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Flood Protection Performance Assessment: Nerang Catchment

Examines the Nerang River floodplain catchment in Gold Coast, Australia using reliability, resiliency, vulnerability, and hydraulic simulation models for climate adaptation.

Environment

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Global environmental challenges and internet communication at the century's end

As the last century ended, the world continued at a faster and faster pace with changes occurring rapidly and regularly. It was just an indication of what would be happening in the next decades.

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The scientific debate over global warming causes and effects

The issue of global warming, and more generally the issue of global atmospheric change, is one of the most hotly debated environmental issue in today's society.

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Global warming's environmental, economic, and health impacts on Spain

Being on the forefront of global warming, Al Gore once said, "We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences." Global warming is the increase in the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and bodies of water.

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Technological evolution from the nineteenth century to the digital age

The 19th century witnessed major upheavals in science and technology ushering a gamut of changes and widespread ripple effect on the society.

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The global economy's effects on food security and food bank usage in Canada

There has been some exploration in the academic literature of the links between the changes in the global economy and food security. There have also been a couple of attempts to examine the linkages between the global issue of food security and the individual issue of food bank usage.

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863 words

Parsimony, molecular clocks, and reproductive isolation in evolutionary biology

In evolutionary biology, parsimony is similar to the Ockham's razor hypothesis, or that nature will use the simplest method possible to effect change over time.

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Global warming claims: evaluating contradictory evidence and expert disagreement

Globe is Warming. Or is it? Policy makers and climate scientists have for the last couple of years maintained that based on available evidence, our planet is warming.

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Human rights and human security implementation challenges and issues

Human right is an upcoming element of understanding human behavioral patterns and vulnerabilities about change and challenges. Human security conversely is an upcoming element of understanding universal vulnerabilities concerning change and challenges.

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Effects of artificial warming on Dryas integrifolia growth in Arctic regions

This paper examines the effects of arti-cially warmed environment using open-top chambers (OTCs). It investigates the effect of temperature changes on the growth of Dryas integrifolia.

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