The Dynamics of Multiscale Institutional Complexes: the Case of the São Paulo Macrometropolitan Region.

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 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：:The last 30 years has seen an increase in environmental, socio-economic, and recreational objectives being considered throughout the forest planning process. In the Finnish context these are considered mainly at the regional level potentially missing out on more local issues and problems. Such local information would ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kangas A,Rasinmäki J,Eyvindson K,Chambers P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transportation infrastructure in national parks has historically been designed for the automobile. With more vehicles in the parks, visitors found themselves in circumstances more reminiscent of a city than a park. Traffic jams, overcrowding, illegal parking, horn honking, and idling vehicles became common, creating s...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mace BL,Marquit JD,Bates SC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technology alone cannot address the challenges of how societies, communities, and individuals understand water accessibility, water management, and water consumption, particularly under extreme conditions like floods and droughts. At the community level, people are increasingly aware challenges related to responses to...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： McMartin DW,Sammel AJ,Arbuthnott K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate and deliberation surrounding climate change has shifted from mitigation toward adaptation, with much of the adaptation focus centered on adaptive practices, and infrastructure development. However, there is little research assessing expected impacts, potential benefits, and design challenges that exist for redu...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： McMartin DW,Hernani Merino BH,Bonsal B,Hurlbert M,Villalba R,Ocampo OL,Upegui JJV,Poveda G,Sauchyn DJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Biodiversity policies in the European Union (EU) are mainly implemented through the Birds and Habitats Directives as well as the establishment of Natura 2000, a network of protected areas throughout the EU. Considerable resources must be allocated for fulfilling the Directives and the question of optimal allocation is...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Strange N,Jacobsen JB,Thorsen BJ,Tarp P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive capacity (AC) of social systems to degradation of ecosystem services is defined as the response capacity of the system to a threat, such as changes in supply and delivery of ecosystem services (ES). In this paper, we propose an adaptive capacity composite indicator vis-a-vis the loss or degradation of eco...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Villegas-Palacio C,Berrouet L,Marsiglia S

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:In the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin (GLB), corn acreage has been expanding since 2005 in response to high demand for corn as an ethanol feedstock. This study integrated remote sensing-derived products and the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) within a geographic information system (GIS) modeling environment to ass...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Shao Y,Lunetta RS,Macpherson AJ,Luo J,Chen G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The risk tropospheric ozone poses to forests in the United States is dependent on the variation in ozone exposure across the distribution of the forests in question and the various environmental and climate factors predominant in the region. All these factors have a spatial nature, and consequently an approach to ch...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： HOGSETT WE,WEBER JE,TINGEY D,HERSTROM A,LEE EH,LAURENCE JA

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：:National Pollution Discharge Elimination Permit (NPDES)-driven effluent toxicity tests using Ceriodaphnia dubia and fathead minnows were conducted for more than 20 years to assess and monitor the effects of wastewaters at the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12 Complex) in Oa...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Greeley MS Jr,Kszos LA,Morris GW,Smith JG,Stewart AJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：:Having volunteers collect data can be a cost-effective strategy to complement or replace those collected by scientists. The quality of these data is essential where field-collected data are used to monitor progress against predetermined standards because they provide decision makers with confidence that choices they m...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gollan J,de Bruyn LL,Reid N,Wilkie L

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Water is an abundant resource worldwide, but fresh and clean water is scarce in many areas of the world. Increases in water consumption and climate change will affect global water security even further in the near future. With increasing numbers of people living in metropolitan areas, water, energy, and materials need...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： van Leeuwen K,de Vries E,Koop S,Roest K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of aquatic invasive species (AIS) by boats traveling up rivers and streams is an important mechanism of secondary spread of AIS into watersheds. Because physical barriers to AIS movement also prevent navigation, alternate methods for preventing spread are necessary while allowing upstream navigation. One pro...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Beyer J,Moy P,De Stasio B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fee-fishing involves paying a fee for the privilege of fishing a body of water where fish populations are enhanced by stocking fish. Past literature on this activity has focused more on the operation of the enterprise and management of the fish than the people and site characteristics. The objectives of the study were...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Schuett MA,Pierskalla CD

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Here we report N(2)O emission results for freshwater marshes isolated from human activities at the Sanjiang Experimental Station of Marsh Wetland Ecology in northeastern China. These results are important for us to understand N(2)O emission in natural processes in undisturbed freshwater marsh. Two adjacent plots of De...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Yu J,Liu J,Wang J,Sun W,Patrick WH Jr,Meixner FX

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Non-point-source pollution of surface and groundwater is a prominent environmental issue in rural catchments, with major consequences on water supply and aquatic ecosystem quality. Among surface-water protection measures, environmental or landscape management policies support the implementation and the management of b...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Viaud V,Merot P,Baudry J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional bacterial indicators used in public health to assess water quality and the Biolog system were evaluated to compare their response to biological, chemical, and physical habitat indicators of stream condition both within the state of Oregon and among ecoregion aggregates (Coast Range, Willamette Valley, Casc...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Pennington AT,Harding AK,Hendricks CW,Campbell HM

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores the expression of three forest value orientations that emerged from an analysis of Australian news media discourse about the management of Australian native forests from August 1, 1997 through December 31, 2004. Computer-coded content analysis was used to measure and track the relative importance...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Webb TJ,Bengston DN,Fan DP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A river system is a network of intertwining channels and tributaries, where interacting flow and sediment transport processes are complex and floods may frequently occur. In water resources management of a complex system of rivers, it is important that instream discharges and sediments being carried by streamflow are ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Yitian L,Gu RR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A numerical water quality criterion in the U.S. consists of three components representing magnitude, duration, and frequency. While magnitude and duration are well defined and conceptually unambiguous, the meaning of the frequency component is often debatable. We interpret the frequency component as a tool for account...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Qian SS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00