Taming the Floods: Using an Intellectual History of Chinese Hydraulic Thought to Address Contemporary Issues in China’s Water Governance [PDF]
, 2018 China’s current hydraulic systems are in a state of atrophy, caused by sustained damage over centuries to infrastructure that has changed very little. Added to an already weak infrastructure is a relatively new crisis of water scarcity, which is forcing ...
Danison, Sophia Rose
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Improving New Zealand water governance: challenges and recommendations [PDF]
, 2014 The overwhelming majority of New Zealand’s exports – not least agricultural and horticultural – require water, and in large quantities. Indeed, in many respects water is New Zealand’s largest export.
Elizabeth Eppel
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Frontiers in Plant ScienceAccurate counting of crop plants is essential for agricultural science, particularly for yield forecasting, field management, and experimental studies. Traditional methods are labor-intensive and prone to errors.
Zhenyuan Sun +14 more
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Migration Patterns and Prevention and Control Strategies for Microplastics under Reservoir Scheduling [PDF]
长江科学院院报[Objective] Microplastics are widely present in reservoirs across China, posing threats to water quality safety and the stability of reservoir ecological functions.
CHEN Yu-ling, LIN Li
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Women and water management in times of climate change: participatory and inclusive processes [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on community engagement, and particularly the inclusion of women, in water management as a response to climate change. Addressing water-related problems is central to climate change adaptation, and civil society, marginalized ...
Figueiredo, P. +1 more
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Informal Space in the Urban Waterscape: Disaggregation and Co-Production of Water Services
Water Alternatives, 2014 This special issue explores the realities of water provision in 'informal' urban spaces located in different parts of the world through eight empirical, case-based papers. The collection of articles shows that formality and informality are fluid concepts
Rhodante Ahlers +3 more
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Key Challenges and Strategic Pathways for Improving Municipal Drinking Water Quality
能源环境保护Ensuring drinking water safety is critical to public welfare, directly impacting public health and social stability. In China, rapid economic development and continuous improvement of living standards have led to an increasing demand for high-quality ...
Chao ZENG +3 more
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Ecological InformaticsAdequate dissolved oxygen (DO) is critical for the maintenance of aquatic ecosystems. However, predicting DO levels in regions with complex hydrological variations remains challenging.
Peng Zhang +6 more
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Agricultural Water ManagementAccurately estimating and forecasting short-term daily reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) is crucial for real-time irrigation decision-making and regional agricultural water management.
Jia Zhang +5 more
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The Spanish water ?pressure cooker?: Threading the interplay between resource resilient water governance outcomes by strengthening the robustness of water governance processes. [PDF]
, 2013 This paper uses the metaphor of a pressure cooker to highlight how water problems in Spain are highly geographical and sectorial in nature, with some specific hotspots which raise the temperature of the whole water complex system, turning many ...
Corominas, Joan +4 more
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