Methods of compliance evaluation for ocean outfall design and analysis.

abstract：:Until recently, governmental organizations played a dominant and decisive role in natural resource management. However, an increasing number of studies indicate that this dominant role is developing towards a more facilitating role as equal partner to improve efficiency and create a leaner state. This approach is char...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fliervoet JM,Geerling GW,Mostert E,Smits AJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Because studies estimating density of gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have been labor intensive and costly, I demonstrate the use of line transect surveys to estimate gray squirrel density and determine the costs of conducting surveys to achieve precise estimates. Density estimates are based on four transects ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hein EW

更新日期：1997-11-01 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 U.S. federal government, as well as many state and local governments, operate a number of conservation programs aimed at ameliorating the environmental problems associated with agriculture. While motives and barriers to conservation program participation and adoption of conservation practices have been extensively...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Reimer AP,Denny RCH,Stuart D

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil analyses were conducted on home lawns across diverse ecoregions of the U.S. to determine the soil organic carbon (SOC) sink capacity of turfgrass soils. Establishment of lawns sequestered SOC over time. Due to variations in ecoregions, sequestration rates varied among sites from 0.9 Mg carbon (C) ha(-1) year(-1) ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Selhorst A,Lal R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agroforestry systems (AFSs) have an important role in capturing above and below ground soil carbon and play a dominant role in mitigation of atmospheric CO(2). Attempts has been made here to identify soil organic matter fractions in the cacao-AFSs that have different susceptibility to microbial decomposition and furth...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Rita JC,Gama-Rodrigues EF,Gama-Rodrigues AC,Polidoro JC,Machado RC,Baligar VC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 200 years, many rivers in industrialized countries have been modified by canalization. In the last two decades, the philosophy of river management has changed considerably, and restoration of ecological integrity has become an important management goal. One appealing restoration approach is to create "...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Rohde S,Kienast F,Bürgi M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a conceptual study that examines the viability of the construction of the Kra Isthmus within the context of the five dimensions of megaproject success of Sovacool and Cooper (The governance of energy megaprojects: politics, hubris, and energy security, 2013)-social (governance), technological (systems), ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lau CY,Lee JW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a model for assessing the impact and interactions of stressors in the ecosystem of Lake Koronia, based on fuzzy inference, is presented in this paper. The proposed fuzzy inference model assesses the synergistic interactions among several significant stressors on fish production. These stressors incl...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ioannidou IA,Paraskevopoulos S,Tzionas P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid growth in marine sand mining for construction and other uses poses environmental challenges to coastal nations virtually worldwide. Yet the development of management policies, such as a system of fees imposed on operators for damage caused by mining, has been frustrated by a lack of studies to support such measu...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kim TG,Grigalunas T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enabling and enacting 'practical action' (i.e., purposeful and concerted collective action) in catchments is a key challenge in responding to a wide range of pressing catchment and natural resource management (NRM) issues. It is particularly a challenge in responding to 'wicked problems,' where generating action is no...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Patterson JJ,Smith C,Bellamy J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four beaches that share physiographic characteristics (sandy, wide, and long) but differ in socioeconomic and cultural terms (three are located in northwestern Mexico and one in California, USA) were evaluated by beach users. Surveys (565) composed of 36 questions were handed out to beach users on weekends and holiday...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Cervantes O,Espejel I,Arellano E,Delhumeau S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional method of identifying wildlife habitat distribution over large regions consists of pixel-based classification of satellite images into a suite of habitat classes used to select suitable habitat patches. Object-based classification is a new method that can achieve the same objective based on the segment...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Jobin B,Labrecque S,Grenier M,Falardeau G

