environmental impact landscape

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  New law protects our planet, supports eco-friendly gardening in Maryland

  2021102 · What this means for your yard: Can you give up the “perfect lawn”?October 1, 2021The truth about turf Join the movement Low-impact landscaping details Resources for creating an environmentally-friendly landscape It’s October, and Maryland has a new law, one that will help the environment and give us gardeners a little more freedom. Earlier …

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  Measuring the effectiveness of landscape approaches to …

  20161128 · Corporations are increasingly using landscape approaches when purchasers require reassurance that production processes observe social and environmental standards (Kissinger et al. 2015 ). Evidence of impact is clearly needed to support these uses of the approach.

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  Landscape effects of environmental impact on bay-area …

  2010315 · Environmental impacts and landscape effects of urban expansion on bay-area wetlands were assessed based on remote sensing data, spatial analyses from GIS, and methods from landscape ecology. Fig. 2 illustrates the overall research approach, and the following sections explain methods regarding the application of these three tools.

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  Peri-urban planning: A landscape perspective - Jiangdi Tan, …

  2023529 · The proposed landscape-based framework incorporates the landscape concept into peri-urban planning rationalities to address the complexities and transitions of this emerging urban space. This framework is a people-centred, morphogenetic-based, and integrated approach linked to space, time, and human societies.

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  A legendary landscape in peril: Land use and land cover …

  202211 · The WRB landscape became more diverse compositionally (increasing land cover types), more fragmented ecologically (habitat loss and isolation), and more complex geometrically (anthropogenic and natural landscape elements entangled). Damming, mining, and overgrazing were the major direct drivers for the observed environmental changes.

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  Environmental impacts of cotton and opportunities for …

  202395 · Cotton is a water-intensive crop with many environmental impacts before and after it is processed into consumer goods. This Review summarizes the environmental impacts across the life cycle of ...

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  Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management

  20171221 · The Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management is an international medium for the publication of original research on the environment with emphasis on changes caused by human activities and international research towards sustainability. The scope is multidisciplinary and international and the subjects covered …

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  Sustainable Residential Design: Using Low-Impact Materials

  2  · Sustainable residential landscape design can increase the health of environment through the use of innovative low-impact materials that are permeable and reflective (high albedo). Permeable materials allow water to infiltrate and recharge aquifers, instead of being sent to combined stormwater and sewer systems.

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  Impact of forest landscape restoration in combating soil …

  202422 · As an effect of forest degradation, soil erosion is among Ethiopia’s most pressing environmental challenges and a major threat to food security where it could potentially compromise the ecosystem functions and services. As the effects of soil erosion intensify, the landscape’s capacity to support ecosystem functions and services is …

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  Landscape - National Geographic Society

  20231019 · A landscape is part of Earth's surface that can be viewed at one time from one place. It consists of the geographic features that mark, or are characteristic of, a particular area. The term comes from the Dutch word landschap, the name given to paintings of the countryside. Geographers have borrowed the word from artists.

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