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Justino Sobreiro, Maria Isabel Patanita, Manuel Patanita and Alexandra Tomaz
The production of olive oil in Portugal and other countries of the Mediterranean region has greatly increased in recent years. Intensification efforts have focused on the growth of the planted area, but also on the increase of the orchards density and th...
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Shihao Shan, Hongzhen Ni, Xichen Lin and Genfa Chen
As one of the important policy measures to promote water conservation and efficient utilization, the evaluation of water resources tax reform policy regarding its water saving and economic impact (WSEI) is a fundamental prerequisite for policy implementa...
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Yining Bai, Saeed P. Langarudi and Alexander G. Fernald
Exploring the dynamic mechanisms of coupled sociohydrologic systems is necessary to solve future water sustainability issues. This paper employs system dynamics modeling to determine hydrologic and economic implications of an irrigation efficiency (IE) p...
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G.-Fivos Sargentis, Romanos Ioannidis, Theano Iliopoulou, Panayiotis Dimitriadis and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Even though landscape quality is largely a subjective issue, the integration of infrastructure into landscapes has been identified as a key element of sustainability. In a spatial planning context, the landscape impacts that are generated by infrastructu...
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José Pedro Carvalho, Manuela Almeida, Luís Bragança and Ricardo Mateus
Buildings are responsible for several negative impacts on the environment, most of them related to nonrenewable energy consumption, increasing the concern regarding buildings energy efficiency. In this context, computer software has been used to estimate...
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