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Urban sustainability: Analyzing the water-energy nexus in the Guandu river basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

González-Bravo, Ramón; Marques, Maria Clara; Bezerra, … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 254-260

Urban sustainability has been one of the most important issues in the last decades. The modification of watercourses and their integration to power production facilities have resulted in severe environmental impacts around the globe. This study presents a sustainability analysis to examine the...

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Development of a Demand Driven Hydro-climatic Model for Drought Planning

Karamouz, Mohammad; Imen, Sanaz; Nazif, Sara - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 2, pp. 329-357

change effects. Water planning and management during droughts needs to deal with water demand variability, uncertainties in …

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An Integrated Approach for Partitioning the Effect of Climate Change and Human Activities on Surface Runoff

Zhan, Chesheng; Zeng, Sidong; Jiang, Shanshan; Wang, Huixiao - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 11, pp. 3843-3858

Climate change and human activities have been identified as the two main reasons for the change in runoff. To better understand the factors causing runoff change, this paper develops an integrated approach which combined the elasticity coefficient approach (including a non-parametric model and...

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Urban sustainability: analyzing the water-energy nexus in the Guandu river basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

González-Bravo, Ramón; Marques, Maria Clara; Bezerra, … - In: Energy reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 254-260

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ADDRESSING AND COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS UNCERTAINTIES IN PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS

BYER, PHILIP H.; LALANI, MELANIE J.; YEOMANS, JULIAN SCOTT - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 11 (2009) 01, pp. 29-50

While climate change has become an important concern at both regional and global levels, its inherent uncertainties … the corresponding uncertainties have been addressed even more poorly. This paper describes several basic approaches for … addressing and analysing climate change within the EAs of individual projects with a focus on its uncertainties. Subsequently …

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Adapting to climate change: a comparison of two strategies for dike heightening

Hoekstra, Arjen; Kok, Jean-Luc - In: Natural Hazards 47 (2008) 2, pp. 217-228

In the Netherlands the current dike design policy is to design flood defence structures corresponding to an agreed flooding probability with an extra safety board of at least 0.5 m. For river dikes a return period of 1,250 years is used to determine the design water levels. A problem with this...

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Adaptive planning for climate resilient long-lived infrastructures

Giordano, Thierry - In: Utilities Policy 23 (2012) C, pp. 80-89

to successfully integrate climate change uncertainties. This paper explores the relationships between climate change and … long-lived infrastructure according to the different types of direct and indirect uncertainties surrounding climate change … explains how this same process could be reviewed to make it more responsive to the many uncertainties surrounding our future …

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Globalisation after the pandemic

Lagarde, Christine - 2021

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How can technology significantly contribute to climate change mitigation?

Alestra, Claire; Cette, Gilbert; Chouard, Valérie; … - 2023

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Tax-versus-trading and efficient revenue recycling as issues for greenhouse gas abatement

Pezzey, John C. V.; Jotzo, Frank - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 64 (2012) 2, pp. 230-236

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