The frequency of extreme weather events has accelerated, an apparent outcome of progressive climate change. Excess water is a significant consequence of these events and is now the leading cause of insurance claims for infrastructure and property damage. Governments recognize that plans for growth must reflect communities needs, strengths and opportunities while balancing the cumulative effects...

functions in landscape design include values in design and management process to satisfy moral and environmental needs that current attitudes see that as open space design by natural and man-made elements, while the basic intellectual layers related to human as the principles of environmental design have been forgotten. human urban knowledge seeks to meet in health, biological, psychological, s...

Abstract The manuscript focuses on the subject of environmental solutions for maritime ships. With increasing volume cargo transported by sea, it is crucial to minimise its impact. International Maritime Organization (IMO) has introduced new regulations in recent years limit damage. IMO’s initial strategy reducing GHG emissions from ships aims reduce vessels 50% 2050 and CO 2 70% compared 2008 ...

The Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (CEWRC-IWR) is part of the Water Resources Support Center in Alexandria, VA. It was created in 1969 to analyze and anticipate changing water resources management conditions, and to develop planning methods and analytical tools to address economic, social, institutional and environmental needs in water resources planning and policy. Since its ...

Over time, the economic and social conditions determined expansion contraction processes of domestic space (from cave to castle, from castle studio flat) with important consequences on people’s life quality. This evolution stimulated development cultural debates design experiments theme flexibility. In contemporary scenario, flexibility has a big value because it represents an strategy meet nee...