler, Claudia, Vu Huy, Nguyen
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LOD2-Level+ Low-Rise Building Model Extraction Method for Oblique Photography Data Using U-NET and a Multi-Decision RANSAC Segmentation Algorithm

Remote Sensing
Oblique photography is a regional digital surface model generation technique that can be widely used for building 3D model construction. However, due to the lack of geometric and semantic information about the building, these models make it difficult to ...
Yufeng He, Xiaobian Wu, Weibin Pan, Hui Chen, Songshan Zhou, Shaohua Lei, Xiaoran Gong, Hanzeyu Xu, Yehua Sheng   +8 more
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Why TVES have contributed to interregional imbalances in China: [PDF]

The major objectives of this paper are to shed some light on the mechanism that generates interregional economic imbalances among communities in rural China.
Ito, Junichi
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Large differential land subsidence and earth fissures in Jiangyin, China

, 2010
Jiangyin County is in the infamous Su-Xi-Chang land subsidence area caused by excessive groundwater withdrawal in Jiangsu province, China. The maximum accumulated land subsidence reached 1,310 mm near the centre of the subsiding trough in 2006 in ...
You, Greg, Wu, J. Q., Wu, Shuliang, Wang, Guang-ya, Shi, Bin   +4 more
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Managing droughts in the low-rainfall areas of the Middle East and North Africa: [PDF]

Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three-quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a majority
Hazell, P. B. R., Oram, Peter A., Chaherli, Nabil   +2 more
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The provenance of Taklamakan desert sand [PDF]

, 2016
Sand migration in the vast Taklamakan desert within the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region, PR China) is governed by two competing transport agents: wind and water, which work in diametrically opposed directions. Net aeolian transport is from
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Improved water supply in the Ghanaian Volta Basin: who uses it and who participates in community decision-making? [PDF]

"We examine access to, use of, and participation in decisions on improved water supply in the Volta basin of Ghana, one of the first countries to introduce a community-based approach to rural water supply on a large scale.
Useche, Maria del Pilar, Iskandarani, Maria, Engel, Stefanie   +2 more
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Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Grey Water Footprint in the Huai River Basin and Its Influencing Factors

To evaluate water pollution status and sustainable development potential in the Huai River Basin, this study focused on the spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of the grey water footprint (GWF) across 35 cities in the basin from 2005 to 2020.
Jing Xu, Fuju Xie, Weiying Xu, Yushuo Zhang, Qi Wang, Xi Wang   +5 more
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The Rodent assemblages from the late Aragonian and the Vallesian (middle to late Miocene) of the Vallès-Penedès basin (Catalonia, Spain)

, 2007
Consultable des del TDXTítol obtingut de la portada digitalitzadaLa conca del Vallès-Penedès es una àrea clau per a l'estudi de les successions de mamífers del Miocè europeu, donat que el seu abundant registre cobreix gairebé la totalitat d'aquest ...
Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac
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The economics of intellectual property rights under imperfect enforcement: developing countries, biotechnology, and the TRIPs agreement [PDF]

This paper develops a model of heterogeneous producers to examine the economic causes of IPR infringement and its consequences for the welfare of the interest groups and the pricing and adoption of a new technology (i.e., a genetically modified seed) in ...
Giannakas, Konstantinos
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