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Lithological effects on rocky coastline stability
Heliyon, 2020 Rock coasts are perceived to be stable, however, recent occurrence of stacks of rocks and subsequent loss of some rocky coasts poses a challenge for research.
Cynthia Borkai Boye +1 more
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Assessment of Shoreline Change Along The Sandy Beach of Ellembelle District of Ghana
Geoplanning: Journal of Geomatics and Planning, 2022 Sandy beaches are most popular tourists and fish landing sites, and serve as habitat for several endangered species. However, sandy beaches more vulnerable to coastal erosion, particularly those along open oceans.
Cynthia Borkai Boye +2 more
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Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl +6 more
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Geoplanning: Journal of Geomatics and PlanningThere is a threat of extreme waves and a moderate risk level of coastal erosion in Bunton Village. Based on the preliminary assessment, there is huge erosion of the shoreline and visible changes in the shoreline temporally.
Bachtiar W. Mutaqin +4 more
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Multi-decadal shoreline change in coastal natural world heritage sites – a global assessment
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Natural World Heritage Sites (NWHS), which are of Outstanding Universal Value, are increasingly threatened by natural and anthropogenic pressures. This is especially true for coastal NWHS, which are additionally subject to erosion and flooding.
Salma Sabour +4 more
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
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Shoreline Evolution: Prince George County, Virginia Upper Chippokes Creek, James and Appomattox River Shorelines [PDF]
, 2016 Prince George County is situated between on the James River between Upper Chippokes Creek and the Appomattox Rivers (Figure 1). Because the County’s shoreline is continually changing, determining where the shoreline was in the past, how far and how fast ...
Milligan, Donna A. +2 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Arctic ScienceThis study assesses shoreline change dynamics along a 633 km coastal stretch of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Beaufort Sea (Canada), using aerial photography-derived orthomosaics (1950 and 1985) and very high-resolution Pléiades satellite imagery (2020). We
Bernardo Costa +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2016 This study presents an unsupervised fuzzy c-means classification (FCM) to observe the shoreline positions. We combined crisp and fuzzy methods for change detection.
Ratna Sari Dewi +3 more
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