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This chapter is an inquiry about the intertwined relationship between the biophysical landscape and infrastructure. It examines dam reservoirs as infrastructures embedded in a landscape in constant flux. More specifically, I trace the... more
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      Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Nation-State, Nature Conservation
... ALDO SOTO AND HERNÁN FLORES WWF-Peru Programme Office Trinidad Morán 853, Lima 14 – Perú, Apartado Postal: 11-0205 MICHAEL MCCLAIN Global Water for Sustainability Program, Department of Environmental Studies Florida International... more
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      Fishery Management, Sustainable Livelihood, Freshwater Fish, River Basin
Geographical information system (GIS) has emerged as an efficient tool in delineation of drainage pattern and ground water potential and its planning. GIS and image processing techniques can be employed for the identification of... more
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      Rs, Morphometric Analysis, River Basin, GIS
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      Water resources, Vietnam, Water Resources Management, Multidisciplinary
Agriculture in Uzbekistan is fully based on irrigat ion, and water, as the factor of output production, is used conjointly by the farmers. Over the last four years water sector reforming is taking place in the country. Since 2003, in... more
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      System Management, Water Management, Water Supply, Water resource management
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      Cultural Heritage, Land Use, Drinking Water, River Basin
Most of the permafrost observatories in Northern Hemisphere show substantial warming of permafrost during the last 20 to 30 years. The magnitude of warming has varied with location, but was typically from 0.5 to 2°C at the depth of zero... more
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      Oil and gas, Coastal Erosion, Communication System, Global change
A large number of borehole temperature measurements at different depths were obtained for the European Russian North permafrost regions starting in the 1960s. This data set is serving as a baseline against which to measure changes in... more
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      Temperature measurement, Climate Model, River Basin, High Resolution
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      Earth Sciences, Modeling, Spatial Distribution, River Basin
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      Political Economy, Decision Making, River Basin Management, Public Participation
Melet Çayı, Orta ve Doğu Karadeniz bölümleri arasındaki sınırı oluşturmaktadır. Karadeniz Bölgesi’nin hem debi, hem de uzunluk açısından önemli akarsularından birisidir. Akarsu, taşıdığı alüvyonları ağız kısmında biriktirerek Ordu... more
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      Geography, Human Geography, Urban Geography, Flood Risk Management
For the purpose of meeting the demand for energy and food, the construction of irrigation and dam system is undertaken. However, creation of water resources can have negative impacts on human health especially through the transmission of... more
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      Irrigation, Agriculture, Big Dams, River Basin
Rural areas are exposed to forest fragmentation processes due to the development of environmentally unsustainable agricultural activities. This article studies the forest fragmentation and connectivity in an agricultural sub-basin to the... more
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      Water resources, Connectivity, River Basin, fragmentation of forests
As was the case for several other nation-states emerging from colonialism, Ghana's 'auspicious start'as an independent country relied on growth prospects resulting from large-scale infrastructure projects. Dams... more
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      Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Agricultural Policy, Human Factors
The "presence" of gaps in environmental data time series represents a very common, but extremely critical problem, since it can produce biased results (Rubin, 1976). Missing data plagues almost all surveys. The problem is how to... more
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      Time Series, Survey Research, Missing Data, Time Series Data
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      Game Theory, Knowledge Management, Decision Making, Operations Research
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      Climate Change, Hydrology, Irrigation, Meteorology
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      Water resources, Integrated Water Resources Management, Water Demand, River Basin
Il bacino del fiume Adige (Etsch in tedesco, Adiç in ladino, Ades in trentino e Adexe in Veneto) si estende per ben 12178 km 2 collo-candosi al terzo posto per ampiezza dopo i bacini del Po e del Tevere e, per competen-za, interessa le... more
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      River Basin Management, River Restoration, River Hydraulics, River Morphology
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      International Relations, Border Studies, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Governance