Soil and Groundwater Characteristics of a Legacy Spill Site by A Adoki

“…The soil and groundwater of a legacy spill site in Eleme Local Government Authority Area of Rivers Stae were investigated. The general land use of the area within 1500m radius of the spill site is devoted to farming, fishing and hunting. …”
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Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…After sixty years of a very unbalanced postcolonial status quo, the Kanak people rebelled in the 1980’s to put an end to their exclusion from social, economic, and professional equal opportunities and to the loss of their ancestral land. …”
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Safe Use of Glyphosate-containing Products in Aquatic and Upland Natural Areas by Kenneth A. Langeland

“… Land and water managers who apply herbicides to control invasive plant species and other nuisance vegetation strive to minimize environmental impacts as a matter of policy and daily operations. …”
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The Everyday Commoning Practices in Urbanising Localities by Bhuvaneswari Raman, Eric Denis

“…Consequently, those in poverty are compelled to compete with more powerful actors in order to assert their right to the common land they occupy for the purpose of housing. The two case studies demonstrate the capacity of such communities to unite and engage in practical political actions to regularise their settlements and dwellings. …”
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« Can't repeat the past? Well maybe not... » A Doomed Trip Down Memory Lane, in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's Southern Stories by Pascal Bardet

“…In each story, the American South is never analyzed or described per se but always in comparison to northern places that put each character to the test and make them long for the land of their lost youth and innocence. …”
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Safe Use of Glyphosate-containing Products in Aquatic and Upland Natural Areas by Kenneth A. Langeland

“… Land and water managers who apply herbicides to control invasive plant species and other nuisance vegetation strive to minimize environmental impacts as a matter of policy and daily operations. …”
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Pourquoi tant de malls à Téhéran ? by Ronan des Vallières

“…Its main hypothesis is that the proliferation of these buildings is not related to business strategies but to their quality of financial assets, allowing fast, substantial land-based profits. This land-use issue is to be put in perspective with, first, the centrality of real estate sector in Tehran through recent history ; second, the upheavals of this sector and municipal budget resources which have lead investors and the municipality to favour retail property ; third, the recent rise of a para-public sector capable of investing in such big projects. …”
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Sistemas Fisiográficos del Área Natural Protegida "Valle Cretácico"; Provincia de Río Negro by Nora Romina Solorza, Marcos Damián Mare

“…Given this context, the Rio Negro provincial government has materialized in 2010 an old regulation initiative aimed at sustainable management of those lands. This paper is a revised and shortened version of the biophysical studies of carried out as a part of the interdisciplinary technical reports for the "Management Plan of the Protected Natural Area (PNA) Cretaceous Valley" of the Rio Negro Province. …”
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Tourism activities and companies in a sustainable adventure tourism destination: the Azores by João Ponte, Gualter Couto, Pedro Pimentel, André Oliveira

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Intérêt du principe de solidarité écologique pour la valorisation des usages pastoraux dans les Pyrénées by Sigrid Aubert

“…The aim is to restore the dynamics of law revealed by legal pluralism by paying particular attention to the conditions of emergence and promotion of social innovations carried by collectives of users of the land and the natural resources. In many situations, these social innovations contribute to the assumption of responsibility by citizens for interdependent relationships between humans and between humans and non-humans, in contexts where the proposals put forward by the State or the markets do not seem satisfactory to the inhabitants of the territories concerned. …”
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Evaluation on Carbon Sequestration Capacity of 30 Common Landscaping Tree Species in Beijing by Jing QIAN, Sidong SHEN, Shuxin FAN, Li DONG

“…According to the assimilation amount method, the annual carbon sequestration per unit leaf area, per unit land area and per plant are calculated respectively. …”
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Strategies of GIS-Based Urban Country Park Planning and Ecological Restoration by Li Hong, Songling Pang, Chunfu Zhu, Yuhao Li, Yuxiao Guo, Tingting Lei, Kun Wang

“…Specifically, the area of ecological restoration is further divided into the areas of quarry restoration, bare land restoration, slope protection, vegetation, and dam maintenance, and restorative measures are put forward accordingly. …”
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Challenges to Teaching and Learning of Agriculture in Secondary Schools in Rubanda West Constituency Rubanda District. by Ariyo, Vincent

“…Other challenges involved high teacher workload and punitive practices, such as requiring students to weed flowers, which negatively impacted their attitudes toward agriculture. …”
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Bamboo Growing and Poverty Reduction in Musanze and Burera Districts, Rwanda. by Eric, Hitimana

“…However, the major challenge was that there was limited land for expansion of the activity. None the less the study concluded that bamboo growing is pertinent in poverty reduction in this part of Rwanda because of reasons that are socio-economic. …”
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La biodiversité dans des territoires insulaires, approche théorique et perspectives de développement by Jean-Raphaël Gros-Désormeaux

“…Facing the irreversible effects of hunting and the destruction of biotopes, land-use planning and economic development of the insulars territory tend to be conceived by taking into account sustainable management integrating world diversity : that is the biodiversity in its broadest meaning. …”
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Concrete Production and Curing with Recycled Wastewater: A Review on the Current State of Knowledge and Practice by Tobby Michael, Agwe, Tibenderana, Philip, Twesigye-Omwe, Moses N, Abdulkadir, Sholagberu Taofeeq

“…These include increasing population, rapid urbanization, industrialization, changed land pattern usage and land cover, change in the overall ecological system, and increased temperature and unscientific compromises in the extraction of water are at alarming threshold putting pressure on the finite available freshwater resources. …”
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Concrete Production and Curing with Recycled Wastewater: A Review on the Current State of Knowledge and Practice by Tobby Michael, Agwe, Philip, Tibenderana, Moses N., Twesigye-Omwe, Joel, Webster Mbujje, Sholagberu Taofeeq, Abdulkadir

“…These include increasing population, rapid urbanization, industrialization, changed land pattern usage and land cover, change in the overall ecological system, and increased temperature and unscientific compromises in the extraction of water are at alarming threshold putting pressure on the finite available freshwater resources. …”
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Concrete Production and Curing with Recycled Wastewater: A Review on the Current State of Knowledge and Practice by Tobby Michael, Agwe, Philip, Tibenderana, Moses N, Twesigye-Omwe, Joel Webster, Mbujje, Abdulkadir, Sholagberu Taofeeq

“…These include increasing population, rapid urbanization, industrialization, changed land pattern usage and land cover, change in the overall ecological system, and increased temperature and unscientific compromises in the extraction of water are at alarming threshold putting pressure on the finite available freshwater resources. …”
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Research on positioning precision testing methods in GPS continuously operating reference station system by TANG Wei-ming1, LOU Yi-dong1, LIU Hui1, CHEN Ri-gao2, YANG Qiu2

“…The positioning Precision testing methods of CORS were introduced in detail.Based on the testing method of static fixed point and the method of comparing with the post-processing positioning result,the paper put forward land regular geometrical track kinematic testing method and fixed baseline length relative testing method.The testing resulted of a CORS system obtained with the former three methods show that the proposed method are valid and fit to the general precision testing of most CORS system.…”
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Être le dernier : Ishi, l’homme-archive by Carine Trevisan

“…Ishi, sole survivor of the Yana Indian tribe, which was exterminated after a policy of predation and a brutal colonization of his land, the last man to speak the language of this tribe and to know all the technical skills dating back to Stone age (tool making, hunting…), gets into the white “civilization” in 1911. …”
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