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Quantity and quality of China's water from demand perspectives [PDF]
, 2019 China is confronted with an unprecedented water crisis regarding its quantity and quality. In this study, we quantified the dynamics of China's embodied water use and chemical oxygen demand (COD) discharge from 2010 to 2015.
Guan, Dabo +5 more
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AI‐driven circular economy optimization in waste management: A review of current evidence
Environmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.Abstract The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in waste management has the potential to significantly advance circular economy objectives by enhancing efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing resource recovery. However, realising these benefits depends on addressing significant technical, economic, and systemic ...
David Bamidele Olawade +3 more
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Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reservoir‐based irrigation schemes (RBISs) have been developed to minimize the adverse effects of moisture stress and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in semi‐arid regions. However, many RBISs perform below expectations. A multistage expert elicitation approach and an indicator‐based Sustainability Assessment of Food and ...
Gebremeskel Teklay Berhe +4 more
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Adaptation tipping points of awetland under a drying climate [PDF]
, 2018 Wetlands experience considerable alteration to their hydrology, which typically contributes to a decline in their overall ecological integrity. Wetland management strategies aim to repair wetland hydrology and attenuate wetland loss that is associated ...
Beesley, Leah +5 more
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Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo +5 more
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Frontiers in WaterThe study focuses on the history of expansion of water infrastructure and drought mitigation measures, through construction of a large network of reservoirs over a 100-year period in the Jaguaribe River Basin, in the state of Ceará, Brazil.
Bruno Pereira +5 more
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Climate variability as experienced by farmers. [K-2224-04] [PDF]
, 2015 The typical approach of estimating crop response to future climate scenarios may be inappropriate in the case of smallholder multi cropping rain-fed agriculture.
Leclerc, Christian +2 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forest ecosystem services (ESs) are garnering increasing public attention as awareness grows regarding society's fundamental dependence on them for well‐being. Forest fires, one of the major disturbances of ESs, are becoming more frequent and destructive, exacerbated in part by climate change.
Emanuele Spada +6 more
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Introduction to integrated environmental modelling to solve real world problems: methods, vision and challenges [PDF]
, 2016 Across the world, stakeholders are asking questions of their governments and decision makers to quantify the risks of environmental threats to their well-being.
Giles, Jeremy +3 more
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Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock +5 more
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