Specific Contributions of Politics, Economics, and Toxicology in Setting Socially Consensual Limit Values

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to help to inform policy development for the Australian rangelands, and provide a proof of concept for application of a multi-criteria analysis approach to assessment of competing resource use at continental scale. The study aimed to identify and locate key natural resource and agricultur...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hill MJ,Lesslie R,Donohue R,Houlder P,Holloway J,Smith J,Ritman K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding climate variability in a winegrowing region is fundamental to understanding how its vineyards can adapt to climate change. For Uruguay, studying the vulnerability and adaptive responses of vineyards to climate change and climate variability is relevant due to its winegrowing region's economic importance ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fourment M,Ferrer M,Barbeau G,Quénol H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water management has been significantly reshaped throughout recent decades in Europe and worldwide. Vivid examples of this restructuring include Southern European coastal zones which have been transformed into the European "pleasure periphery" over the last 40 years, requiring significant changes in water service prov...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Thiel A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

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：:/ Residential development of farmland is one of the primary driving forces of land degradation in both rural and urban fringe areas throughout the world. The loss of prime agricultural land is of great concern to planning offices and organizations seeking to preserve open space. The objective of this study is to demon...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Levia DF Jr,Page DR

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Biological elements, such as benthic macroinvertebrates and fish, have been used in assessing the ecological quality of rivers according to the requirements of the Water Framework Directive. However, the concurrent use of multiple organism groups provides a broader perspective for such evaluations, since each biologic...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Cheimonopoulou MT,Bobori DC,Theocharopoulos I,Lazaridou M

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Humans can dive with critically endangered grey nurse sharks (Carcharias taurus) along the east coast of Australia. This study investigated both compliance of tourist divers to a code of conduct and legislation and the behaviour of grey nurse sharks in the presence of divers. A total of 25 data collection dives were c...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Smith K,Scarr M,Scarpaci C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees are a major threat to power line security across forested regions of the world. We developed a decision support system for identifying locations in Connecticut, USA where trees have grown tall enough to make contact with transmission lines during storms. We used the Random Forest algorithm, danger tree presence/...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Poulos HM,Camp AE

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:We developed a mechanistic life-cycle model derived from the elicitation of multiple factors influencing the success of individual life-stages of the imperiled delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus). We discuss the relevance of limiting factors in population ecology and problems with additive models in detecting them....

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hamilton SA,Murphy DD

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：:The Internet-led digital economy is changing both the production and consumption patterns at the global scale. Although great potential exists to harness information technology in general and the Internet in particular and improve the environment, possible negative impacts of e-commerce on the environment should also ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sui DZ,Rejeski DW

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of collaborative watershed groups show that effective leadership is an important factor for success. This research uses data from in-depth interviews and meeting observation to qualitatively examine leadership in a Midwestern collaborative watershed group operating with government funding. One major finding wa...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Floress K,Prokopy LS,Ayres J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing concern for the capacity of urban and rural communities to manage current water shortages and to prepare for shortages that may accompany predicted changes in climate. In this paper, concepts relating to the notion of climate adaptation and particularly "capacity building" are used to elucidate severa...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ivey JL,Smithers J,de Loë RC,Kreutzwiser RD

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:Large-scale bioenergy production will affect the hydrologic cycle in multiple ways, including changes in canopy interception, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and the quantity and quality of surface runoff and groundwater recharge. As such, the water footprints of bioenergy sources vary significantly by type of feeds...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Watkins DW Jr,de Moraes MM,Asbjornsen H,Mayer AS,Licata J,Lopez JG,Pypker TG,Molina VG,Marques GF,Carneiro AC,Nuñez HM,Önal H,da Nobrega Germano B

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The Morphological Quality Index (MQI) and the Morphological Quality Index for monitoring (MQIm) have been applied to eight case studies across Europe with the objective of analyzing the hydromorphological response to various restoration measures and of comparing the results of the MQI and MQIm as a morphological asses...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Belletti B,Nardi L,Rinaldi M,Poppe M,Brabec K,Bussettini M,Comiti F,Gielczewski M,Golfieri B,Hellsten S,Kail J,Marchese E,Marcinkowski P,Okruszko T,Paillex A,Schirmer M,Stelmaszczyk M,Surian N

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:The paper gives an account of the development and implementation of a stakeholder management framework at Ream National Park, Cambodia. Firstly, the concept of stakeholder is reviewed in management and in conservation literatures. Secondly, the context in which the stakeholder framework was implemented is described. T...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： De Lopez TT

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific research literature is reviewed (i) for evidence of how much reduction in nonpoint source pollution can be achieved by installing buffers on crop land, (ii) to summarize important factors that can affect this response, and (iii) to identify remaining major information gaps that limit our ability to make...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dosskey MG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00