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Kristina M. Chomiak, Wendy A. Owens-Rios, Carmella M. Bangkong, Steven W. Day, Nathan C. Eddingsaas, Matthew J. Hoffman, André O. Hudson and Anna Christina Tyler
Plastic debris is a growing threat in freshwater ecosystems and transport models predict that many plastics will sink to the benthos. Among the most common plastics found in the Laurentian Great Lakes sediments are polyethylene terephthalate (especially ...
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Rita Nicolau and Beatriz Condessa
This study seeks to contribute to the definition of a ?no net land take? policy by 2050 for Portugal?s second-largest metropolitan region (AMP, Porto Metropolitan Area) while sensitising those involved in regional and local planning to the European targe...
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Audrey Maria Noemi Martellotta, Daniel Levacher, Francesco Gentile and Alberto Ferruccio Piccinni
The reduction in the usable capacity of reservoirs, which is linked to the ongoing silting phenomenon, has led to the need to remove sediments to allow the storage of greater quantities of water resources. At the same time, however, the removal of sedime...
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Janja Kramer Stajnko, Renata Jecl and Matja? Nekrep Perc
Managing sediment transport in streams is crucial to the surface water resource development strategy and has several implications for flood risk and water management, hydropower use, and balancing river morphology. This paper summarises the movement and ...
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Márcia Lima, Ana Margarida Ferreira and Carlos Coelho
The artificial sand bypassing systems are coastal interventions designed to transfer sediments from areas of accretion to areas where erosion is observed. The goal of these systems is to reduce the littoral drift gradients where sediment transport is int...
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Jennie Gray, Lisa Buckner and Alexis Comber
Geodemographic classifications are useful tools for segmenting populations and have many applications but are not suitable for measuring neighbourhood change over time. There is a need for an approach that uses data of a higher spatiotemporal resolution ...
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Andrea Miano, Annalisa Mele, Irene Della Ragione, Antimo Fiorillo, Marco Di Ludovico and Andrea Prota
The Italian infrastructure network of roads and bridges is one of the most complex in the world due to the territory orography. Italy is strongly interested in seismic and hydrogeological hazards, and, in addition, degradation and obsolescence phenomena ...
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Alan Both, Lucy Gunn, Carl Higgs, Melanie Davern, Afshin Jafari, Claire Boulange and Billie Giles-Corti
Confronted with rapid urbanization, population growth, traffic congestion, and climate change, there is growing interest in creating cities that support active transport modes including walking, cycling, or public transport. The ?30 minute city?, where e...
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Alexandros Petropoulos, Vasilios Kapsimalis, Niki Evelpidou, Anna Karkani and Katerina Giannikopoulou
Myrtos Beach (Cephalonia Island, Ionian Sea, Greece) represents a pocket beach with strong touristic, economic and natural interest. In this research, the morphodynamic behavior of the coastal area (e.g., hydrodynamic and sedimentary state, morphology, o...
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Weihua Li, Chenjuan Jiang, Shuhua Zuo and Jiufa Li
In the past two decades, the dynamic sedimentation process of the Yangtze Estuary has been seriously disturbed by coupled human interventions from the river basin to the estuary, especially the impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam in 2003 and the large-sc...
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