Vivre en écolieu, vivre en collectif à la campagne : faire dans, faire avec, faire pour un territoire ? by Gabrielle de Chevron Villette, Michaël Pouzenc

“…This paper focuses on collaborative ecohousing spaces (ecovillages, eco-communities or ‘écolieux’ in French) where people explore and experience other ways of doing and making collectively, with respect for earth care and living systems. Two case studies show how the inhabitants of these living spaces create special space-time frameworks in order to bring together a certain aspiration for autonomy with the need to be anchored in a particular territory. …”
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Performance analysis of a satellite–multi-terrestrial relay network with hardware impairments using switch-and-stay combining scheme by Kefeng Guo, Bangning Zhang, Yuzhen Huang, Daoxing Guo

“…Space information networks are able to enhance detection and transmission capabilities compared to the current single Earth observation satellite. The satellite–terrestrial network is an important component of the space information networks. …”
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Reframing the ‘South’: Divisions of the Globe and British Geographical Imaginations in the Victorian and Edwardian Era by Daniel Foliard

“…Most atlases and general maps published in London or Edinburgh in the late nineteenth century represented the earth along a longitudinal divide. This framework reflected deep-rooted cultural legacies dating back to the Renaissance. …”
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Statistical and synoptic analysis of cold waves in North West of Iran by yousouf ghavidel rahimi, manochehr farajzadeh asl, solmaz motalebizad

“…This study suggests that the prevailing pressure pattern during the relevant wave indicates high pressure over the earth surface as well as deep trough in upper layer. …”
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Récit en mouvement : la construction d’un territoire paysan à Rio Bonito do Iguaçu au Brésil by Mathilde Teixeira Col

“…In the context of the socio-environmental crisis we are currently undergoing, it is inevitable that we rethink our ways of inhabiting territories in order to break with the dominant logic of monopolization and abusive exploitation of the Earth’s resources. In Brazil, a country where land inequalities are structural, the peasant movement of the « landless » is the protagonist of the struggle for agrarian reform, in favor of social and environmental justice. …”
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Chondrites isp. Indicating Late Paleozoic Atmospheric Anoxia in Eastern Peninsular India by Biplab Bhattacharya, Sudipto Banerjee

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Wind Velocity Vertical Extrapolation by Extended Power Law by Zekai Şen, Abdüsselam Altunkaynak, Tarkan Erdik

“…At this location, hourly wind speed measurements are available for three different heights above the earth surface.…”
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Urbino, ou l’histoire des relations de coévolution entre un établissement humain et son milieu naturel by Roberta Morelli

“…This article hypothesizes that rethinking the relationship to the Earth’s resources means both reevaluating the interdependence between anthropogenic action and the natural environment, as well as identifying the necessary conditions for the interaction of the material and immaterial dimensions of the notion of resource. …”
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COMMON USES OF EDIBLE PLANTS IN THE COQUIMBO REGION, CHILE by Eduardo Antonio Jaime Muñoz

“…The study area was delimited with the help of the computer program Google Earth, bibliographic material was used to identify the plants and with some villagers help, their common names were recognized; some didactic schemes were done to organize and describe the information. …”
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Brat – ojciec – matka. Specyfika braterstwa minoryckiego by Wiesław Block

“…The idea of Minorite brotherhood is not limited to the community of the Friars Minor only but also extends to the whole creation, though for the most part he focuses on the relationship that has the scope of uniting the brothers from the four corners of the earth into a fellowship following in the footsteps of the poor and humble Jesus Christ. …”
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Impacts of different photovoltaic panel technologies on electrical energy production and CO2 emission reduction by Iva Batić

“…Given the increasing human population on Earth, there is a corresponding increase in the need for energy. …”
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Aerosol Effects on the Atmosphere: Types, Mechanisms and Future Perspectives by Wang Yuanjie

“…Aerosols directly affect the Earth’s energy balance by scattering and absorbing solar radiation and indirectly affect climate and precipitation patterns by acting as cloud condensation nuclei, altering cloud formation and microphysical properties. …”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Dioxins by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“… Dioxins are among the most toxic chemicals on the earth. They are by-products of a number of human activities such as combustion of fuels and wastes containing polyvinyl chloride (PVC), chlorine bleaching of paper products, and selected industrial processes. …”
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Uso de los parques recreativos en Mérida, Yucatán by Susana Pérez Medina, Lane F. Fargher

“…La metodología se basó en la aplicación de encuestas y de los softwares Google Earth y ArcGis 13. Los resultados muestran que ninguna de las zonas cuenta con una oferta suficiente de parques ni con los equipamientos adecuados; sin embargo, la accesibilidad de los usuarios, tanto física como percibida, sus contextos sociales y económicos, así como sus cualidades de consumo, hacen que cada grupo tenga particularidades en el uso de dichos espacios.…”
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The Study and Analysis of city structure and its permanent development (Case study: Ardabil city) by Moharram Yousefi, Alireza Estelaji, Naser Fallah Tabar

“…The Earth and how it is used have always been the main things in city planning. …”
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Editorial: Coastal rewilding as a nature-based solution by Cintia O. Quintana, Cintia O. Quintana, Vona Méléder, Ana I. Sousa, Evangelia G. Drakou, Daphne van der Wal, Daphne van der Wal, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Vincent Andreu-Boussut

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Skepping en evolusie: 'n filosofiese besinning oor tyd, ruimte en materie by P. H. Stoker

“…The result is ages of thousands of million years for the earth and early life,and for a universe, having a size in terms of this number of light-years. …”
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Prediction of Climate Change Induced Hydrogeomorphology by using SDSM in CAN Watershed by Ali Ahmadabadi, Zahra sedighifar

“…Climate change is one of the most important challenges that has affected various parts of human life on Earth. In the present study, in order to investigate the climate change, three synoptic stations of Karaj, Mehrabad and Dashan Tepeh with the help of the statistical statistic downscaling model (SDSM) model were used to predict the statistical period of 2016-2045. …”
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Assessment of environmental risks to the Voronezh Oblast public health resulted from contamination of drinking water sources by Anatasia S. Boeva, Tatiana I. Prozhorina, Anna G. Baskakova

“…The relevance of research is particularly high for the Central Black Earth Region due to the high population density and the presence of numerous dispersed sources of environmental risk with a chemical type of impact on natural waters. …”

A Metastable Aluminosilica Compound for Aluminum and Water Transport to the Upper Mantle by Frans J. M. Rietmeijer, Joseph A. Nuth

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