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The Bitcoin Dilemma : Weighing the Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits

Read, Colin - 2022

1. Introduction -- Part I. The Cypherpunk Bible -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. The Creator -- 4. The Disciples -- 5. he Genesis Block -- Part II. Cryptocurrency Corporatization -- 6. A New Testament -- 7. Public Ledgers, Private Wallets, and Crypto Vulnerabilities -- 8. Bitcoin Goes Corporate --...

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Community responses and adaptation strategies toward flood hazard in Jakarta, Indonesia

Marfai, Muh; Sekaranom, Andung; Ward, Philip - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 2, pp. 1127-1144

increasingly recognized that community responses and adaptation strategies are essential for planning future mitigation action. In … order to investigate the community responses and adaptation strategies employed in Jakarta, in-depth interviews were … hazard, and it can be inferred that community responses remain below the ideal. This study highlights the need for urgent …

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Roles of Levies for Sustainable Domestic Water Consumption

Wu, Zhifang; McKay, Jennifer; Hemphill, Elizabeth - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 3, pp. 929-940

Sustainable development is the modern rhetoric to guide environmental or natural resources management. There are many ways to do this and one is the wider utilization of economic instruments, such as taxes and levies. Although such levies are becoming common in Australia and worldwide, the role...

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Linking multi-temporal analysis and community consultation to evaluate the response to the impact of Hurricane Stan in coffee areas of Chiapas, Mexico

Cruz-Bello, Gustavo; Eakin, Hallie; Morales, Helda; … - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 1, pp. 103-116

This paper analyses the responses related to land use of coffee growers in Chiapas, Mexico to the impact of Hurricane Stan (October 2005). A multi-temporal analysis of the effect on land cover was performed through the combination of unsupervised classification of SPOT multispectral images and...

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Scientific Perceptions and Community Responses in a Participatory Water Management Endeavor

Singh, Atul; Sikka, A.; Upadhyaya, A.; Bhatnagar, P.; … - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 9, pp. 1173-1189

People and technology are the two major ingredients considered to enhance benefits and provide opportunities in farming system. Perfect blending of these ingredients not only leads to maximize the agricultural production but also helps in improving livelihood. Openhanded efforts have been...

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