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    A new look at the Flood Pulse Concept : The (ir)relevance of the moving litto...

    The Flood Pulse Concept links the hydraulic river flood pulse to floodplain nutrient status. The edge of inundation, referred to as the moving littoral, causes wetting and...
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    Planning and establishment principles for constructed wetlands and riparian b...

    In a great number of scientific articles on water quality improvement using constructed wetlands (CW) and riparian buffers zones (RBZ) at catchment scale, contradictory results...
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    Exploring under-utilised low carbon land resources from multiple perspectives...

    Mobilising under-utilised low carbon (ULC) land resources for future agricultural production can help reducing pressure on high carbon stock land from agricultural expansion,...
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    Supporting collaborative policy processes with a multi-criteria discussion of...

    Collaborative policy processes are increasingly advocated to resolve management problems of social-ecological systems. To elucidate which approaches work in diverse situations,...
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    Impact of water drawdown and rewetting on sediment nutrient-dynamics in a con...

    In densely populated delta regions, many freshwater shallow lakes constructed on top of marine deposits and their water tables are maintained at a fixed level. Reintroducing...
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    Floodplain plant productivity is better predicted by particulate nutrients th...

    When rivers flood, nutrients exchange between the river and the floodplain, enhancing floodplain vegetation productivity, as described by the flood pulse concept. However, river...
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    Land use related sources of greenhouse gases. Present emissions and possible ...

    Atmospheric carbon dioxide, which causes 50% of greenhouse warming, is increasing by 0.5% per year. Reducing and reversing deforestation would slow the increase, but plantations...
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    A systematic review of a multifaceted process

    Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are...
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    Commissioning as the cornerstone of self-build. Assessing the constraints and...

    This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and housing regime. Although there is growing policy and academic attention to...
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    Co-creatieve rivierlandschappen

    For centuries the Dutch fluvial landscape has been shaped by shipping, agriculture, clay and sand mining. In the eighties of the previous century nature and environmental issues...
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    Disentangling effects of key coarse woody debris fuel properties on its combu...

    Coarse woody debris is a key terrestrial carbon pool, and its turnover through fire plays a fundamental role in global carbon cycling. Coarse dead wood fuel properties, which...
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    Carbon-diversity hotspots and their owners in Brazilian southeastern Savanna,...

    Tropical vegetation provides a myriad of ecosystem services and at the same time is highly threatened. This creates a demand for more efficient conservation strategies that...
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    A theory of multitier ecolabel competition

    Ecolabels are widely used to inform markets about credence attributes of products. We present the first analysis of ecolabel competition that allows labels to have multiple...
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    Government mitigation activities and public property demand response

    The level of public response to extreme catastrophes is considerably greater than concern over climate change. This research compares the public's responses to extreme disasters...
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    The impact of greening schoolyards on the appreciation, and physical, cogniti...

    Greening schoolyards is an initiative to reconnect children with nature and afford meaningful experiences that foster children's well-being. To strengthen the empirical basis...
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    Ecosystem services assessment tools for African Biosphere Reserves

    While the concept of ecosystem services which links biodiversity to human wellbeing, is by now well-known, its translation into actual management decisions is still uneven....