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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Human Impact"”.
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Human impact on the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve
… space in Cape Town and the Western Cape is a human ecological problem and that a business management policy which reinforces human behavioural links with the environment would be both an economic solution and an eco- logical solution to the current controversy surrounding matters related to …
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Changing Human Impact On The Montane Forests Of The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
… especially vulnerable to climate change and human disturbance. Today much of this landscape has been transformed into a mosaic of secondary forest and agricultural fields. This thesis uses palaeoecological proxies (pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal, organic content) to interpret …
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Human impact on the biodiversity of macroinvertebrates in intertidal rocky shores along the Namibian coast
… such as harvesting and trampling due to human visitors may reduce biodiversity, modifying species genetic variability and overall ecosystem functioning. This research compares macroinvertebrate assemblage structures, size and diversity between disturbed and less disturbed sites. The study …
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Remote Sensing Methods for Environmental Monitoring of Human Impact on sub-Arctic Ecosystems in Europe
The role and scale of human impact on the global environment is a question of special importance to the scientific community and the world as a whole. This impact has dramatically increased since the beginning of industrialisation, yet its understanding remains patchy. The sub-Arctic plays a …
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Human impact on the McMurdo Dry Valley soils of Antarctica: Extending the limits of DNA detection
… and sets out environmental principles regulating human activities. The obligations under the ATS include providing environmental impact assessments and leaving the environment minimally impacted after all operations. The associated human footprint inevitably increases as human activity increases …
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
The period following the Roman withdrawal from England in AD 410 has long been considered a time of ‘cultural decline’, owing to the relative paucity of archaeological evidence relating to this time and the dismal state of affairs described by the Dark Age historians Gildas (c AD 540) and Bede (AD …
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The Threat and Cascade Method of estuarine health assessment: a logical sequence from human impact to biological degradation via system physics and chemistry
… It is based on the assumption that anthropogenic impact is the causative variable when considering negative impacts on estuarine health. The methodology follows a logical cascade of estuarine health assessment protocols. The first step in the Threat and Cascade Method (TaCM) incorporates …
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The Human Factor in Supply Chain Risk Management
In a three paper essay series we address the human impact in SCRM from the microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. First, using a positivist theory building approach, we synthesize behavioral risk management and supply chain risk management theory to propose behavioral supply chain risk …
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Understanding good ecological status: a palaeolimnological approach
… to which limnological change was driven by human impact to be examined. Reconstruction of long-term ecosystem status shows that despite the similarity of environmental parameters, Upper Talley and Llyn Pencarreg are very different lakes. Upper Talley (max. depth; 4m) demonstrates constant …
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Preparing California Public Middle School Students For Scientific Inquiry into Environmental Issues
… resolving ecological problems resulting from human impact. Time is an essential element in creating a proper conceptual foundation and training should begin early in a student’s education. As of 2010, the California State Standards for Science for grades six through eight do not sufficiently …
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Web-mediated communication at workplace : a case study at US WEST Communications
… communication more effective. Whereas the impact of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies has been studied extensively (Hiltz & Turoff 1978, Sproull & Kiesler 1991, December 1996), the impact of Web-mediated communication technologies on the workplace is relatively a new …
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Monitoring Regional Vegetation Changes in Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Using Remote Sensing Technique
… contributors to these changes include direct human impact and natural changes in the earth’s climate system. The commonest causes of the vegetation change over a large arctic area are climatic. The Seward Peninsula in Alaska was reported diverse vegetation variations induced by possible …
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“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
… individual cosmologies because of the nature of human impact on the surrounding world. This is not just due to the intergenerational mixing of cultures brought on by globalism and a socially conscious attempt to avoid poaching someone else’s belief system while celebrating and discovering one’s …
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Environmental factors and the water regime of De Hoop Vlei
… to De Hoop has changed significantly due to human impact. Nevertheless, some important environmental changes affecting basin capacity and biological factors at De Hoop have been elucidated by this study.
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Relations among biochemical, individual, and community indicators of stress in fish: stream degradation in the Clinch River drainage
… obtained from fish sampled at sites suspected of human impact (low IBI). Results demonstrated variable bioindicator response to degraded sites. While bioindicators were elevated at certain sites, others were not significantly different from corresponding reference values. Furthermore, results …
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Cultivating Earthworks of the Anthropocene: A Laboratory for Land and Environmental Art in Lime, Oregon
… occurring worldwide resulting from the human impact of resource mining. This perspective is often concealed and upon the depletion of the mined resource these landscapes are regarded as waste, rather than the necessary product and engineered geology of modern society. These earthworks …
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A Comparison of Water Quality Analyses and the Index of Biotic Integrity in Bull Creek, Southwest Missouri
… of the relationship between environmental and human health. With this awareness comes the understanding that steps must be taken to balance the needs of humans with the overall health of the environment. Although water chemistry has played a major role in assessing aquatic systems in the past, …
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The effect of reinforcement on loadbearing capacity of structural glass
… glass is typically used for buildings in which human impact is vulnerable, such as hurricane prone areas or important government buildings. However, laminated glass still lacks the residual loadbearing capacity that one would find in reinforced steel, for instance. Residual loadbearing capacity …
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