Community capacity for adaptation to climate-induced water shortages: linking institutional complexity and local actors.

abstract：:Biodiversity offsets are increasingly being used for securing biodiversity conservation outcomes as part of sustainable economic development to compensate for the residual unavoidable impacts of projects. Two recent New Zealand examples of biodiversity offsets are reviewed-while both are positive for biodiversity cons...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Norton DA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Collaboration of countries with an aim to share fresh surface water resources promises to generate potential joint benefits. Unfortunately, existing agreements lack the perspective and capacity to produce any real action in efficient cross-border water allocation. When that problem is encountered by any two adjacent...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lekakis JN

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Sound ecosystem management meshes socioeconomic attitudes and values with sustainable natural resource practices. Adaptive management is a model for guiding natural resource managers in this process. Ecosystems and the societies that use them are continually evolving. Therefore, managers must be flexible and adaptab...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： HANEY A,POWER RL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livelihoods of people living in many protected areas (PAs) around the world are in conflict with biodiversity conservation. In Mexico, the decrees of creation of biosphere reserves state that rural communities with the right to use buffer zones must avoid deforestation and their land uses must become sustainable, a ta...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Cortina-Villar S,Plascencia-Vargas H,Vaca R,Schroth G,Zepeda Y,Soto-Pinto L,Nahed-Toral J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea level rise (SLR) is posing a great inundation risk to coastal areas. Some coastal nesting species, including sea turtle species, have experienced diminished habitat from SLR. Contingent valuation method (CVM) was used in an effort to assess the economic loss impacts of SLR on sea turtle nesting habitats for Florid...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hamed A,Madani K,Von Holle B,Wright J,Milon JW,Bossick M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Greater Vancouver area has undergone significant land use and land cover (LULC) change over the past several decades, often adversely affecting stream health and water quality, particularly in those areas that have undergone the most urbanization. In this study 30 years of historical LULC and water quality data we...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Shupe S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ An important measure of the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the extent to which it achieves its goals for environmental protection and management. To determine this requires an examination of environmental outcomes for projects that have undergone EIA. The utility of the predecision stages ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Morrison-Saunders A,Bailey J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eutrophication is a serious water quality problem in estuaries receiving increasing anthropogenic nutrient loads. Managers undertaking nutrient-reduction strategies aimed at controlling estuarine eutrophication are faced with the challenge that upstream freshwater segments often are phosphorus (P)-limited, whereas mor...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Paerl HW,Valdes LM,Piehler MF,Stow CA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental indicators are often aggregated into a single index for various purposes in environmental studies. Aggregated indices derived from the same data set can differ, usually because the aggregated indices' sensitivities are not thoroughly analyzed. Furthermore, if a sensitivity analysis is carried out, it is ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Tran LT,O'Neill RV,Smith ER,Knight CG

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forests provide myriad ecosystem services that are vital to humanity. With climate change, we expect to see significant changes to forests that will alter the supply of these critical services and affect human well-being. To better understand the impacts of climate change on forest-based ecosystem services, we applied...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Susaeta A,Adams DC,Carter DR,Dwivedi P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We critically evaluate some of the key ecological assumptions underpinning the use of nutrient replacement as a means of recovering salmon populations and a range of other organisms thought to be linked to productive salmon runs. These assumptions include: (1) nutrient mitigation mimics the ecological roles of salmon,...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Collins SF,Marcarelli AM,Baxter CV,Wipfli MS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An index based method is developed that ranks the subwatersheds of a watershed based on their relative impacts on watershed response to anticipated land developments, and then applied to an urbanizing watershed in Eastern Pennsylvania. Simulations with a semi-distributed hydrologic model show that computed low- and hi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kalin L,Hantush MM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed at determining, under field conditions, early interactions between planted cypress seedlings and their associated shrubs in a mesic area of Andean Patagonia and, in a nursery, the effects of increasing light availability on cypress performance when soil water was not a limiting factor. The field e...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Pafundi L,Urretavizcaya MF,Defossé GE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article stresses the importance of within-government capacity build as the optimal approach to minimizing landslide risk to the most vulnerable communities in the developing world. Landslide risk is an integrated issue that demands strong managerial leadership and multidisciplinary inclusion to develop structures...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Anderson M,Holcombe L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field study at Coeur d'Alene Lake, Idaho, USA, was conducted between October 1998 and August 2001 to examine the potential importance of sediment-water interactions on contaminant transport and to provide the first direct measurements of the benthic flux of dissolved solutes of environmental concern in this lake. Be...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kuwabara JS,Carter JL,Topping BR,Fend SV,Woods PF,Berelson WM,Balistrieri LS

