| Titre : | AMBIO 41(7) - NOV 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
Dépouillements
Article
Yugal Kishore Joshi, Auteur ;
Cecilia Tortajada, Auteur ;
Asit K. Biswas, Auteur
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Rob Hope, Auteur ;
Tim Foster, Auteur ;
Patrick Thomson, Auteur
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Nancy Golubiewski, Auteur
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Nancy Golubiewski, Auteur
The energy and material flows of a city are often described as urban metabolism (UM), which is put forward as a way to link a city's ecology and economy. UM draws parallels to the biology of individual organisms, yet the analogy is misapplied. I[...]
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Marieve Pouliot, Auteur ;
Thorsten Treue, Auteur ;
Beatrice Darko Obiri, Auteur ;
Boureima Ouedraogo, Auteur
Forest degradation in West Africa is generally thought to have negative consequences on rural livelihoods but there is little overview of its effects in the region because the importance of forests to rural livelihoods has never been adequately [...]
Article
Timo Kuuluvainen, Auteur ;
Olli Tahvonen, Auteur ;
Tuomas Aakala, Auteur
Since WWII, forest management in Fennoscandia has primarily been based on even-aged stand management, clear cut harvesting and thinning from below. As an alternative, uneven-aged management, based on selection cutting of individual trees or smal[...]
Article
Joachim W. Dippner, Auteur ;
Georgs Kornilovs, Auteur ;
Karin Junker, Auteur
Since 2001/2002, the correlation between North Atlantic Oscillation index and biological variables in the North Sea and Baltic Sea fails, which might be addressed to a global climate regime shift. To understand inter-annual and inter-decadal var[...]
Article
Yunzhen Chen, Auteur ;
James P. M. Syvitski, Auteur ;
Shu Gao, Auteur ;
Irina Overeem, Auteur ;
Albert J. Kettner, Auteur
We analyze 4000-year flood history of the lower Yellow River and the history of agricultural development in the middle river by investigating historical writings and quantitative time series data of environmental changes in the river basin. Floo[...]
Article
Michelle E. Portman, Auteur ;
Daniel Nathan, Auteur ;
Noam Levin, Auteur
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are critical to the well-being of threatened ecosystems and thus can be highly beneficial to humans, especially to those residing nearby. We explore the qualities of 117 MPAs in the Mediterranean basin and develop a[...]
Article
Zongming Wang, Auteur ;
Jianguo Wu, Auteur ;
Marguerite Madden, Auteur ;
Dehua Mao, Auteur
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Alejandro Bortolus, Auteur
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Christopher Kennedy, Auteur
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Michael Hughes, Auteur ;
Betty Weiler, Auteur ;
Jim Curtis, Auteur
This paper invokes the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a diagnostic tool to explain an existing public education program's limited success at improving river water quality in the City of Perth, Western Australia. A reflective, client-driven [...]
Article
Alexander N. Glazer, Auteur ;
Gene E. Likens, Auteur
Hyperarid, arid, and semi-arid lands represent over a third of the Earth's land surface, and are home to over 38 % of the increasing world population. Freshwater is a limiting resource on these lands, and withdrawal of groundwater substantially [...]
