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Regulatory Framework and Public Policies for Sustainability in the Construction Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the role of public policies in promoting socially responsible practices in the construction sector, with a particular focus on their contribution to climate neutrality and the decarbonization of the building stock. European agreements exert increasing pressure to transform the construction sector, reinforcing the transition
Olga González‐Morales, Marta Mª. Domínguez‐Herrera, Rocío Peña‐Vázquez, Lilia Clara Alonso Gutiérrez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kızılırmak Sekilerinin Oluşumunda İklim ve Tektoniğin Rolü, Avanos

Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 2011
This study aims in order to determine influence climate and tectonics on the formation of the Kızılırmak terraces that confined between Sarıhıdır and Çiftedam (Avanos).
Nurcan Avşin Görendağlı
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological Sites Along Cuthand Creek and the Sulphur River in the Mid–Sulphur River Basin, Red River County, Texas [PDF]

, 2016
The Cuthand Creek and Little Mustang Creek drainage basins in the mid–Sulphur River basin are in the Post Oak Savannah of East Texas. Prehistoric archaeological sites are abundant in both basins and along the Sulphur River, dating from as early as ...
Cheatwood, Gary W., Perttula, Timothy K.
core   +1 more source

Geomorphology of the Kaikoura area [PDF]

, 1968
The major physiographic units in the Kaikoura area are the Peninsula Block, Beach Ridges and Raised Beaches, Hard Rock Areas and the Alluvial Fans. Erosion of the Seaward Kaikoura Mountains and the transfer of the debris to the sea by fan streams have ...
Chandra, Satish
core   +2 more sources

Landscape, stand and tree characteristics influence the distribution of lightning damage in Central African forests

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The impact of lightning in tropical forests remains uncertain. Specifically, the factors that influence the spatial distribution of lightning damage within forests remain unknown.
Bianca Zoletto, Masha T. van der Sande, Peter van der Sleen, Evan M. Gora, Daniel Mitchard, Aventino Nkwasibwe, Marijn Bauters, Aida Cuni‐Sanchez, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Dennis Babaasa, Meirion Hills, Paul van der Donk, Nestor K. Luambua, Wannes Hubau, Douglas Sheil   +14 more
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Caddo Ceramic Vessels from the Womack Site (41LR1), Lamar County, Texas [PDF]

, 2015
The Womack site (41LR1) is an ancestral Caddo settlement situated on an alluvial terrace in a horseshoe bend of the Red River in north central Lamar County in East Texas.
Perttula, Timothy K., Walters, Mark
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RIVER TERRACES AND EARTH MOVEMENT ALONG THE RIVER TOYO

Geographical Review of Japan, 1960
The River Toyo flows into Atsumi Bay, taking the northeast-southwest direction along the median line which is one of the most important tectonic lines in Japan. There is a considerable difference in the topography and geology between the areas of the right side (Inner Zone) and the left (Outer Zone) of the river (Figs. 1 and 2).
Tadashi MACHIDA, Yôko ÔKURA
openaire   +2 more sources

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source