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Siting hazardous waste facilities is an extremely complex and difficult endeavor. Public aversion to the construction of these facilities in or near their community often results in concerted opposition, referred to as the NIMBY syndrome. For the most part, siting processes do not fail because of inadequate environm...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kuhn RG,Ballard KR

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastic debris, specifically microplastic in the aquatic environment, is an escalating environmental crisis. Efforts at national scales to reduce or ban microplastics in personal care products are starting to pay off, but this will not affect those materials already in the environment or those that result from unregul...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Conkle JL,Báez Del Valle CD,Turner JW

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdoor water use is a key component in arid city water systems for achieving sustainable water use and ensuring water security. Using evapotranspiration (ET) calculations as a proxy for outdoor water consumption, the objectives of this research are to quantify outdoor water consumption of different land use and land ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kaplan S,Myint SW,Fan C,Brazel AJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding climate variability in a winegrowing region is fundamental to understanding how its vineyards can adapt to climate change. For Uruguay, studying the vulnerability and adaptive responses of vineyards to climate change and climate variability is relevant due to its winegrowing region's economic importance ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fourment M,Ferrer M,Barbeau G,Quénol H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspended solids or sediments can be pollutants in rivers, but they are also an important component of lotic food webs. Suspended sediment data for rivers were obtained from a United States-wide water quality database for 622 stations. Data for particulate nitrogen, suspended carbon, discharge, watershed area, land us...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dodds WK,Whiles MR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ It has been recognized for a long time that data transformation methods capable of achieving normality of distributions could have a crucial role in statistical analysis, especially towards an efficient application of techniques such as analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis. Normality is a basic assu...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mateu J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for defining and retrieving reference conditions for large rivers were explored with emphasis on hydromorphologic and biologic quality indicators. For a set of four large rivers in the European Western Plains ecoregion, i.e., the rivers Meuse, Loire, Allier, and Dordogne, reference reaches were selected based ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Van Looy K,Meire P,Wasson JG

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin (GLB), corn acreage has been expanding since 2005 in response to high demand for corn as an ethanol feedstock. This study integrated remote sensing-derived products and the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) within a geographic information system (GIS) modeling environment to ass...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Shao Y,Lunetta RS,Macpherson AJ,Luo J,Chen G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desertification directly threatens more than 250 million people and one third of the earth's land surface. Although it is well known that desertification could be reversed in most cases if the intensity of land use were reduced, there have been no studies on how to achieve this reversed desertification on a large scal...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Peng Y,Jiang G,Liu M,Niu S,Yu S,Biswas DK,Zhang Q,Shi X,Yang Q

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Avança Brasil" (Forward Brazil) is a package of 338 projects throughout Brazil; the portion of the plan to be carried out in Brazil's Legal Amazon region totals US$43 billion over 8 years, US$20 billion of which would be for infrastructure causing environmental damage. Brazil's environmental impact assessment system ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing in-depth, elite interviews, this empirical research contributes to understanding the dynamics among policy windows, policy change, and organizational learning. First, although much of the research on agenda setting-how issues attract enough attention that action is taken to address them-has been conducted at...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Michaels S,Goucher NP,McCarthy D

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-boundary coordination is a tool for ecosystem management whereby landowners voluntarily coordinate management practices toward economic and/or ecological landscape-scale outcomes (e.g., fiber, invasive species control, habitat). Past research indicates that it may be particularly applicable on landscapes that in...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gass RJ,Rickenbach M,Schulte LA,Zeuli K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farmland habitat diversity in marginal European landscapes changed significantly in the past decades. Further changes toward homogenization are expected, particularly in the course of European agricultural policy. Based on three alternative transfer payment schemes, we modeled spatially explicit potential effects on t...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Reger B,Sheridan P,Simmering D,Otte A,Waldhardt R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although changes in depth to groundwater occur naturally, anthropogenic alterations may exacerbate these fluctuations and, thus, affect vegetation reliant on groundwater. These effects include changes in physiology, structure, and community dynamics, particularly in arid regions where groundwater can be an important w...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Naumburg E,Mata-Gonzalez R,Hunter RG,McLendon T,Martin DW

更新日期：2005-06-01 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