The impact of different grazing periods in dry grasslands on the expansive grass Arrhenatherum elatius L. and on woody species.

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：:Living plants have been used for a very long time throughout the world in structures against soil erosion, as traces have been found dating back to the first century BC. Widely practiced in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bioengineering was somewhat abandoned in the middle of the twentie...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Evette A,Labonne S,Rey F,Liebault F,Jancke O,Girel J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulnerability assessment is considered an effective tool in establishing monitoring networks required for controlling potential pollution. The aim of this work is to propose a new integrated methodology to assess actual and forecasted groundwater vulnerability by including land-use change impact on groundwater quality...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lima ML,Zelaya K,Massone H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil's Samuel Dam, which formed a 540-km2 reservoir in the state of Rondônia in 1988, provides lessons for development decisions throughout Amazonia and in other tropical areas. The decision to build the dam was heavily influenced by its role in the political strategies of key decision makers. Samuel illustrates bot...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic differences in the Posidonia oceanica meadow of Monterosso al Mare (NW Mediterranean, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) "Cinque Terre") were compared in three stations, at an increasing distance from a source of impact (beach nourishment) in the recent decade. Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis showed a hig...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Micheli C,Cupido R,Lombardi C,Belmonte A,Peirano A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid growth of intensive animal industries in southeast Queensland, Australia, has led to large volumes of animal waste production, which possess serious environmental problems in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB). This study presents a method of selecting sites for the safe application of animal waste as fertiliser to ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Basnet BB,Apan AA,Raine SR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk-assessment methods are useful in collecting data that can help decision making to prevent the introduction of new species that have the potential of invading as well as in management of established taxa. Not only the complexity and unaffordability of available pre-introduction risk-assessment models make them rar...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Seburanga JL,Bizuru E,Mwavu EN,Kampungu KG,Gatesire T,Kaplin BA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The species richness of shoreline vegetation of unregulated lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada, is known to increase as a function of catchment area, a topographic variable governing water level fluctuations. Predictions based on catchment area however, fail to account for richness patterns at the margins of lakes enlarge...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hill NM,Keddy PA,Wisheu IC

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:/ Past methods of prioritizing sites for protection and restoration have focused on lists of criteria or algorithms. These methods lack a common underlying framework, such that the process is explicit and repeatable, assumptions are highlighted, and commonalities and differences among prioritizations can be readily as...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hyman JB,Leibowitz SG

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:This paper proposes a model to evaluate the environmental impact of manufacturing processes. This model uses the potency factor approach to classify environmental impacts into five ecological health impact groups and uses their toxicological, cancer, and physical effects as the bases to rate the seven groups of human ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Li CP,Hui IK

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water quality from forested landscapes tends to be very high but can deteriorate during and after silvicultural activities. Practices such as forest harvesting, site preparation, road construction/use, and stream crossings have been shown to contribute sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants to adjacent streams. Alt...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Anderson CJ,Lockaby BG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 200 years, many rivers in industrialized countries have been modified by canalization. In the last two decades, the philosophy of river management has changed considerably, and restoration of ecological integrity has become an important management goal. One appealing restoration approach is to create "...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Rohde S,Kienast F,Bürgi M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four biomass wastes (rice husk, coffee husk, coarse wool, and landfill wood) were added with biochar and polypropylene (PP) to manufacture biocomposites. Individual biomasses were tested for their combustion behavior using cone calorimeter. Biocomposites were analyzed for their fire/thermal, mechanical, and morphologi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Das O,Kim NK,Hedenqvist MS,Lin RJT,Sarmah AK,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The Itapiranga Sustainable Logging Plan provides an example of how Brazil's licensing system functions for logging companies in the state of Amazonas. Two questions need to be dealt with: "How sustainable can logging in the Amazon be?" and "What and how effective are existing legal mechanisms to deal with logging pr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Eve E,Arguelles FA,Fearnside PM

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances by insects have considerable effect on the heterogeneity of forested landscapes in North America. Responding to calls for bringing human dimensions of landscape disturbance and heterogeneity into ecological assessments and management strategies, this paper explores linkages between biophysical, socioecono...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Flint C,Qin H,Ganning JP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ We identified and ranked 108 resident and migratory wildlife taxa on John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) that were vulnerable to local, regional, or global extinction. We ranked taxa based on their vulnerability to extinction, their potential role for maintaining faunal integrity, and the relevance of KSC for maintai...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Breininger DR,Barkaszi MJ,Smith RB,Oddy DM,Provancha JA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence and relative importance of insecticides and other agricultural stressors in determining variability in invertebrate communities in small streams in intensive soy-production regions of Brazil and Paraguay. In Paraguay we sampled 17 sites on tributaries of the Pirapó River in the state of I...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hunt L,Marrochi N,Bonetto C,Liess M,Buss DF,Vieira da Silva C,Chiu MC,Resh VH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking 109 gymnosperm species in China as a case, the uncertainty and risk of losing habitat areas of gymnosperm species under future climate conditions were investigated via representative concentration pathways climate change scenarios, fuzzy set classifications and Monte Carlo techniques. Under nonrandom climate ch...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Wu J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resource trustee agencies must determine how much, and what type of environmental restoration will compensate for injuries to natural resources that result from releases of hazardous substances or oil spills. To fulfill this need, trustees, and other natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) practitioners have...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Baker M,Domanski A,Hollweg T,Murray J,Lane D,Skrabis K,Taylor R,Moore T,DiPinto L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few decades, the demand for construction grade sand is increasing in many parts of the world due to rapid economic development and subsequent growth of building activities. This, in many of the occasions, has resulted in indiscriminate mining of sand from in-stream and floodplain areas leading to severe da...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sreebha S,Padmalal D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study implements an exploratory data analysis of landscape metrics and a change detection analysis of land use and population density to assess landscape dynamics (1954-2008) in two physiographic zones (plain and hilly-mountain area) of Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. The two areas are characterized by different ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Smiraglia D,Ceccarelli T,Bajocco S,Perini L,Salvati L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riparian zones are critical for protecting water quality and wildlife, but are often impacted by human activities. Ongoing threats and uncertainty about the effectiveness of buffer regulations emphasize the importance of monitoring riparian buffers through time. We developed a method to rapidly categorize buffer width...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Owers KA,Albanese B,Litts T

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:We describe the population ecology of two tropical deciduous trees, Bombax ceiba leiocarpum A. Robyns and Brachychiton diversifolius R. Br., which are in high demand for Indigenous sculpture production in Arnhem Land, Australia. We monitored tagged populations of both species at two locations f...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Koenig J,Griffiths A

更新日期：2012-10-01 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 impact of disturbance from construction work around Cardiff Bay, south Wales, on the densities and feeding behavior of seven waterbird species was studied over an 11-year period. Construction of a barrage across the mouth of the bay has subsequently resulted in its impoundment; other major works included the const...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Burton NH,Rehfisch MM,Clark NA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is protected by conservation policy throughout its range. Efforts to protect the species from further decline demand detailed understanding of its habitat requirements, which have not yet been rigorously defined. Current methods of identifying gopher tortoise habitat typically...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kowal VA,Schmolke A,Kanagaraj R,Bruggeman D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00