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Evangelos Machairas and Emmanouil A. Varouchakis
Mining activities are prolific worldwide in light of the perpetual production of metal. The high need for metal materials in human life necessitates the development of mining operations, especially in places characterized as being highly enriched in meta...
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Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz and Luis Rubio Andrada
An important and challenging question for airport operators is the management of airport capacity and demand. Airport capacity depends on the available infrastructure, external factors, and operating procedures. Investments in Air Traffic Management (ATM...
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Johanna Merisalu, Jonas Sundell and Lars Rosén
Construction below the ground surface and underneath the groundwater table is often associated with groundwater leakage and drawdowns in the surroundings which subsequently can result in a wide variety of risks. To avoid groundwater drawdown-associated d...
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Rongbo Hu, Kepa Iturralde, Thomas Linner, Charlie Zhao, Wen Pan, Alessandro Pracucci and Thomas Bock
Single-task construction robots (STCRs) have become a popular research topic for decades. However, there is still a gap in the ubiquitous application of STCRs for onsite construction due to various reasons, such as cost concerns. Therefore, cost?benefit ...
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Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer
One way for jurisdictions with limited analytic resources to increase their capability for doing cost?benefit analysis (CBA) is to use existing shadow prices, or ?plug-ins?, for important social impacts. This article contributes to the further developmen...
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Binbin Peng and Jie Song
Sea-level rise (SLR) will magnify the impacts of storm surge; the resulting severe flooding and inundation can cause huge damage to coastal communities. Community leaders are considering implementing adaptation strategies, typically hard engineering proj...
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Marcos Paulo Schlickmann, Luis Miguel Martínez, Jorge Pinho de Sousa
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When public authorities face the need to improve a transportation system, they normally have to make a difficult choice among a set of technological and operational alternatives. To help the correct evaluation of each alternative and its impacts, costs a...
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Carmen Rupérez-Moreno, Julio Pérez-Sánchez, Javier Senent-Aparicio, Pilar Flores-Asenjo, Carmen Paz-Aparicio
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Droughts and climate change in regions with profitable irrigated agriculture will impact groundwater resources with associated direct and indirect impacts. In the integrated water resource management (IWRM), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) offers efficien...
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Stefano Manzo, Kim Bang Salling
Pág. 273 - 282
Traditional transport Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) commonly ignores the indirect environmental impacts of an infrastructure project deriving from the overall life-cycle of the different project components. Such indirect impacts are instead of key importan...
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Carlo Vaghi, Luca Lucietti
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The MEDNET project ?Mediterranean Network for Custom Procedures and Simplification of Clearance in Ports? funded by the MED programme (2007?2013), was aimed to establish and operate anetwork of port authorities and experts focusing on the exchange of exp...
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