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Rebecca L. Hale
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Stormwater management has significant consequences for urban hydrology, water quality, and flood risk, and has changed substantially over history, but it is unknown how these paradigm shifts play out at the local scale and whether local changes in stormw...
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Rebecca L. Hale
Stormwater management has significant consequences for urban hydrology, water quality, and flood risk, and has changed substantially over history, but it is unknown how these paradigm shifts play out at the local scale and whether local changes in stormw...
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David W. Kim
Current scientific developments have reached the stage where human aspirations of space exploration are not science fiction but a reality involving travelling to the Earth?s orbit, the Moon and Mars. In the second half of the twentieth century, internati...
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Antonio Carlos Zuffo, Sergio Nascimento Duarte, Marco Antonio Jacomazzi, Maíra Simões Cucio and Marcus Vinícius Galbetti
Located in the southeast region of Brazil, the Cantareira System consists of six interconnected reservoirs and supplies around 14 million people in the state of São Paulo. Built in the 1970s, when extensive fluviometric series were not available in the r...
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Bernardo Carvalhinho, Rodrigo Rocha Silva and Jorge Bernardino
The ability of keeping a record of geospatial information, knowing how it changed over time, is crucial for landscape analysis and territorial government. Land management is still a problem. Many governmental databases are incomplete, and there is a lack...
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Jennifer Edmond
This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in historical research and the manners in which possible negative effects of this omnipresent characteristic might be managed and mitigated. It draws upon both the experienc...
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Seongjun Kim, Guanlin Li and Yowhan Son
This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshu...
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Abdul-Kahar A, Sulaiman ESB
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This paper is based on qualitative analysis of public policies whereby its findings and discussions is derived from the available literatures on government policies and relevant theories surrounding HRM in the public sector of an economy in practice. The...
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Ivo Machar, Jaroslav Simon, Klement Rejsek, Vilem Pechanec, Jan Brus and Helena Kilianova
The remnants of primeval Norway spruce forests in the European temperate zone are crucial for maintaining forest biodiversity in high mountain landscapes. This paper presents results of a multidisciplinary research and evaluation project on the managemen...
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Brian Grinder, Robert Sarikas, Dean Kiefer, Arsen Djatej
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Financial crises have regularly afflicted economies throughout history and the United States has been no exception. This paper examines the Panic of 1907, the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression and the Great Recession of 2007-08 and discusses t...
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Lisa M. Tucker
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The history of the kitchen has received much attention from designers and design historians. Since the writings of Catharine Beecher, designers, household engineers, and others have written about the importance of the kitchen as the center of the home. T...
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Jane Whitney Gibson
This paper builds a case for using the qualitative methodology of critical biography to illuminate the life, times, and contributions of pioneers in the field of management history. First the importance of management history is discussed and the critical...
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Tom Seymour, Sara Hussein
Long before there was an institute for project management, or updated knowledge books and guides on how to manage projects, or even before the existence of Gantt charts, history offers several examples of colossal projects successfully completed. The Pyr...
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Cécilia Clayes-Mekdade,Paul Allard
Este artigo examina a evolução do papel do Estado na gestão do ambiente. A experiência francesa,caracterizada por um Estado altamente centralizado, propõe aos pesquisadores uma situação onde qualquerpermanência, assim como qualquer mudança, tende a ser e...
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Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri, Lydia Papadaki, Tatiana Pliakou and Eleni Toli
The proactive sustainable management of scarce water across vulnerable agricultural areas of South Europe is a timely issue of major importance, especially under the recent challenges affecting complex water systems. The Basin District of Thessaly, Greec...
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Costel Ceocea,Raluca Alexandra Ceocea,Aurora Cosma,Marius Savin
To achieve quality involves the use of standards in all medical and non-medical processes carried out in the medical system. Standards translate quality into operational terms. They set minimum levels of excellence or performance compatibility intervals....
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Maria Isabel Velez, Daniel Conde, Juan Pablo Lozoya, James Anthony Rusak, Felipe García-Rodríguez, Carina Seitz, Thomas Harmon, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo, Jaime Escobar and Sandra Patricia Vilardy
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are increasingly being used in conservation biology, ecosystem management, and evaluations of ecosystem services (ES), but their potential to contribute to the ES risk assessment process has not been explored. We propos...
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Rita S. W. Yam, Yen-Tzu Fan and Tzu-Ting Wang
Pomacea canaliculata (Ampullariidae) has extensively invaded most Asian constructed wetlands and its massive herbivory of macrophytes has become a major cause of ecosystem dysfunctioning of these restored habitats. We conducted non-choice laboratory feed...
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Andreas N. Angelakis and Xiao Yun Zheng
This paper provides an outline of history of hydro-technologies in the west and the east. It is an overview of the special issue on ?the evolution of hydro-technologies globally?, in which the key topics regarding the history of water and sanitation worl...
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Nick Apostolidis, Chris Hertle and Ross Young
Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth and, more importantly, experiences the most variable rainfall of all the continents on our planet. The vast majority of Australians live in large cities on the coast. Because wastewater treatments plan...
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