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Land Subsidence in Beijing’s Sub-Administrative Center and Its Relationship with Urban Expansion Inferred from Sentinel-1/2 Observations

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2021
Beijing’s Sub-Administrative Center (BSAC) is located in the South-eastern Beijing Plain, which exhibits severe subsidence. The rapid urban expansion in recent years has aggravated land subsidence and threatens the safe operation of Beijing.
Jin Cao, Huili Gong, Beibei Chen, Min Shi, Chaofan Zhou, Kunchao Lei, Hairuo Yu, Yujie Sun   +7 more
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Study of conditions of gully formation in mountain regions of South-East Kazakhstan with use of GIS-technologies

Geodesy and Cartography, 2021
In the article the results of field and laboratory researches of gully erosion in the mountains of Zhetysu Alatau of south-east Kazakhstan are considered. Mountain ridge Malaisary was chosen for study of gully erosion.
Yerkebulan Khalykov, Yuisya Lyy, Edil Sarybaev, Maulen Togys, Saule Uksukbayeva, Zhanerke Sharapkhanova   +5 more
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Strategic importance of green water in international crop trade [PDF]

, 2008
Virtual water is the volume of water used to produce a commodity or service. By importing agricultural commodities and the virtual water embedded in them, a country saves the water it would have required to produce those commodities domestically. Virtual-
Aldaya, M.M., Allan, J.A., Hoekstra, A.Y.   +2 more
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Mechanism of Land Subsidence Mutation in Beijing Plain under the Background of Urban Expansion

Remote Sensing, 2021
Under the background of over-exploitation of groundwater and urban expansion, the land subsidence in the Beijing Plain has dramatically increased recently, and has demonstrated obvious mutation characteristics.
Lin Guo, Huili Gong, Yinghai Ke, Lin Zhu, Xiaojuan Li, Mingyuan Lyu, Ke Zhang   +6 more
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Water Security

, 2020
Water security has emerged in the 21st century as a powerful construct to frame the water objectives and goals of human society and to support and guide local to global water policy and management. Water security can be described as the fundamental societal goal of water policy and management.
Sadoff, Claudia W., Grey, D., Borgomeo, Edoardo   +2 more
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Environmental awareness influences the perception of ecosystem services values at Lake Balaton, Hungary [PDF]

One Ecosystem
Knowing people’s perceptions on the importance and value of ecosystem services (ES) is an important step towards sustainable management and recognised as essential for successful conservation. We assessed societal preferences, i.e.
Ágnes Vári, Diána Berecz, Bence Fülöp, Márk Honti, Tibor Erős   +4 more
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Application of Deep Learning in Multitemporal Remote Sensing Image Classification

Remote Sensing, 2023
The rapid advancement of remote sensing technology has significantly enhanced the temporal resolution of remote sensing data. Multitemporal remote sensing image classification can extract richer spatiotemporal features.
Xinglu Cheng, Yonghua Sun, Wangkuan Zhang, Yihan Wang, Xuyue Cao, Yanzhao Wang   +5 more
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Hydrological and water quality simulation and future runoff prediction under CMIP6 scenario in the upstream basin of Miyun Reservoir

Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2022
Water resources are a key factor restricting human survival and social and economic development. The Miyun Reservoir, which is the only surface drinking water source in Beijing and the water storage reservoir of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project,
Jing Zhang, Sijie Ma, Yongyu Song
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Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade [PDF]

, 2020
Progress for both SDG 2 and SDG 6 has been unsatisfactory, with several indicators worsening over time, including an increase in the number of undernourished, overweight and obese people, as well as rapid increases in the number of people at risk of ...
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
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Adaptive Responses of Functional Traits of Typical Submerged Macrophytes to Water Turbidity

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Submerged macrophytes are key components of shallow-lake ecosystems, and water turbidity is a critical environmental factor regulating their growth by reducing underwater light availability. In this study, 3 typical submerged macrophytes from Poyang Lake—
Yibo Ba, Shiyan Wang, Xiaobo Liu, Bei Zhu, Wei Liu, Shilin Zhao, Fei Du, Mingmei Guo, Qiang Xu, Zhi Jiang, Chang Liu, Zhen Han, Liang Wang, Yanliang Du, Xu Ma   +14 more
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