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ABSTRACT Deforestation, mining, pollution and the construction of hydroelectric plants are among the main risks for biological communities, ecosystems and indigenous peoples. In the Brazilian Amazon, historically there h...

Soil amendments such as compost are increasingly used in ecological restoration to accelerate vegetation recovery and rebuild soil fertility. However, they may also introduce exotic propagules and alter community traject...

Laterite soil is essential in the construction industry, especially in road and building construction. The practice of abandoning borrow pits after mining laterite soil in the Northern Region of Ghana has resulted in lan...

The persistence of wildlife in the Midlands Black Rhino Conservancy (MBRC), Zimbabwe, highlights both species resilience and landscape value, yet escalating anthropogenic pressures demand urgent conservation action. This...

The study, conducted to analyze the temporal and spatial changes in current land use types in Demre district of Antalya Province and to establish a foundation for future land management studies, was supported by multispe...

Effective from Volume 3, JIWE has transitioned to a triannual publication release effort. Specifically, releases occur each February, June, and October. This change would thus ensure steady and timely publication of rese...

Distribution of ungulates is regulated by natural factors, such as presence of other species, climate, and habitat variability, as well as human activities, including livestock grazing and mining. Understanding the spati...

Given the limitations of different types of remote sensing images, automated land-cover classifications of the Amazon várzea may yield poor accuracy indexes. One way to improve accuracy is through the combination of ima...

This article aims to deconstruct the intricate interaction between humanity and Nature, focusing on contemporary issues related to climate change within the frameworks of rewilding and dewilding. The analysis delves into...

In recent years, the distributed fiber optic sensing technology has become a new tool in the research area of geotechnical tests and measurements and played an increasingly important role in deformation monitoring of geo...

Extensive areas of the northern mixed grass prairies of North America require restoration and reclamation as they have been extensively disturbed by agricultural, mining and oil and gas related activities. Amending seedb...

This article first presents the theoretical and empirical foundations of “Station 2” of a didactic setting in which learners deal with sourcing operations and apply them to a text corpus on a topic created for this d...

Gold mining plays a central role in Ghana’s national economy. However, conventional exploration approaches, particularly within artisanal and small‑scale mining sectors, often rely on trial‑and‑error methods ...