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  1. Pine Creek Conservation Area: 2013 Mapping and Monitoring Report

    Pine Creek Conservation Area (PCCA), just northeast of the John Day River in Wheeler County, Oregon, was acquired in 1999-2001 by the Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs with support from the Bonneville Power...

  2. Assessing the Homogenization of Urban Land Management With an Application to US Residential Lawn Care

    Changes in land use, land cover, and land management present some of the greatest potential global environmental challenges of the 21st century. Urbanization, one of the principal drivers of these...

  3. Satisfaction, Water and Fertilizer Use in the American Residential Macrosystem

    Residential yards across theUSlook remarkably similar despite marked variation in climate and soil, yet the drivers of this homogenization are unknown. Telephone surveys of fertilizer and irrigation use and...

  4. Reducing the Negative Human-Health Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Emissions through Region-Specific Crop Selection

    An expected global increase in bioenergy-crop cultivation as an alternative to fossil fuels will have consequences on both global climate and local air quality through changes in biogenic emissions of volatile...

  5. The Associations Between Environmental Quality and Preterm Birth in the United States, 2000–2005: A Cross-Sectional...

    Background: Many environmental factors have been independently associated with preterm birth (PTB). However, exposure is not isolated to a single environmental factor, but rather to many positive and negative...

  6. The Associations between Environmental Quality and Mortality in the Contiguous United States, 2000-2005

    Background: Assessing cumulative effects of the multiple environmental factors influencing mortality remains a challenging task.

  7. Investigating the Potential of Land Use Modifications to Mitigate the Respiratory Health Impacts of NO2: A Case Study in the...

    The health impacts of urban air pollution are a growing concern in our rapidly urbanizing world. Urban air pollutants show high intra-urban spatial variability linked to urban land use and land cover (LULC)....

  8. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Contaminants Within Estuarine Sediments and Native Olympia Oysters: A Contrast Between a...

    Chemical contaminants can be introduced into estuarine and marine ecosystems from a variety of sources including wastewater, agriculture and forestry practices, point and non-point discharges, runoff from...

  9. Daytime Variation of Urban Heat Islands: The Case Study of Doha, Qatar

    Recent evidence suggests that urban forms and materials can help to mediate temporal variation of microclimates and that landscape modifications can potentially reduce temperatures and increase accessibility to...

  10. Drivers of Urban Sprawl in Urbanizing China – A Political Ecology Analysis

    Chinese cities have undergone a process of urbanization that has resulted in significant urban sprawl in the past 20 years. This paper uses the 'ecology of actors' framework to analyze the interactions between...

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