Ecological compensation in Dutch highway planning.

abstract：:/ The scientific quality of monitoring for diffuse environmental impacts has rarely been quantified. This paper presents an analysis of all formal environmental monitoring programs for Australian tourism developments over a 15-year period from 1980 to 1995. The tourism sector provides a good test bed for this study be...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Warnken J,Buckley R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four biomass wastes (rice husk, coffee husk, coarse wool, and landfill wood) were added with biochar and polypropylene (PP) to manufacture biocomposites. Individual biomasses were tested for their combustion behavior using cone calorimeter. Biocomposites were analyzed for their fire/thermal, mechanical, and morphologi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Das O,Kim NK,Hedenqvist MS,Lin RJT,Sarmah AK,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk-assessment methods are useful in collecting data that can help decision making to prevent the introduction of new species that have the potential of invading as well as in management of established taxa. Not only the complexity and unaffordability of available pre-introduction risk-assessment models make them rar...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Seburanga JL,Bizuru E,Mwavu EN,Kampungu KG,Gatesire T,Kaplin BA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat protection for grassland birds is an important component of open space land acquisition in suburban Chicago. We use optimization decision models to develop recommendations for land protection and analyze tradeoffs between alternative goals. One goal is to acquire (and restore if necessary) as much grassland ha...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Snyder SA,Miller JR,Skibbe AM,Haight RG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National Pollution Discharge Elimination Permit (NPDES)-driven effluent toxicity tests using Ceriodaphnia dubia and fathead minnows were conducted for more than 20 years to assess and monitor the effects of wastewaters at the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12 Complex) in Oa...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Greeley MS Jr,Kszos LA,Morris GW,Smith JG,Stewart AJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A river system is a network of intertwining channels and tributaries, where interacting flow and sediment transport processes are complex and floods may frequently occur. In water resources management of a complex system of rivers, it is important that instream discharges and sediments being carried by streamflow are ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Yitian L,Gu RR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Land-use allocation has important implications for the conservation and management of tropical forests. Peru's forestry regime has recently been reformed and more than 7 million ha has been assigned as forest concessions. This potentially has a drastic impact on the land-use practices and species composition of the as...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Salo M,Toivonen T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern California desert public lands receive especially high levels of off-highway recreation due to large population centers nearby and popular riding environments such as sand dunes. Controversy has developed over the flat-tailed horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcallii), previously a candidate for listing under the End...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Grant TJ,Doherty PF Jr

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific research literature is reviewed (i) for evidence of how much reduction in nonpoint source pollution can be achieved by installing buffers on crop land, (ii) to summarize important factors that can affect this response, and (iii) to identify remaining major information gaps that limit our ability to make...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dosskey MG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerical clustering has frequently been used to define hierarchically organized ecological regionalizations, but there has been little robust evaluation of their performance (i.e., the degree to which regions discriminate areas with similar ecological character). In this study we investigated the effect of the weight...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Snelder T,Lehmann A,Lamouroux N,Leathwick J,Allenbach K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Carolinian Life Zone in southwestern Ontario, Canada is valued because it represents an almost disjunct ecosystem (i.e., one that is typical of the mid-Atlantic United States, rather than the rest of Canada or the nearby states in the United States). The landscape of the Carolinian Life Zone has undergone dramatic...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Meloche C,Murphy SD

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence and relative importance of insecticides and other agricultural stressors in determining variability in invertebrate communities in small streams in intensive soy-production regions of Brazil and Paraguay. In Paraguay we sampled 17 sites on tributaries of the Pirapó River in the state of I...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hunt L,Marrochi N,Bonetto C,Liess M,Buss DF,Vieira da Silva C,Chiu MC,Resh VH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A linkage between the condition of watersheds and adjacent nearshore coral reef communities is an assumed paradigm in the concept of integrated coastal management. However, quantitative evidence for this "catchment to sea" or "ridge to reef" relationship on oceanic islands is lacking and would benefit from the use of ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Rodgers KS,Kido MH,Jokiel PL,Edmonds T,Brown EK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few decades, the demand for construction grade sand is increasing in many parts of the world due to rapid economic development and subsequent growth of building activities. This, in many of the occasions, has resulted in indiscriminate mining of sand from in-stream and floodplain areas leading to severe da...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sreebha S,Padmalal D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial lighting along coastlines poses a significant threat to marine turtles due to the importance of light for their natural orientation at the nesting beach. Effective lighting management requires widespread support and participation, yet engaging the public with light reduction initiatives is difficult because...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kamrowski RL,Sutton SG,Tobin RC,Hamann M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementing effective conservation requires an understanding of factors affecting deforestation and forest degradation. Previous studies have investigated factors affecting deforestation, while few studies have examined the determinants of both of deforestation and forest degradation for more than one period. To addr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Htun NZ,Mizoue N,Yoshida S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ This paper presents a foundation for improving the risk assessmentprocess for freshwater wetlands. Integrating wetland science, i.e., use of anecosystem-based approach, is the key concept. Each biotic and abiotic wetlandcomponent should be identified and its contribution to ecosystem functionsand societal values det...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lemly AD

