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Adriana Ortegon-Sanchez, Nick Tyler
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Nearly 54% of the world's population lives in urban areas and this is set to grow over 2.5 billion people by 2050 (United Nations, 2014). In this context, the question is how to make cities contribute positively to the wellbeing of all their inhabitants ...
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Ze Han, Wei Song and Xiangzheng Deng
Qinghai Province has a very fragile ecological environment and is an important component of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. To understand the disturbance caused by human activities to the local ecological system, it is necessary to evaluate the response of ec...
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Vicente de Paulo R. da Silva, Sonaly D. de Oliveira, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, José Dantas Neto, João Hugo B. C. Campos, Célia C. Braga, Lincoln Eloi de Araújo, Danilo de Oliveira Aleixo, José Ivaldo B. de Brito, Márcio Dionísio de Souza, Romildo M. de Holanda
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Freshwater scarcity has increased at an alarming rate worldwide; improved water management plays a vital role in increasing food production and security. This study aims to determine the water footprint of Brazil?s national food consumption, the virtual ...
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Catherine DeLong, Richard Cruse and John Wiener
Soil degradation can take many forms, from erosion to salinization to the overall depletion of organic matter. The expression of soil degradation is broad, and so too are the causes. As the world population nears eight billion, and the environmental unce...
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Matt Aitkenhead,David Donnelly,Malcolm Coull,Emily Hastings
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In recent years, the use of mobile phones and tablets for personal communication has increased dramatically, with over 1 billion smartphones out of a total of 5 billion mobile phones worldwide. The infrastructure and technology underlying these devices ...
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