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Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New approaches to high-resolution mapping of marine vertical structures

Scientific Reports, 2017
Vertical walls in marine environments can harbour high biodiversity and provide natural protection from bottom-trawling activities. However, traditional mapping techniques are usually restricted to down-looking approaches which cannot adequately ...
Katleen Robert, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Daniel O. B. Jones, Leigh Marsh, Gareth D. O. Carter, Leo Chaumillon   +6 more
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Neo-Liberal Reality in Post-Industrial Waterfronts of the Post-Socialist Cities: The Polish Tri-City Case [PDF]

Economic and Business Review, 2016
A natural problem of post-industrial cities, which results from economic change, is their heritage in the form of degraded and unused post-industrial areas. They are often situated in central districts. Thus, it is obvious that local authorities consider
Magdalena Szmytkowska, Klaudia Nowicka
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Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in the Shrimp Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862): Assessment in an Environmental Preservation Area in the Brazilian Amazon

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropogenic activities generate a significant amount of pollutants that are released into the environment, causing physiological and ecological disturbances. Among the xenobiotics present in aquatic ecosystems, numerous chemical and organic compounds have oxidative potential or are metabolized through oxidative processes, which may amplify ...
Natália Eduarda da Silva, Arllon José dos Santos Dias, Layane Vitoria dos Santos e Santos, Natalie de Matos Araujo, Darlan Coutinho dos Santos, Jefferson Romáryo Duarte da Luz, Gabriel Araujo‐Silva   +6 more
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Drivers of exceptionally cold North Atlantic Ocean temperatures and their link to the 2015 European heat wave

Environmental Research Letters, 2016
The North Atlantic and Europe experienced two extreme climate events in 2015: exceptionally cold ocean surface temperatures and a summer heat wave ranked in the top ten over the past 65 years.
Aurélie Duchez, Eleanor Frajka-Williams, Simon A Josey, Dafydd G Evans, Jeremy P Grist, Robert Marsh, Gerard D McCarthy, Bablu Sinha, David I Berry, Joël J-M Hirschi   +9 more
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Decoupling sustainability and performance: How government infrastructure projects in Australia fare on strategic environmental commitments

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian government organisations are pivotal in helping to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals. Yet while these organisations promote sustainability in their strategic plans, they struggle to embed these same commitments into their own infrastructure and construction projects. This study examines this persistent disconnect
Richard Hughes, Kerry Brown
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Detecting new obfuscated malware variants: A lightweight and interpretable machine learning approach

Intelligent Systems with Applications
Machine learning has been successfully applied in developing malware detection systems, with a primary focus on accuracy, and increasing attention to reducing computational overhead and improving model interpretability.
Oladipo A. Madamidola, Felix Ngobigha, Adnane Ez-zizi   +2 more
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Detecting the Effects of Deep-Seabed Nodule Mining: Simulations Using Megafaunal Data From the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is in the process of preparing exploitation regulations for deep-seabed mining (DSM). DSM has the potential to disturb the seabed over wide areas, yet there is little information on the ecological consequences ...
Jeff A. Ardron, Jeff A. Ardron, Erik Simon-Lledó, Daniel O. B. Jones, Henry A. Ruhl, Henry A. Ruhl   +5 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source