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Xianghua Chen, Wenxin Chen, Liyuan Zhao and Yekai Chen
The rapid pace of urbanization has led to an increasing frequency of road collapses, posing a significant threat to urban traffic safety. Underground pipeline leakage stands out as the primary cause of such collapses. This paper presents a macroscopic an...
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Francisco Grajales-Saavedra, Alexis Mojica, Carlos Ho, Krysna Samudio, George Mejía, Saddy Li, Larisa Almengor, Roberto Miranda and Melisabel Muñoz
The City of David constitutes one of the most important commercial centers of the Republic of Panama. However, it is located on a coastal plane, close to an area with high seismic activity and has been affected by significant earthquakes (18 July 1934, M...
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Qingsheng Meng, Yang Li, Wenjing Wang, Yuhong Chen and Shilin Wang
Silt liquefaction can occur due to the rapid cyclic loading of sediments. This can result in the loss of the bearing capacity of the underlying sediments and damage to the foundations and infrastructure. Therefore, assessing liquefaction hazards is an im...
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Teodor Kitczak, Grzegorz Jarnuszewski and Ryszard Malinowski
Reed canary grass (RCG) is a native perennial grass with a wide range of uses that naturally occurs in moist habitats. The conducted research indicates the possibilities of RCG cultivation outside natural, humid habitats in monoculture on sandy soils in ...
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Tim Wolters, Ian McNamara, Björn Tetzlaff and Frank Wendland
The input of nutrients into surface waters and groundwater is directly linked to runoff components. Due to the different physicochemical behaviour of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds, the individual runoff components have different significance as input...
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Huimin Zhou, Tingping Ouyang, Yu Guo, Shasha Peng, Chenjian He and Zhaoyu Zhu
As a primary sink of pollutants, urban soil heavy metal pollution and its influence on urban residents and ecosystems has been becoming one of the most important environmental problems. In the present study, four indices, the Geoaccumulation index (Igeo)...
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Nour S. Abu-Shanab, Kholoud M. Alananbeh, Yahia A. Othman and Malik G. Al-Ajlouni
Lawns achieve environmental, functional, and aesthetical roles in urban environments. The objectives of this research were to assess the effect of different salinity levels on Trichoderma isolates and to study the effect of Trichoderma spp. on perennial ...
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Cecilia Herbón, María Teresa Barral and Remigio Paradelo
With the objective of increasing information inorganic pollutants in urban soils in Spain, we studied the presence of Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr, and As in 55 soils in the city of Santiago de Compostela (northwestern Spain). The soils were developed over diverse...
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Ming Fai Chow, Muhammad Fadhlullah Abu Bakar, Jee Khai Wong and Lloyd Ling
Extensive green roof is one of the sustainable urban stormwater management alternatives to manage and mitigate the urban surface runoff. In order to implement green roofs more effectively, suitable plant species and substrate components for tropical clim...
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Ursula Steinfort,Américo Contreras,Francisco Albornoz,Sonia Reyes-Paecke,Paola Guilleminot
Urban vegetation is generally exposed to adverse environmental conditions, such as high temperatures, compacted soils, low fertility, and a high pollutant concentration. The influence of biophysical and social factors on the survival and condition of tre...
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