Multi-criteria assessment of tensions in resource use at continental scale: a proof of concept with Australian rangelands.

abstract：:Monitoring long-term changes in aquatic biodiversity requires the effective use of historical data that were collected with different methods and varying levels of effort. Aggregating data into different spatial scales can control for such differences and provide a robust framework for monitoring distribution trends. ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kirk MA,Wissinger SA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community participation in climate change adaptation (CCA) programs has been advocated for long, but its implementation remains uncertain. There is also very little understanding and consensus on how and to what extent local communities can and should be involved in these projects. Arguably, both the concept and pract...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Samaddar S,Oteng-Ababio M,Dayour F,Ayaribila A,Obeng FK,Ziem R,Yokomatsu M

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half a decade has passed since the December 26th 2004 tsunami hit the Indian coast leaving a trail of ecological, economic and human destruction in its wake. We reviewed the coastal ecological research carried out in India in the light of the tsunami. In addition, we also briefly reviewed the ecological rese...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mukherjee N,Dahdouh-Guebas F,Kapoor V,Arthur R,Koedam N,Sridhar A,Shanker K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Limit values are legal limits for the concentrations of substances in the environment. They must be agreed upon in a consensual procedure between science, economics/technology, and political forces. This is a crucial political precondition for their social acceptance. The arguments put forward to justify their exped...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dieter HH,Grohmann A,Thompson D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southeastern United States is a global center of freshwater biotic diversity, but much of the region's aquatic biodiversity is at risk from stream degradation. Nonpoint pollution sources are responsible for 70% of that degradation, and controlling nonpoint pollution from agriculture, urbanization, and silviculture...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Potter KM,Cubbage FW,Blank GB,Schaberg RH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical requirement for a successful river restoration project in a dynamic gravel bed river is that it be compatible with natural hydraulic and sediment transport processes operating at the reach scale. The potential for failure is greater at locations where the influence of natural processes is inconsistent with ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： DeVries P,Aldrich R

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Although pharmaceuticals treat illnesses and prevent diseases in humans and animals, ironically, they are now among the emerging pollutants in the environment. As individuals continue to consume medicines, households can become a primary source of pharmaceutical pollutants. This paper explains relevant Malaysian law a...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ariffin M,Zakili TST

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Street lighting on coastal roadways is often visible at sea turtle nesting beaches, and disrupts the nocturnal orientation of hatchlings as they crawl toward the sea. Our objective was to determine whether an alternative lighting system (light-emitting diodes, embedded in the roadway pavement) prevented orientation di...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bertolotti L,Salmon M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands in the Sanjiang Plain are rich in biodiversity and natural resources in the northeast of China. However, this wetland area has decreased in size and deteriorated in quality owing to expanded agricultural activities since the 1950s. Converting farmlands to wetlands is necessary to improve these conditions. Usi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Huang N,Wang Z,Liu D,Niu Z

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red sesbania is an invasive South American shrub that has rapidly expanded its range along California waterways, emphasizing the need to prioritize eradication sites at a regional scale. To accomplish this, we updated baseline location data in summer 2010 using field surveys throughout the state. We collected relevant...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Robison R,Barve N,Owens C,Skurka Darin G,DiTomaso JM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive management leitmotiv of "learning to manage and managing to learn" sets out an attractive agenda for dealing with the overwhelming complexity of environmental phenomena that humans have problematized. To ensure that this rallying cry translates into effective action, it is important to give consideration ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stubbs M,Lemon M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The creation of protected conservation areas may result in protracted conflicts between stakeholders. In this study we examine the drivers of anthropogenic wildfire ignitions in the National Park of "los Alerces" (NPA) in Patagonia, Argentina. The NPA was established in 1937 to protect the native "andino-patagónico" f...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Seijo F,Godoy MM,Guglielmin D,Ciampoli C,Ebright S,Picco O,Defossé G

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:With 207 million ha of forest covering 22% of its land area, China ranks fifth in the world in forest area. Rapid economic growth, climate change, and forest disturbances pose new, complex challenges for forest research and management. Progress in meeting these challenges is relevant beyond China, because China's fore...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： He HS,Shifley SR,Thompson FR 3rd

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:The concept of institutional interplay (i.e., the interaction between institutions) is critical if the challenges to multilevel governance are to be better understood and addressed. Drawing on the literature on institutional interplay, this paper develops an analytical approach to examine challenges to multilevel coas...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gonçalves LR,Fidelman P,Turra A,Young O

更新日期：2020-10-25 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：:Parameters about composition of refuse such as mass percentage of biodegradable matter, volatile solid, organic carbon, cellulose, total sugar, and settlement were monitored and analyzed in a large-scale experimental unit. The empirical formulas between composition and refuse age were established in terms of the data ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Jiangying L,Dimin X,Youcai Z,Shaowei C,Guojian L,Qi Z

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Little Miami River (LMR) basin, dominated by agriculture, contains two geologically-distinct regions; a glaciated northern till plain with soils three times more permeable than a southern, pre-Wisconsinan drift plain. The influences of two landscape measures, percent row crop cover (%RCC, computed at three spatial...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Daniel FB,Griffith MB,Troyer ME

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:/ Time and money could be saved and better invested on environmental monitoring and assessment programs if redundant elements in biological communities were identified. Either aggregation of species into higher taxonomic groupings or selection of indicator taxa are known procedures to eliminate redundancy in large fau...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Saiz-Salinas JI,González-Oreja JA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and communicating the links among human activities and marine ecosystem services are fundamental for ecosystem-based management, which aims at attaining ecological, economic and social sustainability in the use of our seas. Relationships are typically complex and may differ between geographic areas. Here...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bryhn A,Kraufvelin P,Bergström U,Vretborn M,Bergström L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study examines the coastal zone problems focusing on the existing conflicts between tourism and commercial activities on the coasts of Edremit Bay, Turkey, and attempts to suggest solutions to these problems. Edremit Bay is a characteristic example of such a conflict in collective use of natural resources. T...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Irtem E,Kabdasli S,Azbar N

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimated cost of repairing damage caused to recreational sites annually is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. These depreciative activities also reduce the quality of visitors' experiences in the damaged areas. Indirect methods, such as visitor education through brochures and signs, continue to be the least ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Winter PL,Sagarin BJ,Rhoads K,Barrett DW,Cialdini RB

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:Ecosystem-based approaches to aquaculture integrate environmental concerns into planning. Social-ecological systems research can improve this approach by explicitly relating ecological and social dynamics of change at multiple scales. Doing so requires not only addressing direct effects of aquaculture but also conside...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Benessaiah K,Sengupta R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the age of climate change, the demand and lack of pure water challenges many communities. Substantial amount of effort is put in every year to manage and restore degraded lakes while the long-term effects of those efforts are only poorly known or monitored. Oxygenation, or aeration, is used extensively for the rest...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Nygrén NA,Tapio P,Horppila J

更新日期：2017-11-01 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