[PDF] Top 20 Environmental geotechnics for peatland management and restoration

... resistivity tomography, ground penetrating radar and multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) techniques are now used extensively for rapid, economical profiling and engineering- property characterization in ... See full document

... Upland peatland management therefore has a direct influence on water quality across ...catchments. Peatland restoration benefits water quality through reducing concentration of suspended ... See full document

... an environmental project which can be easily visited Peatlands exist across the UK close to major urban centres and in remote rural areas The variety of UK peatland sites presents an opportunity for staff ... See full document

... comprehensive environmental management programs need to be developed in order to minimize the associated impacts and improve environmental ...the environmental consequences, developing a ... See full document

... prescribed peatland maps and inunda- tion time series of limited temporal ...Dynamical Peatland Model Based on TOPMODEL (DYPTOP), which predicts the extent of in- undation based on a computationally ... See full document

... While for education, most of the pregnant women were either illiterate or just receiving secondary and primary education. Being poorly educated found to affect the occurrence of anemia in pregnancy compared to being well ... See full document

... as environmental preservation, and risks reduction among workers, in terms health and safety ...assuring environmental quality, by discouraging different approaches that may ultimately bring about shifting ... See full document

... When peatlands have degraded, as a result of drainage and peatfires, the only method of restoring the peatland is by negating the impact of the canalization and focusing on the recovery of the hydrological ... See full document

... the restoration and rehabilitation process would be a key support tool that enables necessary and appropriate adjustment as need ...for environmental monitoring and management are also imperative in ... See full document

... land management practice in upland blanket peats, par- ticularly in the ...However, peatland drainage is now gen- erally considered to have adverse effects on the upland envi- ronment, including increased ... See full document

... A harsh return to drier conditions at CLP at around 1.2– 1.15 ka can be inferred from a sudden reduction in Poaceae pollen percentages and Mn / Fe ratios, which must have severely affected the peatland water ... See full document

... burned peatland soil plots over an 18-month period, with the aim of (i) quantifying thermal dynamics between burned plots of different ages (from < 2 to 15 þ years post burning), and (ii) developing statistical ... See full document

... using this design in any seismic area has been achieved, since its efficiency is ensured under the influence of any intensity and frequency. Thus, the use of seismic isolation and earthquake suppression with proper ... See full document

... households and higher demand for food due to increasing population are the main reasons for this increasing trend of EF in Iran (Rezaei-Moghaddam and Karami, 1998). The population is 75 million and 80 million in 2011 and ... See full document

... adaptive management in this setting because the Draft Report acknowledges that a restored Everglades " ...adaptive management of restoration is dependent on both scientific and normative ... See full document

... Significant attention must also be given to development of new technologies which could enhance a river's ability to restore and maintain its "dynamic equilibrium" (National Research Council 1992) in the target ... See full document

... new restoration techniques are being explored, or applied to a new area, then an experimental approach will provide more information on their ...no restoration as “control” ... See full document

... In order to create environmental awareness among the community, many programs are being conducted by the governments of the world including Malaysia. These programs and activities include the awareness and ... See full document

... ecological restoration. They found that with the restoration of the wetland ecosystem, the amount of soil organic carbon increased ...peat restoration due to the slow turnover of OM and the number of ... See full document

... The monitoring of the ground cover is carried out by the GTA and the Technical Center of the Clean Coal-CTCL, through an agreement signed with the Union of the Industry of Extraction of Coal of the State of Santa ... See full document