Perceptions of indigenous people as service providers on payments for forest environmental services in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

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Trees, Forests and People, Volume 8, June 2022
The study assessed the perceptions of indigenous peoples on the Vietnam payments for forest environmental services (PFES) program. The majority of indigenous people were satisfied with PFES participation.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Asia

Sustainable development or developmental sustainability: Two cases of indigenous knowledge and practices for sustainable sourcing for wood-based design-solutions

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Trees, Forests and People, Volume 8, June 2022
Sustainable wood-based design solutions necessarily presuppose economically, socially, and environmentally reliable sources of wood use for any future designs. However, increasingly unsustainable effects from climate extremity are now prompting the search for alternative forms of use that avoid or forestall those effects.
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National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Sustainable tourism, Africa

An ensemble empirical mode decomposition of consecutive dry days in the Zambezi Riparian Region: Implications for water management

Elsevier, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Volume 126, June 2022
The Zambezi Riparian Region (ZRR) is a lifeline and home to ∼40 million people who depend heavily on the river basin for their livelihood.
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National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Sustainable cities and human settlements, Africa

Pollutec, the international trade show for environmental equipment, technologies and services

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Born in 1978, Pollutec is recognized today as the reference meeting place for environment professionals. The event develops multiple SDGs, including SDGs 6 (clean water and sanitation), 7 (affordable and clean energy), 12 (responsible consumption and production) and 13 (climate action).
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Climate change; Energy; Green economy; Water and sanitation

World Environment Day 2022

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World Environment Day is the most renowned day for environmental action.

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Chemicals and waste; Climate change; Desertification, land degradation and drought; Health and population; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Global

Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology (Third Edition): Chapter 42 - Traffic-related air pollution and the developing brain

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Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology (Third Edition), 2022, Pages 833-843
This chapter focuses on the adverse effects of air pollution on the developing brain and discusses the evidence from human and animal studies suggesting that exposure to elevated air pollution during pre- and early postnatal development is associated with a number of behavioral and biochemical adverse effects.
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Atmosphere; Health and population, Global

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition - Moving Towards Water Sensitive Cities: A Planning Framework, Underlying Principles, and Technologies—Case Study Kunshan Sponge City

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Junyu Zhang, Dafang Fu, Chris Zevenbergen, Moving Towards Water Sensitive Cities: A Planning Framework, Underlying Principles, and Technologies—Case Study Kunshan Sponge City, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 399-416, ISBN 9780128220412
This chapter advances SDG 6, 11 and 12 by highlighting the typical water-related features of an urbanizing polder, and its transformation into a water sensitive or “Sponge City”. Recent experiences in Kunshan city, China, are used as an example.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Asia

Encyclopedia of Inalnd Waters, Second Edition -

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Julia Derx, Rita Linke, Domenico Savio, Monica Emelko, Philip Schmidt, Jack Schijven, Liping Pang, Regina Sommer, Margaret Stevenson, Harold van den Berg, Saskia Rutjes, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Alfred Paul Blaschke, From Groundwater to Drinking Water – Current Approaches for Microbial Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Porous Aquifers, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 580-594, ISBN 9780128220412
This chapter supports SDG 6 by summarizing the current approaches for evaluating pathogen fate and transport in the environment, their removal during subsurface transport in porous aquifers and the needed infection protection to achieve safe drinking water.
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Health and population; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

Air pollution and risk of chronic obstructed pulmonary disease: The modifying effect of genetic susceptibility and lifestyle

Elsevier, eBioMedicine, Volume 79, May 2022
Background: The effect of long-term exposure to air pollution on the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is still controversial, and the role of the interactions of air polluti
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Atmosphere; Health and wellbeing, Europe

Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design- Chapter 7: Deep learning in urban analysis for health

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Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design, Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts, 2022, Pages 121-138
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health by providing an overview of research on the use of image data of the built environment to analyze impacts on human health and explaining the challenges that need to be addressed to realize a new data-driven era of urban analysis and planning.
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