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Agriculture and the threat to biodiversity in sub-saharan Africa
(2015)The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment identified habitat loss due to the extensive growth of agriculture as the primary driver of biodiversity loss. One implication of this is that agricultural intensification has the potential ... -
Environmental vibration monitoring & assessment at sencitive receptors during metro construction in urban centre of Thessaloniki, Greece
(2011)The construction of the Thessaloniki Metro integrates state-of-the-art technology and the most demanding standards concerning both quality and operation, rendering it, thus, the most modern Metro System in the whole of ... -
Forecasting urban sprawl in Dhaka city of Bangladesh
(2016)Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is expected to be one of the five largest cities of the world by 2025 in terms of population. The rapid urban growth experienced by the city in the recent decades is one of the highest in ... -
Informal housing in Greece: Amultinomial logistic regression analysis at the regional level
(2013)This paper deals with the primary causes of informal housing in Greece as well as the observed differentiations in informal housing patterns across space. The spatial level of analysis is the prefectural administrative ... -
Land use changes and its impacts on water resources in Nile Delta region using remote sensing techniques
(2013)Sustainable water resources management plans depend on reliable monitoring of land use -land cover (LULC) changes. The use of the remote sensing techniques in LULC changes detection brings consistency and reliability to ... -
Soil quality characteristics of traditional agroforestry systems in Mouzaki area, central Greece
(2022)Agroforestry systems (AFS) are characterized by growing trees and crops on the same area, aiming at sustainable production and better natural resources management, whilst potentially contributing to climate change mitigation. ... -
A statistical analysis for RF-EMF exposure levels in sensitive land use: A novel study in Greek primary and secondary education schools
(2020)Background: The increasing popularity of mobile phones and the expansion of network infrastructure in Greece have given rise to public concerns about potential adverse health effects on sensitive groups, such as children, ... -
Towards ranking the water-energy-food-land use-climate nexus interlinkages for building a nexus conceptual model with a Heuristic Algorithm
(2019)The concept of the Water-Energy-Food nexus (WEF), as documented by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), suggests that the three resources are thoroughly interrelated, shaping a complicated web of ... -
Water resources vulnerability assessment in the Adriatic Sea region: the case of Corfu Island
(2017)Cross-border water resources management and protection is a complicated task to achieve, lacking a common methodological framework. Especially in the Adriatic region, water used for drinking water supply purposes pass from ...