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Exploring the tidal response to bathymetry evolution and present-day sea level rise in a channel–shoal environment [PDF]

open access: yesOcean Science
Intertidal flats and salt marshes in channel–shoal environments are at severe risk of drowning under sea level rise (SLR) ultimately ceasing their function of coastal defense.
R. Lepper   +4 more
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Restoring Waterways, But for Whom? Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and the Unhoused

open access: yesLand
The restoration of waterways is increasingly understood as an endeavor that could (and should) be beneficial for both ecosystems and people. Researchers have already explored several ways that restoration can mediate in favor of environmental justice ...
Sharon Moran, Richard Smardon
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the in situ compressive and tensile strength of existing massive hydraulic structures

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
In Germany hydraulic structures like weirs or locks under the responsibility of the Federal Min-istry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure have an average age of about 80 years.
Spörel Frank
doaj   +1 more source

Ground Motion and Air Overpressure Study

open access: yesShock and Vibration, 1998
A seismic attenuation and air overpressure study was conducted to determine the attenuation of explosion induced ground motions and air overpressures as a function of distance from shallow subsurface detonated charges, and to derive parameters to predict
Michael K. Sharp, Donald E. Yule
doaj   +1 more source

Technology transfer: Transportation [PDF]

open access: yes
The application of NASA derived technology in solving problems related to highways, railroads, and other rapid systems is described. Additional areas/are identified where space technology may be utilized to meet requirements related to waterways, law ...
Anyos, T.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Hydraulics of Minimum Energy Culverts and Bridge Waterways [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
The design of culverts and bridge waterways according to the approach described variously as "minimum energy" and as "constant energy" is summarised. The hydraulics of the flow in such waterways is discussed.
Apelt, Colin J.
core  

The political economy of a productivist agriculture: New Zealand dairy discourses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The New Zealand dairy industry faces political and commercial pressure to improve its environmental performance on the one hand while maintaining economic efficiency and commercial competitiveness in a global marketplace on the other. The growing scale
Jay, Grace Mairi M.
core   +2 more sources

Improving port hinterland connection capacity: a comparative study of Polish and Belgian cases [PDF]

open access: yes
The study takes a comparative approach by investigating the situation in the hinterlands of two different port areas in Europe: Antwerp (Belgium) and Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia agglomeration (Poland).
Anna Golêdzinowska   +5 more
core  

Erosive stability channel factor for Brda River (Poland): A key assessment of the human impact of the catchment changes

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sediment Research
The stability of river channels results from the impact of spatially diversified natural characteristics of the catchment, which are additionally intensified by the pressure of human activities.
Dawid Aleksander Szatten   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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