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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Ruohan Zhang, Jialan Zhang, Kuan Zhang, Dingde Xu, Yanbin Qi and Xin Deng
The mental health crisis poses a major challenge to global sustainable development. In response, the United Nations has launched an ambitious plan to ?reshape the environment that affects mental health?. Clean toilets are an important measure of civiliza...
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Davinder Malhotra and Srinivas Nippani
This study investigates the risk-adjusted performance of energy equity mutual funds across a 23-year period, employing the Cumulative Wealth Index (CWI) to gauge their long-term performance relative to benchmark indices. Despite inherent volatility due t...
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Stefan Krajewski, Jan ?ukovskis, Dariusz Gozdowski, Marek Cieslinski and Elzbieta Wójcik-Gront
This study comprehensively analyzed the dynamic landscape of organic farming in the European Union (EU) from 2004 to 2021, investigating the shifts in dedicated agricultural areas influenced by evolving preferences and the priorities of farmers and consu...
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Zhihui Tian, Ruoyi Zhang, Lili Wu, Yongji Wang, Jinjin Yang and Di Cao
Climate change, population growth, and socio-economic transformations present multifaceted challenges to the water resource systems in the four major river basins of Henan Province. Consequently, to gain a comprehensive understanding of water security wi...
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Beibei Zhang, Yizhi Liu, Yan Liu and Sainan Lyu
In the current era, as modern cities increasingly face environmental disasters and inherent challenges, the creation and enhancement of resilient cities have become critical. China?s urban resilience exhibits significant imbalances and inadequacies at th...
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Zaid Hazim Al-Saffar, Heja Ghazi Mohamed Hasan and Salam Ridha Oleiwi Aletba
This research addresses the significant challenge posed by early water damage in highway asphalt pavement, a critical concern affecting pavement service performance. To counteract this issue, the utilization of anti-stripping agents in asphalt is explore...
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Azadeh Jamali, Maryam Robati, Hanieh Nikoomaram, Forough Farsad and Hossein Aghamohammadi
Urban resilience studies have increased during recent years due to the significance of climate change as an alarming issue in centralized and highly populated cities where urban functionalities are disintegrated. Towards this aim, an Exploratory Factor A...
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Jiada Li, Courtenay Strong, Jun Wang and Steven Burian
Assessing the resilience of urban drainage systems requires the consideration of future disturbances that will disrupt the system?s performance and trigger urban flooding failures. However, most existing resilience assessments of urban drainage systems r...
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Mina Zakipour, Farhad Yazdandoost, Karim Alizad, Ardalan Izadi and Aref Farhangmehr
Estuaries around the world are facing numerous threats, including urbanization, industrialization, resource scarcity, and the impacts of climate change. To increase estuarine resilience, it is crucial to manage these ecosystems to maintain their function...
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