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Depletion of vegetation by overgrazing in arid environments has long-lasting effects on the environmental quality over extended geographic areas. An adequate inspection of habitat changes requires scaled up procedures that would allow assessing end-points of environmental status in broad areas that would be based on p...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bertiller MB,Ares JO,Bisigato AJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil's Cuiabá-Santarém (BR-163) Highway provides a valuable example of ways in which decision-making procedures for infrastructure projects in tropical forest areas need to be reformulated in order to guarantee that environmental concerns are properly weighed. BR-163, which is slated to be paved as an export corrido...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The main objectives of this study were to identify the regions inFennoscandia where the critical loads of sulfur (S) and acidifying nitrogen(N) for lakes are exceeded and to investigate the consequences for depositionreductions, with special emphasis on the possible trade-offs between S and Ndeposition in order to a...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Posch M,Kamari J,Forsius M,Henriksen A,Wilander A

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To mitigate the adverse environmental impact of forest roads, especially degradation of endangered salmonid habitat, many public and private land managers in the western United States are actively decommissioning roads where practical and affordable. Road decommissioning is associated with reduced long-term environmen...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Thompson M,Sessions J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban ecosystems are increasingly influenced by residential yard care decisions. This had led researchers to focus on homeowner education programs when it comes to yard care. Typically, the success of programs designed to influence yard care is based on whether the target subject changes his or her behavior in a more ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Martini NF,Nelson KC,Dahmus ME

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program (BMAP) has always needed to collect and retain high-quality data on which to base its assessments of ecological status of streams and their recovery after remediation. Its formal quality assurance, data processing, and data management components all contribute ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Christensen SW,Brandt CC,McCracken MK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fee-fishing involves paying a fee for the privilege of fishing a body of water where fish populations are enhanced by stocking fish. Past literature on this activity has focused more on the operation of the enterprise and management of the fish than the people and site characteristics. The objectives of the study were...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Schuett MA,Pierskalla CD

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil's Samuel Dam, which formed a 540-km2 reservoir in the state of Rondônia in 1988, provides lessons for development decisions throughout Amazonia and in other tropical areas. The decision to build the dam was heavily influenced by its role in the political strategies of key decision makers. Samuel illustrates bot...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Least Developed Countries are likely to be hit the hardest by climate change and need focused efforts towards adaptation. Nepal recognizes that it needs to integrate climate change adaptation into various policies, but limited understanding of how to make these policies coherent is among the factors that hinder effect...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ranabhat S,Ghate R,Bhatta LD,Agrawal NK,Tankha S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study implements an exploratory data analysis of landscape metrics and a change detection analysis of land use and population density to assess landscape dynamics (1954-2008) in two physiographic zones (plain and hilly-mountain area) of Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. The two areas are characterized by different ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Smiraglia D,Ceccarelli T,Bajocco S,Perini L,Salvati L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resource planning processes on public lands in the United States are driven in large part by the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which dictates general processes for analyzing and disclosing the likely impacts of proposed actions. The outcomes of these processes are the result of ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stern MJ,Martin CA,Predmore SA,Morse WC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) has been observed to be declining on elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) winter range for many decades. To support elk management decisions, the SAVANNA ecosystem model was adapted to explore interactions between elk herbivory and aspen dynamics. The ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Weisberg PJ,Coughenour MB

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the human-nature interaction in a village in rural South Africa. It discusses preconditions, perceptions, and consequences of natural resource use, and places these findings into a regional and historical context. Applying an interdisciplinary perspective, the study uses interviews, questionnaires,...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Haag F,Hajdu F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to assess the biological water of the Iranian Tajan River using different metrics, i.e., a Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index (MMI) and a traits-based method. Twenty-eight physico-chemical parameters, 10 habitat factors, and abundance of macroinvertebrates were obtained for 17 sites....

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Aazami J,Esmaili Sari A,Abdoli A,Sohrabi H,Van den Brink PJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local scale has an important role in environmental management. In Spain, rapid industrialization has occurred in the last three decades, leading to substantial changes in socioeconomic relations and resulting in significant environmental degradation. This paper describes the environmental status of the township of Sax...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Maestre Gil FT

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of ecological restoration required to mitigate or compensate for environmental injury or habitat loss is often based on the goal of achieving ecological equivalence. However, few tools are available for estimating the extent of restoration required to achieve habitat services equivalent to those that were l...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Strange E,Galbraith H,Bickel S,Mills D,Beltman D,Lipton J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00