Carbon emission reduction is one of the key factors in global climate change and should be
an important component in urban planning and management. A full understanding of the …

Management is failing to adequately protect coastal ecosystems. Here we reviewed the
policies, legislation, plans and management frameworks intended to protect seagrass …

Pixel-based and object-based image analysis approaches for classifying broad land cover
classes over agricultural landscapes are compared using three supervised machine …

Forested riparian buffers are recommended to mitigate negative effects of forest harvesting
on recipient freshwater ecosystems. Most of the current best practices of riparian buffer …

Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong
Region for assessing the impacts of hydropower dams and large-scale industrial tree …

Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are rapidly sprawling, both globally and across the
Amazon's free flowing rivers, threatening provision of ecosystem services, river connectivity …

Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) is a sub-discipline of environmental impact
assessment that is concerned with appraising the collective effects of human activities and …

Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) became an increasingly important component of
environmental impact assessment (EIA; or simply environment assessment (EA)) shortly …

The cumulative effects of increasing human use of the ocean and coastal zone have
contributed to a rapid decline in ocean and coastal resources. As a result, scientists are …

Assessing and managing the cumulative impacts of human activities on the environment
remains a major challenge to sustainable development. This challenge is highlighted by the …