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Living plants have been used for a very long time throughout the world in structures against soil erosion, as traces have been found dating back to the first century BC. Widely practiced in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bioengineering was somewhat abandoned in the middle of the twentie...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Evette A,Labonne S,Rey F,Liebault F,Jancke O,Girel J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desert springs, often the sole sources of water for wildlife and cattle, support wetland and wetland/upland transition ecosystems including rare and endemic species. In the basin and range province in Nevada, USA, springs in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are sustained by interconnected deep carbonate and shallow ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Patten DT,Rouse L,Stromberg JC

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapped environmental classifications are defined using various procedures, but there has been little evaluation of the differences in their ability to discriminate variation in independent ecological characteristics. We tested the performance of environmental classifications of the streams and rivers of France that ha...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Snelder TH,Pella H,Wasson JG,Lamouroux N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of literature addresses the role of science in environmental impact assessment (EIA) but less attention has been given to the views of practitioners themselves. In this research a survey of 31 EIA practitioners in Western Australia was undertaken to determine their perceptions of the quality and importanc...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Morrison-Saunders A,Bailey J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent article in Environmental Management by All argued that flood flows in North America's Colorado River do not reach the Gulf of California because they are captured and evaporated in Laguna Salada, a below sea-level lakebed near the mouth of the river. We refute this hypothesis by showing that (1) due to its li...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Glenn EP,Flessa KW,Cohen MJ,Nagler PL,Rowell K,Zamora-Arroyo F

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of many African game reserves is today often still an art based on experience and intuition, rather than a science. Decision-making is based on an informal integration of accumulated individual knowledge and keen field observations. Data are generally poorly captured and curated. Until fairly recently, deno...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stalmans M,Balkwill K,Witkowski ET,Rogers KH

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the findings of the first major visitor survey conducted at the Central Rhodope Mountain Complex, situated in northern Greece. The study area is one of a number of sites planned to become National Parks under a recent initiative of the Greek government. We used a logistic regression method to def...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Machairas I,Hovardas T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research continues to show that pharmaceutical environmental contamination causes adverse effects to aquatic life. There are also public health risks associated with pharmaceuticals because in-home reserves of medications provide opportunities for accidental poisoning and intentional medication abuse. Pharmaceutical t...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stoddard KI,Hodge V,Maxey G,Tiwari C,Cready C,Huggett DB

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial plant toxicity tests were conducted to determine the sensitivity of two boreal plants, yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) and fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium L.), to the herbicides imazapyr and triclopyr. Both plants are common non-target species on northern powerline rights-of-way where the impacts of pro...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Isbister KM,Lamb EG,Stewart KJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BOSAWAS Natural Resource Reserve of Nicaragua was established in 1991, to protect a portion of the remaining tropical rain forest and to promote the sustainable use of the region's resources. Information required to effectively manage the reserve includes the extents and locations of present land-cover types and r...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Smith JH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article investigates the involvement of local stakeholders in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) processes of Ghana's first off-shore oil fields (the Jubilee fields). Adopting key informants interviews and documentary reviews, the article argues that the public hearings and the other stakeholder engagement...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bawole JN

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water management has been significantly reshaped throughout recent decades in Europe and worldwide. Vivid examples of this restructuring include Southern European coastal zones which have been transformed into the European "pleasure periphery" over the last 40 years, requiring significant changes in water service prov...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Thiel A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The quality and sustainability of the natural environment is a matter of inestimable value and is critical to public health and welfare. All species have a purpose, and they exist for the betterment of other species. It is, therefore, incumbent on all humans to do their part in the preservation of this vast, diverse...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： HEYDLAUFF DE

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00