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Environmental regulation, hog scale production and the synergy of pollution control and carbon reduction

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Shiyan Qiao et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

The synergy of pollution control and carbon reduction is conducive to promoting the green transformation of the economy. Based on China’s 30 provincial administrative panel data from 2002 to 2020, using the elastic concept to measure the synergy index and the panel fixed effect model to carry out...

environmental regulation carbon emission +3 more
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SARS-CoV-2 vaccines from A to Z: A Review of the current challenges

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Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud et al. View all

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General

COVID-19 pandemic is a major worldwide health disaster firstly reported in December 2019. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has offered the public hope of halting it, authorizing vaccinations for emergency use with more than 85% efficacy against serious acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2)...

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Evaluation of heavy metal contamination in indigenous fruits and associated human health risk: evidence from Fuzzy-TOPSIS approach

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Shaukat Ali et al. View all

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Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis

In Gilgit-Baltistan, urbanization, transportation, unplanned small-scale industry, kitchen waste, inorganic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, and weedicides contribute to agricultural field contamination, creating severe health risks. This study aims to determine the health risks caused by...

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Design and use of crowdsourcing geographic data collection system during the monitoring phase of Environmental Impact Assessment reports

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Erdem Emin Maraş et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

When the whole earth is considered as a geographic place, it is clearly seen that the physical and social processes in the Earth’s crust have a direct or indirect connection with geography. In this century named information era, it is vital to find new solutions to people’s problems by getting...

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Air quality in the main cities of the Pearl River Delta Region

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Lopes D. et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

In this study current status of the ambient air quality in the main cities of the Pearl River Delta region was investigated. Two special administrative regions (Macau and Hong Kong) and three major cities of Guangdong (Guangzhou, Dongguan and Foshan) were selected for analysis according to their...

air quality status backward trajectories +2 more
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Evaluating Environmental Efficiency of Turkish Cities by Data Envelopment Analysis

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Abdullah Korkut Üstün et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

Turkey is a developing country and has achieved impressive economic development in recent years. But this rapid growth has brought in many environmental problems in Turkish cities, such as air pollution, water pollution etc. In order to eliminate these problems, environmental performances of the...

Data Envelopment Analysis mathematical modelling +5 more
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Climate Change Adaptation in Urban India An Approach for Inclusive Formulation of Local Adaptation Strategies

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Anna C. Jonsson et al. View all

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Climate change

In Kota, the third largest city of Rajasthan, poverty levels are high in many areas and there is a great need to assess the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of different societal groups and sectors to the impacts of climatic variability and change, and to formulate sustainable planning strategies...

climate change adaptation water management +8 more
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Using a market-type allocation system to confront water scarcity: an inter-district approach in Greece

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Dionysis Latinopoulos et al. View all

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Hydrology and Water Resources Management

This study examines the implication of a market-based system to allocate water regionally in one of the most intensively irrigated areas of Greece. The proposed approach combines elements from administrative allocation and tradable water rights in order to assess several water supply scenarios under...

regional water allocation collective decision making +3 more
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Integrated Wastewater Management on a County Basis

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Tzimas A., Gavalaki E. and Andreadakis A.

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General

The paper discusses a methodology for integrated municipal wastewater management. In compliance to the EU Directive 91/271, there is a legal binding to ensure that all agglomerations with populations over 2000 are provided with wastewater collecting system and adequate treatment. The conditions for...

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Methodologies for compiling national inventories of contaminated sites and conducting preliminary site screening

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Pantazidou Marina et al. View all

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Procedures for compiling a national inventory of contaminated sites must take into account the technical state-of-the-art in the area of subsurface contamination and restoration, the national and supranational regulatory environment, as well as the national administrative infrastructure. Within this...

Contaminated land Subsurface polluting activities +2 more
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Environmental sensitivity index mapping of Lagos shorelines

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Oyedepo J.A. and Adeofun C.O.

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General

Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping of Atlas Cove, Lagos, Nigeria was carried out with the objective of producing an Environmental Analysis Index map of the shorelines. The study integrated methodologies developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Nigerian Oil...

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Environmental Impact Assessment and Integrated Water Resources Management

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Manouris G. and Gioutsou A.

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General

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) plays an important role in the framework of the efforts aiming at the formulation of a complete water resources management. In our paper this issue is examined in an integrated way. The following issues are particularly examined : the notion of the EIA in...

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Water resources management in the watershed of Volvi Lake

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Tzimopoulos C., Zeibeki A., Ginidi P. and Evangelides C.

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General

The decrease of available water resources, the water quality degradation as well as the rapid increase of population combined with the growth of human activities, impose today the development of a science that concerns the Management of Water Resources. Lake Volvi faces a lot of problems, the most...

water mass balance geostatistic analysis +2 more
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