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Cuong Ngoc Nguyen, Hing-Wah Chau and Nitin Muttil
Green roofs (GRs) have been researched for decades, yet their implementation remains constrained due to several reasons, including their limited appeal to policymakers and the public. Biochar, a carbon-rich material, has been recently introduced as an am...
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Hao Wu, Xuewen Lei, Xiang Chen, Jianhua Shen, Xinzhi Wang and Tiantian Ma
The reclamation coral sand (CS) layer is the survival environment for island reef vegetation in the South China Sea. The root system within the CS bed draws water necessary for vegetation growth, implying that the water-retention capacity of CS plays a p...
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Damian Absalon, Magdalena Matysik and Lukasz Pieron
The proper characteristics of the catchment area of dammed reservoirs is of great importance when managing their capacity in the context of enabling proper functioning, including retention of the planned amount of water and counteracting the effects of d...
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Meng Li, Zhen Wang, Huanwen Meng, Baozhu Dong, Xile Deng and Hongyou Zhou
Matrine is an efficient, low-toxicity, and environmentally friendly botanical pesticide; however, it is mainly applied as a soluble concentrate (SL) with a limited utilization rate that is unsuitable for ultra-low-volume spraying and unmanned aerial vehi...
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Vincent Oriez, Nga Thi-Thanh Pham, Jérôme Peydecastaing, Philippe Behra and Pierre-Yves Pontalier
Sugarcane bagasse (SCB), a by-product of the sugar industry, is composed mainly of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin, and can be used to replace petrochemical polymers in various applications. In this work, SCB was treated under mild alkaline conditi...
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Behrouz Pirouz, Stefania Anna Palermo, Gianfranco Becciu, Umberto Sanfilippo, Hana Javadi Nejad, Patrizia Piro and Michele Turco
Climate change is a significant problem that many countries are currently facing, and green roofs (GRs) are one of the suitable choices to confront it and decrease its impacts. The advantages of GRs are numerous, such as stormwater management, thermal ne...
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Nils Siering and Helmut Grüning
Stormwater tree pits with storage elements enable the irrigation of urban trees and can potentially act as decentralized rainwater retention basins. This paper mainly focuses on analyzing this potential. Field tests were conducted to investigate the irri...
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Xian Ma, Yiru Bai, Xu Liu and Youqi Wang
The farmland in Yinchuan is composed of sierozem soil, which is characterized by high sand content and low organic matter content, resulting in poor water-holding capacity and weak soil structure. Humic acid is a natural organic polymer soil amendment. I...
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Harri Koivusalo, Maria Dubovik, Laura Wendling, Eero Assmuth, Nora Sillanpää and Teemu Kokkonen
Nature-based solutions and similar natural water retention measures to manage urban runoff are often implemented by cities in order to reduce runoff peaks, catch pollutants, and improve sustainability. However, the performance of these stormwater managem...
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Li Wang, Baobao Li, Hongyu Bai, Hong Ding, Na Xu, Chaofan Yin, Jingjing Xiong, Zhiwei Yang, Xianfa Rao and Binbin Dong
The pyrolytic carbon of polymer adsorbent resin (SAP) is used as a waste carbon source, which can be used as a porous carbon network via pyrolysis to remove surface sodium carbonate and other substances. In this paper, a ZnFe2O4/nitrogen-doped porous car...
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