A framework for assessing climate change impacts on water and watershed systems.

abstract：:Sewage discharge from an ocean outfall is subject to water quality standards, which are often stated in probabilistic terms. Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) has been used in the past to evaluate the ability of a designed outfall to meet water quality standards or compliance guidelines associated with sewage discharges. I...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mukhtasor,Lye LM,Sharp JJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing evidence base demonstrating that atmospheric nitrogen deposition presents a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem function in acid grasslands in Western Europe. Here, we report the findings of a workshop held for European policy makers to assess the perceived importance of reactive nitrogen depositio...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stevens CJ,Gowing DJ,Wotherspoon KA,Alard D,Aarrestad PA,Bleeker A,Bobbink R,Diekmann M,Dise NB,Duprè C,Dorland E,Gaudnik C,Rotthier S,Soons MB,Corcket E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ This paper examines the use of the European dune pioneer plant Ammophila arenaria (marram or European beach grass) for dune stabilization in South Africa in the past and present, its present distribution in South Africa, and the perceptions of coastal management agencies and the public about its further use. The pla...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hertling UM,Lubke RA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant environmental determinants of aquatic communities have been a persistent topic for many years. Interactions between natural and anthropogenic characteristics within the aquatic environment influence fish communities in complex ways that make the effect of a single characteristic difficult to ascertain. Re...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Schnier S,Cai X,Cao Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrification is a critical biogeochemical process that results in the conversion of nitrate to volatile products, and thus is a major route of nitrogen loss from terrestrial environments. Riparian buffers are an important management tool that is widely utilized to protect water from non-point source pollution. Howe...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Wu L,Osmond DL,Graves AK,Burchell MR,Duckworth OW

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:When marketing environmentally responsible packaged products, the producer is confronted with consumer beliefs concerning the environmental friendliness of packaging materials. When making environmentally conscious packaging decisions, these consumer beliefs should be taken into account alongside the technical guideli...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Van Dam YK

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) from Macquarie Island were tracked by satellite during the late incubation period in 1998-1999 to determine the overlap of the foraging zone of king penguins with an area to be declared a marine protected area (MPA) near the island. While all penguins left the colon...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Wienecke B,Robertson G

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change will further exacerbate wetland deterioration, especially in the Mediterranean region. On the one side, it will accelerate the decline in the populations and species of plants and animals, this resulting in an impoverishment of biological abundance. On the other one, it will also promote biotic homogeni...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Faccioli M,Riera Font A,Torres Figuerola CM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Much information is available on changes that occur in natural resources from both spatially-explicit data on environmental conditions and models of the interactions of these conditions and resources with human activities. The strategy for assessing land-use impacts on natural resources developed in this paper provi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dale VH,KING AW,MANN LK,WASHINGTON-ALLEN RA,McCORD RA

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：:"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：:Rehabilitated riparian zones in agricultural landscapes enhance environmental integrity and provide environmental services such as carbon (C) sequestration. This study quantified differences in organic matter input, soil biochemical characteristics, and soil respiration in a 25-year-old rehabilitated (RH), grass (GRS)...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Oelbermann M,Raimbault BA,Gordon AM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ A rapid development and approval process was employed by Ducks Unlimited Canada and other stakeholders to restore a 1246-ha (3079-acre) northern prairie wetland in southern Alberta, Canada, with 3640 m3/day (800,000 US gallons) of municipal wastewater and beef processing wastewater. A large nongovernmental organizat...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： White JS,Bayley SE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision making related to incidental take of endangered species under U.S. law lends itself well to a structured decision making approach. Incidental take is the permitted killing, harming, or harassing of a protected species under the law as long as that harm is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity and does no...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： McGowan CP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Describing patterns in the landscape and interpreting the effects of these patterns on flora, fauna, and other factors has been of long-standing interest. Many descriptors have been developed, and these aggregate factors into a single index. The identical numerical result for a multifactor index can be attained by u...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： GILES JR RH,TRANI MK

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal and spatial vegetation structure has impact on biodiversity qualities. Yet, current schemes of biotope mapping do only to a limited extend incorporate these factors in the mapping. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the application of a modified biotope mapping scheme that includes temporal and spatial ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gao T,Qiu L,Hammer M,Gunnarsson A

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：: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：:Cordilleran cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis [D.Don] Pic. Serm. et Bizarri) forests occupy 140,000 ha along a sharp environmental gradient of central Andean-Patagonia in Argentina. Every summer, about 3200 ha of these forests are affected by wildfires, taking thereafter long time to recover. To accelerate forest recove...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Urretavizcaya MF,Gonda HE,Defossé GE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Each year damage to forests caused by snow and wind causes high economic losses. In Sweden, approximately 4 million m3 are damaged annually by snow and wind, roughly corresponding to a value of US$150 million, and in Europe, the damage amounts to hundreds of millions of US dollars each year. To help to reduce these ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Valinger E,Fridman J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on government and other relevant documentation, this paper explores the conceptual linkage between population, development, and waste management in Botswana and the implications of this relationship for global climate change. Population is increasing, albeit at a decreasing rate. Spatially, the population is bec...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gwebu TD

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:During the past decades, the traditional state monopoly in urban water management has been debated heavily, resulting in different forms and degrees of private sector involvement across the globe. Since the 1990s, China has also started experiments with new modes of urban water service management and governance in whi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Zhong L,Mol AP,Fu T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tidal marshes are increasingly vulnerable to degradation or loss from eutrophication, land-use changes, and accelerating sea-level rise, making restoration necessary to recover ecosystem services. To evaluate effects of restoration planting density and sea-level rise on ecosystem function (i.e., nitrogen removal), we ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Martin S,Sparks EL,Constantin AJ,Cebrian J,Cherry JA

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated differences in vegetation composition and dynamics for two globally rare ecosystems, bracken-grasslands and northern-dry forests of northern Wisconsin. These ecosystems commonly have been viewed as degraded pine barrens. Bracken-grasslands contained a high dominance of exotic species, low native richne...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Nielsen SE,Haney A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific understanding of the recreation experience and the environmentally responsible behavior of nature-based tourists is limited. This study examines the relationship among the recreation experience, environmental attitude, biospheric value, and the general and site-specific environmentally responsible behav...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lee TH,Jan FH

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic increase of fire hazard in wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) has required more detailed fuel management programs to preserve ecosystem functions and human settlements. Designing effective fuel treatment strategies allows to achieve goals such as resilient landscapes, fire-adapted communities, and ecosystem...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Elia M,Lafortezza R,Lovreglio R,Sanesi G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigated vegetative and soil properties in four created mitigation wetlands, ranging in age from three to ten years, all created in the Virginia Piedmont. Vegetation attributes included percent cover, richness (S), diversity (H'), floristic quality assessment index (FQAI), prevalence index (PI), and prod...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dee SM,Ahn C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, the ecological condition of streams and rivers has been impaired by agricultural practices such as broadscale modification of catchments, high nutrient and sediment inputs, loss of riparian vegetation, and altered hydrology. Typical responses include channel incision, excessive sedimentation, declining wate...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lester RE,Boulton AJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00