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Exurban development is the fastest growing land use across the United States (US). Its prevalence on the East Coast is susceptible to natural disaster events such as hurricanes and nor’easters.
This paper provides an overview of the last 40 years of use, and in many cases abuse, of the natural resources in Catalonia, a country that is representative of European countries in general, and especially those in the Mediterranean region.
A framework was developed to elucidate (1) the drivers of land degradation, (2) pressures, (3) local impacts and vulnerabilities and (4) adaptation strategies.
La valoración ambiental de las riberas es una tarea necesaria para conocer el estado ecológico de los cursos de agua, lo cual permite evaluar los méritos de eventuales experiencias de manejo, impactos antropogénicos o bien detectar problemas ambientales de forma temprana.
En este trabajo se estudiaron los efectos de eventos El Niño y La Niña sobre la distribución espacio-temporal de las precipitaciones y el agua superficial en el sur de la Región Pampeana, Argentina.
This paper analyses the drought risk in argentine Pampean region using statistical results of soil water storage. These are calculated by daily soil water balance whose methodology has been tested using values obtained in situ.
The inability to monitor wetland drag coefficients at a regional scale is rooted in the difficulty to determine vegetation structure from remote sensing data.
RESUMO A subirrigação requer que a definição do manejo hídrico e nutricional seja adequada ao equipamento e à cultura a ser cultivada para obter elevada eficiência de irrigação em comparação a outros sistemas.
The Paraná delta, growing at a rate of c. 2 km2 yr-1 since 6,000 yrs, is one of the most complete record of late Holocene in southern South America.