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0000-0002-2858-8622
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University of California, San Diego
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Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 05-02-2018
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 10-08-2012
Abstract: Humans create vast quantities of wastewater through inefficiencies and poor management of water systems. The wasting of water poses sustainability challenges, depletes energy reserves, and undermines human water security and ecosystem health. Here we review emerging approaches for reusing wastewater and minimizing its generation. These complementary options make the most of scarce freshwater resources, serve the varying water needs of both developed and developing countries, and confer a variety of environmental benefits. Their widespread adoption will require changing how freshwater is sourced, used, managed, and priced.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-06-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2983
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-07-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.15223
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-07-2017
DOI: 10.1002/EAP.1572
Abstract: One of the goals of urban ecology is to link community structure to ecosystem function in urban habitats. Pollution-tolerant wetland invertebrates have been shown to enhance greenhouse gas (GHG) flux in controlled laboratory experiments, suggesting that they may influence urban wetland roles as sources or sinks of GHG. However, it is unclear if their effects can be detected in highly variable conditions in a field setting. Here we use an extensive data set on carbon dioxide (CO
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-11-2021
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 06-07-2018
Abstract: An international initiative takes conservation planning into the deep ocean to inform environmental management of deep-sea mining.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.14996
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-02-2022
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.16109
Abstract: The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate change and bio ersity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international bio ersity and climate change agendas with the sharpening of ambitious strategies and targets by the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Within their respective Conventions, the bio ersity and climate interlinked challenges have largely been addressed separately. There is evidence that conservation actions that halt, slow or reverse bio ersity loss can simultaneously slow anthropogenic mediated climate change significantly. This review highlights conservation actions which have the largest potential for mitigation of climate change. We note that conservation actions have mainly synergistic benefits and few antagonistic trade‐offs with climate change mitigation. Specifically, we identify direct co‐benefits in 14 out of the 21 action targets of the draft post‐2020 global bio ersity framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, notwithstanding the many indirect links that can also support both bio ersity conservation and climate change mitigation. These relationships are context and scale‐dependent therefore, we showcase ex les of local bio ersity conservation actions that can be incentivized, guided and prioritized by global objectives and targets. The close interlinkages between bio ersity, climate change mitigation, other nature's contributions to people and good quality of life are seldom as integrated as they should be in management and policy. This review aims to re‐emphasize the vital relationships between bio ersity conservation actions and climate change mitigation in a timely manner, in support to major Conferences of Parties that are about to negotiate strategic frameworks and international goals for the decades to come.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 10-09-2015
Abstract: Catchment urbanization perturbs the water and sediment budgets of streams, degrades stream health and function, and causes a constellation of flow, water quality, and ecological symptoms collectively known as the urban stream syndrome. Low-impact development (LID) technologies address the hydrologic symptoms of the urban stream syndrome by mimicking natural flow paths and restoring a natural water balance. Over annual time scales, the volumes of stormwater that should be infiltrated and harvested can be estimated from a catchment-scale water-balance given local climate conditions and preurban land cover. For all but the wettest regions of the world, a much larger volume of stormwater runoff should be harvested than infiltrated to maintain stream hydrology in a preurban state. Efforts to prevent or reverse hydrologic symptoms associated with the urban stream syndrome will therefore require: (1) selecting the right mix of LID technologies that provide regionally tailored ratios of stormwater harvesting and infiltration (2) integrating these LID technologies into next-generation drainage systems (3) maximizing potential cobenefits including water supply augmentation, flood protection, improved water quality, and urban amenities and (4) long-term hydrologic monitoring to evaluate the efficacy of LID interventions.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 16-05-2014
Abstract: The precautionary approach and collaborative governance must balance deep-ocean use and protection.
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 08-05-2017
Abstract: Green infrastructure (also referred to as low impact development, or LID) has the potential to transform urban stormwater runoff from an environmental threat to a valuable water resource. In this paper we focus on the removal of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB, a pollutant responsible for runoff-associated inland and coastal beach closures) in stormwater biofilters (a common type of green infrastructure). Drawing on a combination of previously published and new laboratory studies of FIB removal in biofilters, we find that 66% of the variance in FIB removal rates can be explained by clean bed filtration theory (CBFT, 31%), antecedent dry period (14%), study effect (8%), biofilter age (7%), and the presence or absence of shrubs (6%). Our analysis suggests that, with the exception of shrubs, plants affect FIB removal indirectly by changing the infiltration rate, not directly by changing the FIB removal mechanisms or altering filtration rates in ways not already accounted for by CBFT. The analysis presented here represents a significant step forward in our understanding of how physicochemical theories (such as CBFT) can be melded with hydrology, engineering design, and ecology to improve the water quality benefits of green infrastructure.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-01-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-020-01370-3
Abstract: Over the past decades, three major challenges to marine life have emerged as a consequence of anthropogenic emissions: ocean warming, acidification and oxygen loss. While most experimental research has targeted the first two stressors, the last remains comparatively neglected. Here, we implemented sequential hierarchical mixed-model meta-analyses (721 control-treatment comparisons) to compare the impacts of oxygen conditions associated with the current and continuously intensifying hypoxic events (1-3.5 O
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-02-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2009
Location: United States of America
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