Advanced Remote Sensing (Second Edition) - Chapter 20 - Water Storage

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Shunlin Liang and Jindi Wang; Advanced Remote Sensing (Second Edition), 2020, Pages 765-787
This chapter contributes to SDG 6 and 9 by providing satellite techniques to monitor water storage in the Earth's cycle.
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Water and sanitation, Europe

Genomics and the Global Bioeconomy: Translational and Applied Genomics - Chapter 6: Informing marine shipping insurance premiums in the Arctic using marine microbial genomics

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Genomics and the Global Bioeconomy, 2022, pp 125-138
This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure by acknowledging increased rates of Arctic transit resulting from declines in sea ice, recognizing the associated risk of increasingly frequent oil spills, and proposing methods to efficiently and effectively respond to such events.
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Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering - Chapter 16: Climate change interaction with microplastics and nanoplastics pollution

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Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Occurrence, Environmental Impacts and Treatment Processes, 2023, Pages 387-403
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 13: Climate action, and Goal 14: Life below water by providing an overview of the state of knowledge of interactions between climate change and MPs/NPs.
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Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment for Sustainable Ecosystem Services, Volume 2 - Chapter 1: Effect of pollution on sediments and their impact on the aquatic ecosystem

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Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment for Sustainable Ecosystem Services, Volume 2: Microbial Mitigation of Waste for Sustainable Ecosystem Services, Volume 5, 1 January 2022
This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life below water by explaining details of the various pollutants of aquatic sediments and their effects on the health of the aquatic ecosystem.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Chemicals and waste; Health and wellbeing, Global

Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 6 - Chapter 2: Urban water pollution by heavy metals, microplastics, and organic contaminants

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Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 6, 2022, Pages 21-43
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation and Goal 14: Life below water by aiming to critically review previous research on the presence of heavy metals, microplastics, and organic contaminants in urban waters and to synthesize the current knowledge of various urban water pollution sources.
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Water and Climate Change - Chapter 9: Plastic pollution in waterways and in the oceans

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Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues, Volume 1, 1 January 2022
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation and Goal 14: Life below water by compiling and analyzing available data in the literature on the distribution of plastics/MPs in global oceans/seas and rivers and estimated riverine plastics outflows to global oceans.
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Imperiled - The Present and Future Status of Ecosystem Services for Coral Reefs

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Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, 2022, pp 46-54
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 14 by reviewing the range of ecosystem services provided by coral reefs, the human activities that threaten these services and proposing promising policy and management interventions to promote the maintenance of key coral reef ecosystem services into the future.
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Applied Environmental Metabolomics: Community Insights and Guidance from the Field - Chapter 14: Exploring the coral bleaching tipping point with 13C metabolomics

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Applied Environmental Metabolomics, 2022, pp 199-209
This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 13: Climate Action by exploring the application of stable isotope tracing and metabolomics to monitor coral responses to thermal and oxidative stress in order to predict the fitness implications of continued sea warming.
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Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination - Chapter 3: Effect of wastewater from industries on freshwater ecosystem: Threats and remedies

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Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination, Volume 1, 1 January 2022
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 3: Good health and well-being, and Goal 14: Life below water by summarizing different types of wastewater, its effects on freshwater ecosystem, and remedies to reduce the effect of these effluents on freshwater ecosystem and indirectly on humans.
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Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Decontamination, Global

Plastic Pollution and Marine Conservation - Chapter 1: Marine plastics: what’s wrong with them?

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Plastic Pollution and Marine Conservation: Approaches to Protect Biodiversity and Marine Life, Volume 1, 1 January 2022
This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 12: Responsible Consumption by providing an overview of marine plastic waste and policy options to promote a circular plastic economy.
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Oceans & Seas; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

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