The Kra Isthmus Canal: A New Strategic Solution for China's Energy Consumption Scenario?

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：:/ Aquatic resources in Soda Butte Creek within Yellowstone National Park, USA, continue to be threatened by heavy metals from historical mining and milling activities that occurred upstream of the park's boundary. This includes the residue of gold, silver, and copper ore mining and processing in the early 1900s near C...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： NIMMO DR,WILLOX MJ,LAFRANCOIS TD,CHAPMAN PL,BRINKMAN SF,GREENE JC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a vexing problem to achieve a consensus about the proper scientific way to assess population viability for habitat conservation plans. Rather than a hypothesis-testing approach, here it is proposed to select population models, estimate extinction parameters, and assess prediction uncertainty using a pragmatic, e...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： FOLEY P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we present a framework for assessing climate change impacts on water and watershed systems to support management decision-making. The framework addresses three issues complicating assessments of climate change impacts--linkages across spatial scales, linkages across temporal scales, and linkages across...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Johnson TE,Weaver CP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how large-scale bioenergy production can affect biodiversity and ecosystems is important if society is to meet current and future sustainable development goals. A variety of bioenergy production systems have been established within different contexts throughout the Pan American region, with wide-ranging ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kline KL,Martinelli FS,Mayer AL,Medeiros R,Oliveira CO,Sparovek G,Walter A,Venier LA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 use of voluntary programs targeting resource conservation on private land has become increasingly prevalent in environmental policy. Voluntary programs potentially offer significant benefits over regulatory and market-based approaches. This article examines the factors affecting landowner participation in voluntar...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kauneckis D,York AM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water governance occurs at multiple levels, from the local to the supra-national, which are often highly fragmented. The interconnected nature of water requires interactions among these multiple governance levels. Public participation may foster such interactions. Thus, many water management reforms involved decentral...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hassenforder E,Barreteau O,Daniell KA,Ferrand N,Kabaseke C,Muhumuza M,Tibasiima T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of forests, rangelands, and wetlands on public lands, including the restoration of degraded lands, has the potential to increase carbon sequestration or reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions beyond what is occurring today. In this paper we discuss several policy options for increasing GHG mitigation on publ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Olander LP,Cooley DM,Galik CS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ozegahara peatland, in the Nikko-Oze National Park in Japan, is ecologically significant because of its oligotrophic environment; it is one of the most strictly preserved areas in the country. The isotope ratio of nitrogen (15N/14N) and carbon (13C/12C) and C/N ratio of peat moss (Sphagnum spp.) and sundew (Droser...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Akagi T,Osawa K

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Management of conservation conflicts is a challenge of growing relevance for the effectiveness of protected areas worldwide, particularly in the case of socially inclusive areas such as biosphere reserves. For a successful management of the protected area, is critical to consider the social use of natural resources ca...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Oliva M,García-Frapolli E,Porter-Bolland L,Montiel S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid growth in marine sand mining for construction and other uses poses environmental challenges to coastal nations virtually worldwide. Yet the development of management policies, such as a system of fees imposed on operators for damage caused by mining, has been frustrated by a lack of studies to support such measu...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kim TG,Grigalunas T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Aliaga town, located 50 km north of Izmir, Turkey, is facing serious air, water, and soil pollution problems of industrial origin. The town has had a widespread public reaction against the estimated environmental effects of a 500 MW power plant originally to be built by a private international company during the fir...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Müezzinoglu A

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:The biodiversity of many Brazilian rivers is seriously threatened by industrial and municipal pollution, and Rio Paraiba do Sul, located between two major industrial centers is one example of this situation. A survey of the fish assemblage was conducted from October 1998 to September 1999 and the data were used to dev...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Araujo FG,Fichberg I,Pinto BC,Peixoto MG

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastic debris, specifically microplastic in the aquatic environment, is an escalating environmental crisis. Efforts at national scales to reduce or ban microplastics in personal care products are starting to pay off, but this will not affect those materials already in the environment or those that result from unregul...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Conkle JL,Báez Del Valle CD,Turner JW

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various approaches have been used to classify large geographical areas into smaller regions of similar water quality or extrapolate water-quality data from a few streams to other unmonitored streams. A combination of some of the strengths of existing techniques is used to develop a new approach for these purposes. In ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Robertson DM,Saad DA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ In southern Bahia, Brazil, the traditional cocoa agroecosystem with a dense shade canopy of native trees is now recognized as a secondary conservation route for highly endangered Atlantic Rainforest species. This "chocolate forest" of the densely shaded farms persists despite a massive 20-year Brazilian government m...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： JOHNS ND

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recreational beach use with off-road vehicles is popular, but potentially harmful from an environmental perspective. Beaches are important habitats to invertebrates such as ghost crabs of the genus Ocyopde, which excavate extensive and elaborate burrows. Ghost crabs are sensitive to human pressures and changes in burr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lucrezi S,Schlacher TA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery dynamics in a previously disturbed stream were investigated to determine the influence of a series of remedial actions on stream recovery and to evaluate the potential application of bioindicators as an environmental management tool. A suite of bioindicators, representing five different functional response gr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Adams SM,Ham KD

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:In the last two decades, coral reefs have become popular among recreational divers, especially inside marine protected areas. However, the impact caused by divers on benthic organisms may be contributing to the degradation of coral reefs. We analyzed the behavior of 142 scuba divers in the Abrolhos National Marine Par...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Giglio VJ,Luiz OJ,Schiavetti A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hillsborough County, Florida, is a karst region that is heavily urbanized, yet no study has been undertaken measuring the degree of human disturbance. Van Beynen and Townsend (2005) created a hierarchical and standardized disturbance index specifically designed for karst environments. To address the problem of determi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： van Beynen P,Feliciano N,North L,Townsend K

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Methods for defining and retrieving reference conditions for large rivers were explored with emphasis on hydromorphologic and biologic quality indicators. For a set of four large rivers in the European Western Plains ecoregion, i.e., the rivers Meuse, Loire, Allier, and Dordogne, reference reaches were selected based ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Van Looy K,Meire P,Wasson JG

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：:Implementing effective conservation requires an understanding of factors affecting deforestation and forest degradation. Previous studies have investigated factors affecting deforestation, while few studies have examined the determinants of both of deforestation and forest degradation for more than one period. To addr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Htun NZ,Mizoue N,Yoshida S

更新日期：2013-02-01 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