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Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz
In the Canary Islands, there is a hydrological imbalance between water consumption and renewable water availability. To provide more water resources, reverse osmosis (RO) from seawater is used. As boron (B) contents in irrigation water higher than 0.7 mg...
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Antonio Jaramillo Dayag
Pág. 66 - 76
Banks are believed to instrumental to economic growth because it provides the financial backbone needed to spur economic development through business creation and expansion. A healthy and resilient banking sector signals economic growth and develop...
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Nao Yamamoto, Masaru Yamamoto, Toshiya Hirowatari
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Carlos Matos, Pedro Cabrera, José A. Carta and Noemi Melián-Martel
Water scarcity is a global problem that particularly affects islands located in arid regions or regions with limited water resources. This issue has prompted the development of non-conventional water sources such as fossil fuel-powered desalination syste...
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Zhen Yao, Jie Chen, Changbo Jiang, Hai Liang, Zhiyuan Wu, Bin Deng, Yuannan Long and Chen Bian
This study utilized 50 laboratory experiments to document the evolution of coral beaches under varying regular wave conditions, including five distinct wave periods and ten wave heights. Both the type of equilibrium beach and the shape of sand bars were ...
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Minxing Dong, Jichao Yang, Yushan Fu, Tengfei Fu, Qing Zhao, Xuelei Zhang, Qinzeng Xu and Wenquan Zhang
The soft coral order Alcyonacea is a common coral found in the deep sea and plays a crucial role in the deep-sea ecosystem. This study aims to predict the distribution of Alcyonacea in the western Pacific Ocean using four machine learning-based species d...
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Jifei Cui, Yanhao Jin, Yingjie Jing and Yu Lu
An elastoplastic analysis scheme for the cylindrical cavity expansion in offshore islands unsaturated soils considering anisotropy is established. The hydraulic properties and anisotropy caused by stress of unsaturated soils are coupled in an elastoplast...
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Anna Lisa Cescon, James Andrew Graham Cooper and Derek W. T. Jackson
Beach ridges originate from various depositional processes and occur in a variety of settings. This paper assesses their nature and distribution on the islands of the Greater Caribbean based on a literature review and the identification of sites using Go...
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Qiankun Wang, Ke Zhu, Peiwen Guo, Jiaji Zhang and Zhihua Xiong
Faced with the challenges of global climate change, zero-carbon buildings (ZCB) serve as a crucial means to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, particularly in the development of tropical island regions. This study aims to establish a ZCB te...
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Asteris Apostolidis, Stijn Donckers, Dave Peijnenburg and Konstantinos P. Stamoulis
This study focuses on the feasibility of electric aircraft operations between the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It explores the technical characteristics of two different future electric aircraft types (i.e., Alice and ES-19) and comp...
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