Spatial targeting of agri-environmental measures: cost-effectiveness and distributional consequences.

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：: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：:Estimates of potential and actual C sequestration require areal information about various types of management activities. Forest surveys, land use data, and agricultural statistics contribute information enabling calculation of the impacts of current and historical land management on C sequestration in biomass (in for...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Conant RT,Paustian K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased nutrient enrichment in Mediterranean standing waters has enhanced the risk of being affected by cyanobacterial blooms. Because phosphorus abatement is shaped as a crucial strategy for controlling eutrophication, this study introduces a structural thinking, experiential learning laboratory with animation dyna...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Zaragüeta M,Acebes P

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Hydroelectric dams represent major investments and major sources of environmental and social impacts. Powerful forces surround the decision-making process on public investments in the various options for the generation and conservation of electricity. Brazil's proposed Belo Monte Dam (formerly Kararaô) and its upstrea...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research continues to show that pharmaceutical environmental contamination causes adverse effects to aquatic life. There are also public health risks associated with pharmaceuticals because in-home reserves of medications provide opportunities for accidental poisoning and intentional medication abuse. Pharmaceutical t...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stoddard KI,Hodge V,Maxey G,Tiwari C,Cready C,Huggett DB

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drylands in northern China are expected to face dramatic land system change in the context of socioeconomic development and environmental conservation. Recent studies have addressed changes of land cover with socioeconomic development in the drylands in northern China. However, the changes in land use intensity an...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Liu Z,Verburg PH,Wu J,He C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

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：:/ Tree ring analysis was used to document the long-term effects of municipal wastewater on the growth rate of baldcypress [Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich.]. The study site, a swamp in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, has received municipal wastewater for the last 40 years. Growth chronologies from 1920 to 1992 were develop...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hesse ID,DAY JR JW,Doyle TW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many California streams have been adversely affected by sedimentation caused by historic and current land uses, including timber harvesting. The impacts of timber harvesting and logging transportation systems on erosion and sediment delivery can be directly measured, modeled, or inferred from water quality measurement...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Harris RR,Sullivan K,Cafferata PH,Munn JR,Faucher KM

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：: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：:/ 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：:When central governments decentralize natural resource management (NRM), they often retain an interest in the local efforts and provide funding for them. Such outside investments can serve an important role in moving community-based efforts forward. At the same time, they can represent risks to the community if govern...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Koontz TM,Sen S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has always a step-zero, i.e., an initial phase when the idea is incepted, communicated and negotiated among stakeholders. What happens during this phase is likely to have an impact later on. If not done right, the management of the MPA may encounter problems at later sta...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gonzalez C,Jentoft S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study adopts and modifies the WWF Rapid assessment and prioritization of protected areas management methodology (RAPPAM) to evaluate the management effectiveness of five protected areas in Taiwan. The results indicate that, unlike the situation in most developing countries, the threats and pressures faced by prot...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lu DJ,Kao CW,Chao CL

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：: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：:This paper assesses the significance of stakeholder discourses on uses of water by aquaculture for public policy. Our discourse analysis focuses on the experiences with inland aquaculture in Thailand, drawing from interviews with stakeholders, and evidence in public documents such as newspapers and television news rep...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lebel L,Lebel P,Chuah CJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:This study presents a GIS-based database framework used to assess aggregate terrestrial habitat impacts from multiple highway construction projects in California, USA. Transportation planners need such impact assessment tools to effectively address additive biological mitigation obligations. Such assessments can reduc...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Thorne JH,Girvetz EH,McCoy MC

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The impacts of land use and land cover (LULC) change in buffer zones surrounding protected ecological reserves have important implications for the management and conservation of these protected areas. This study examines the spatial and temporal patterns of LULC change along the boundary of Rio Abiseo National Park in...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kintz DB,Young KR,Crews-Meyer KA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European bison, the largest mammal in Europe, after being exterminated in the wild and then restored during the 20th century is still listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) as a species vulnerable to extinction. However, the increasing number of European biso...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hofman-Kamińska E,Kowalczyk R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00