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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Road Impacts"”.
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Modeling Liquefaction-Induced Road Disruptions in Cascadia Megathrust Earthquakes: Implications for Emergency Response and Access in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
… framework for estimating liquefaction-induced road closures and service reductions following a magnitude-9 CSZ earthquake. Liquefaction hazard is mapped using a geospatial liquefaction model trained on more than 37,000 cone penetration tests and conditioned on regional datasets describing …
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Geospatial Modeling of Forest Road Networks and Their Effect on Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities
Road construction and maintenance throughout the country continues to be one of the largest contributors of sediment pollution to aquatic systems. Though impacts of road networks on aquatic systems can be potentially severe, little work has been performed to evaluate the effect that road spatial …
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Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
… In the first chapter, I ask whether rural roads can contribute to a reversal of tree cover loss. Prior literature shows roads to be strong drivers of deforestation; however, I hypothesize that in some settings the opposite relationship may hold. Roads may (1) increase the relative …
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Assessing the potential contribution of roads to variation in British bird populations
Roads and their traffic are known to affect bird species at both individual and population levels. Collisions with vehicles can cause direct mortality, and noise, light and chemical pollution can have sub-lethal impacts. Additionally, roads can cause habitat degradation, fragmentation and edge …