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Browsing Nicholas School of the Environment by Submit Date
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(2017-08-18)Sea level rise (SLR) and severe weather events have already exposed the vulnerability of coastal cities to flood events. Regional planning bodies are developing comprehensive plans to build resiliency utilizing both hardened ...
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(2017-04-28)Objective: Air pollution is a major public health threat in cities across the world, especially in India. To protect local communities from rising air pollution levels, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the ...
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(2017-04-28)The RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association) Department of Sustainability tasked the Duke team with exploring and defining sustainable consumption and production in the next generation of the U.S. retail market. The Duke ...
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(2017-04-28)In the past five years, significant advances have been made in providing energy access to base of the pyramid African consumers. Increased attention to energy poverty on a global scale has galvanized innovative business ...
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(2017-04-28)In recent years, Paraguay has become one of the top five countries with the highest acceleration in deforestation rates. Between 2000 and 2015, Paraguay lost 20 percent of its tree-covered area. The two main drivers of ...
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(2017-04-28)Urban agriculture and community gardens can be a means to increase the wellbeing of vulnerable communities, including reductions in food insecurity, opportunities for outdoor exercise and social interaction and even increases ...
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(2017-04-28)Balancing development and conservation is a struggle that all countries face, but is especially difficult in tropical, developing nations. Development activities in these nations often rely on extractive industries to ...
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(2017-04-28)Studies show that concentrations of methylmercury in fish increase in association with flooding. Additionally, the southeastern Amazonian region of Peru, Madre de Dios (MDD), is seeing increased development of artisanal ...
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(2017-04-28)The three-month Charleston Bump time-area closure was implemented in 2001 with the primary goal of reducing bycatch of juvenile swordfish in the U.S. Atlantic pelagic longline fishery. Due to this closure and other management ...
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(2017-04-28)A YieldCo is a publicly traded investment vehicle that owns operating energy assets, the majority of which are typically renewable, and whose stated purpose is to distribute the majority of its available cash to shareholders ...
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(2017-04-28)Each year in the U.S., coal-fired power plants generate over 100 million tons of coal combustion residuals (CCRs). Notable CCR spills in Tennessee and North Carolina drew attention to the potential hazards of CCR storage ...
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(2017-04-28)The astounding scope of the global energy poverty challenge has motivated many organizations to provide solar energy solutions to lighting, heating, and cooking needs in off-grid settings. However, poorly designed or ...
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(2017-04-28)Located within the United States Department of the Interior (DOI), the Natural Resource Investment Center (NRIC) was created under the Obama Administration to facilitate resource conservation through innovative partnerships ...
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(2017-04-28)Private companies, or commercial services, provide goods and services within national parks including lodging, food, transportation, and guided activities. One way for commercial services to operate within a national park ...
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(2017-04-28)As the Sustainable Duke Office at Duke University determines the next steps on how best to integrate a satellite campus such as Duke Kunshan University (DKU) into its Climate Action Plan, it is important for both DKU and ...
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(2017-04-28)The whale watching industry is rapidly expanding throughout the world. Researchers have found that the experience of whale watching holds value within the context of ecological education and can foster a sensitivity towards ...
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(2017-04-28)Graph theoretic evaluations of habitat connectivity often rely upon least cost path analyses to determine the connectedness of any two habitat patches, based on an underlying cost surface. I present two improvements upon ...
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(2017-04-28)The South Atlantic red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) stock is overfished and experiencing overfishing without an open recreational fishing season. Red snapper are caught incidentally when anglers target other species in ...
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(2017-04-28)The South Atlantic red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) stock is overfished and experiencing overfishing without an open recreational fishing season. Red snapper are caught incidentally when anglers target other species in ...
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(2017-04-28)With some of the best solar resources of the world, Chile is positioned to vastly reduce its consumption of fossil fuels and ramp-up the share of renewables for electricity generation. Distributed generation facilities ...
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