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Assessing the capacity of local ecosystems to meet industrial demand for ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2016
Despite the importance of ecosystems, engineering activities continue to ignore or greatly undervalue their role. Consequently, engineered systems often overshoot nature's capacity to support them, causing ecological degradation.
Allenby BR, Delgado A, Grann H., Hann DW., Homer CG, Ishikawa Y, Larsen DR, Martin NA, Mitsch WJ., Neale A, Ritchie MW, Schulze P., Smith R, Smith W. H., Straskraba M, Wackernagel M   +15 more
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Gross direct and embodied carbon sinks for urban inventories [PDF]

, 2012
Cities and urban regions are undertaking efforts to quantify greenhouse (GHG) emissions from their jurisdictional boundaries. Although inventorying methodologies are beginning to standardize for GHG sources, carbon sequestration is generally not ...
Kennedy, Christopher, Mohareb, Eugene
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Urban pollution and ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2019
Urban pollutants can degrade and inhibit ecological functions and processes. Those natural processes provide vital benefits and services to humans.
Baldocchi, Bidwell, Currie, Davies, Demuzere, Desai, Galvao, Jose, Kallis, Kiss, Kong, Lundy, Maes, POSTnote 281, POSTnote 376, POSTnote 542, Pugh, Rogers, Salmond, Säumel, WHO   +20 more
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PFHydro: A New Watershed-Scale Model for Post-Fire Runoff Simulation [PDF]

, 2020
Runoff increases after wildfires that burn vegetation and create a condition of soil-water repellence (SWR). A new post-fire watershed hydrological model, PFHydro, was created to explicitly simulate vegetation interception and SWR effects for four burn ...
Alpers, CN, Flint, AL, Flint, LE, King, VM, Quinn, NWT, Stern, MA, Wang, J   +6 more
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Influence of evaporative cooling by urban forests on cooling demand in cities [PDF]

, 2019
Trees provide important ecosystem services to urban human society. Their absence can lead to more pronounced environmental and social consequences, for example the urban heat island effect.
Doick, Kieron J., Moss, J. L., Shahrestani, Mehdi, Smith, Stefan   +3 more
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Investigating the effect of trees on urban quality in Dublin by combining air monitoring with i-Tree Eco model

, 2020
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a common air pollutant that represents a significant threat to public health. In Dublin, a major source of PM2.5 is diesel exhaust, brake dust, and rubber tire particles from vehicles.
Emily Riondato, F. Pilla, Arunima Sarkar Basu, Bidroha Basu   +3 more
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Climate tolerances and trait choices shape continental patterns of urban tree biodiversity [PDF]

, 2016
Aim: We propose and test a climate tolerance and trait choice hypothesis of urban macroecological variation in which strong filtering associated with low winter temperatures restricts urban biodiversity while weak filtering associated with warmer ...
Alonzo, M, Avolio, ML, Clarke, LW, Gillespie, TW, Hutyra, LR, Jenerette, GD, McFadden, JP, McHale, M, Nowak, DJ, Pataki, DE, Pincetl, S   +10 more
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Statens arbeideres tjenestepensjoner (1814–1917)

Arbeiderhistorie, 2019
Tjenestepensjonsordningene for statens arbeidere mellom 1814 og 1917 er lite undersøkt. Her behandles alders-, uføre- og enkepensjoner. Det var fire hovedgrupper arbeidere i staten; for det første arbeiderne på Sølvverket på Kongsberg, der ...
Harald Espeli
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Ecological homogenization of urban USA [PDF]

, 2014
A visually apparent but scientifically untested outcome of land-use change is homogenization across urban areas, where neighborhoods in different parts of the country have similar patterns of roads, residential lots, commercial areas, and aquatic ...
Bettez, ND, Cavender-Bares, J, Chowdhury, RR, Groffman, PM, Grove, JM, Hall, SJ, Heffernan, JB, Hobbie, SE, Larson, KL, Morse, JL, Neill, C, Nelson, K, O'Neil-Dunne, J, Ogden, L, Pataki, DE, Polsky, C, Steele, MK   +16 more
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Public Benefits of Undeveloped Lands on Urban Outskirts: Non-Market Valuation Studies and their Role in Land Use Plans [PDF]

, 2007
Over the past three decades, the economics profession has developed methods for estimating the public benefits of green spaces, providing an opportunity to incorporate such information into land-use planning.
--2004b, A M Freeman, B Roe, C F Kiker, C Fausold, C Fausold, D J Krieger, E G Irwin, E Irwin, E Nelson, Econorthwest, G Acharya, G Mcphearson, H. Spencer Banzhaf, J B Loomis, J Geoghegan, J Kline, J Loomis, J M Bowker, Junjie Wu, Junjie Wu, M Riddel, Matthew J Kotchen, N Bockstael, P Thorsnes, R B Palmquist, R C Ready, R Mitchell, R P Walsh, R Rasker, R S Rosenberger, R S Rosenberger, R S Rosenberger, T Kroeger, U S Forest Service, V K Smith, V Mcconnell, W H Desvousges, W S Breffle, William A Fischel, Y Kaoru   +40 more
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