An approach for evaluating the repeatability of rapid wetland assessment methods: the effects of training and experience.

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：:Studies have shown that ecological restoration projects are more likely to gain public support if they simultaneously increase important human services that natural resources provide to people. River restoration projects have the potential to influence many of the societal functions (e.g., flood control, water quality...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Golet GH,Roberts MD,Larsen EW,Luster RA,Unger R,Werner G,White GG

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a decision aid frequently used in the field of forest management planning. It includes the evaluation of multiple criteria such as the production of timber and non-timber forest products and tangible as well as intangible values of ecosystem services (ES). Hence, it is benefi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Uhde B,Hahn WA,Griess VC,Knoke T

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Populations of many shorebird species are declining; habitat loss and degradation are among the leading causes for these declines. Shorebirds use a variety of habitats along interior migratory routes including managed moist soil units, natural wetlands, sandbars, and agricultural lands such as harvested rice fields. L...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lehnen SE,Krementz DG

更新日期：2013-08-01 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 United States, forest governance practices have utilized a variety of public participation mechanisms to improve decision-making and instill public legitimacy. However, comments, one of the most frequent and accessible avenues for the public to provide input, has received little attention. Further, there has be...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： De'Arman KJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green space plays an important role in complex urban ecosystems and provides significant ecosystem services with environmental, aesthetic, recreational and economic benefits. Beijing is the capital city of China and has a large population of about 15.81 million. Construction of green spaces is an important part of sus...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Xu X,Duan X,Sun H,Sun Q

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rivers in developing and emerging countries often lack good water quality. Tools to assess the water quality in rivers, including identification of possible sources of pollution, are therefore of increasing importance. The aim of this study is to apply mathematical material flow and spatial land use analyses to identi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kupkanchanakul W,Kwonpongsagoon S,Bader HP,Scheidegger R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CITYgreen software has become a commonly used tool to quantify the benefits of urban shade trees. Despite its frequent use, little research has been conducted to validate results of the CITYgreen energy conservation module. The first objective of this study is to perform a familiar application of CITYgreen software to...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Carver AD,Unger DR,Parks CL

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kodagu district produces 2% of the world's coffee, in complex, multistoried agroforestry systems. The forests of the district harbour a large population of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). The combined effects of high elephant density and major landscape changes due to the expansion of coffee cultivation are the ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bal P,Nath CD,Nanaya KM,Kushalappa CG,Garcia C

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:In human dominated landscapes, ecosystems are under increasing pressures caused by urbanization and infrastructure development. In Alpine valleys remnant natural areas are increasingly affected by habitat fragmentation and loss. In these contexts, there is a growing risk of local extinction for wildlife populations; h...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Scolozzi R,Geneletti D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates farmers' preferences to participate in payment contracts to adopt silvopastoral systems in Ecuador. A choice experiment was used to elicit preferences between different contract attributes, including differing payment amounts and land management requirements. The research was carried out in the...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Raes L,Speelman S,Aguirre N

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Spatio-temporal trends in infrastructure footprints, energy production, and landscape alteration were assessed for the Eagle Ford Shale of Texas. The period of analysis was over four 2-year periods (2006-2014). Analyses used high-resolution imagery, as well as pipeline data to map EF infrastructure. Landscape conditio...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Pierre JP,Young MH,Wolaver BD,Andrews JR,Breton CL

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Anoxia can restrict species establishment in aquatic systems and the artificial promotion of these conditions can provide an effective control strategy for invasive molluscs. Low abundances (2-20 m(-2)) of the nonnative bivalve, Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea), were first recorded in Lake Tahoe, CA-NV in 2002 and by 2...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Wittmann ME,Chandra S,Reuter JE,Schladow SG,Allen BC,Webb KJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active exchanges of water and dissolved material between the stream and groundwater in many porous sand- and gravel-bed rivers create a dynamic ecotone called the hyporheic zone. Because it lies between two heavily exploited freshwater resources-rivers and groundwater-the hyporheic zone is vulnerable to impacts coming...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hancock PJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:We examined long-term (10 years) meadow plant community responses to (1) livestock grazing under riparian grazing utilization limits; (2) suspension of livestock grazing; and (3) meadow site wetness and precipitation on the Inyo National Forest, California. Observed trends in meadow plant species richness, diversity, ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Freitas MR,Roche LM,Weixelman D,Tate KW

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Floodplain forests are flood-dependent ecosystems. They rely on well-timed, periodic floods for the provision of regeneration sites and on tapered flood recession curves for the successful establishment of seedlings. These overbank flood events are described as "regeneration flows." Once floodplain forest trees are es...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hughes FM,Rood SB

更新日期：2003-07-01 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 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

abstract：:In recent years, altered forest conditions, climate change, and the increasing numbers of homes built in fire prone areas has meant that wildfires are affecting more people. An important part of minimizing the potential negative impacts of wildfire is engaging homeowners in mitigating the fire hazard on their land. It...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： McCaffrey SM,Stidham M,Toman E,Shindler B

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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