The biomass for energy purposes, coming from forestry and timber industry for energy, can provide various environmental and socio-economic benefits. Among all renewable energy sources, forest biomass represents both an important alternative source to fossil fuels and an opportunity for the socio-economic development of various marginal mountain areas in Calabria. This survey aims at estimating ...

Large tracts of abandoned urban land, resulting from the deindustrialization of metropolitan areas, are generating a renewed interest among city planners and community organizations envisioning the productive use of this land not only to produce fresh food but to effectively manage stormwater and mitigate the impact of urban heat islands. Healthy and productive soils are paramount to meet these...

This research examines changes in word retrieval and naming during a developmental period in which there is a substantial increase in productive vocabulary. That increase generally occurs when children have between 50 to 150 words in productive vocabulary. We examined children's naming errors in two studies for what these errors could tell us about the emerging lexicon. The method we used for e...

Most mountain regions in the western United States are covered by forests, which are for the most part recovering from historical harvesting and have been experiencing active fire suppression over approximately the past 100 years (Tilman and others 2000). Whereas many western landscapes are currently perceived as pristine natural systems, the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, and Cascades were essentiall...

One of the most productive and supportive ecosystems, mangroves, have faced a sharp decline 1.04 million hectares globally, mostly due to population pressure environmental changes related recent effects global warming climate change. The loss area, species migration, altered ecological services etc. are among discussed concerns, as evident from volumes literatures. However, these issues oversha...

agricultural land conversion (alc) has been introduced as one of the most important factorsaffecting ecosystem. this type of conversion has led to several challenges in agricultural development andhuman life. monitoring alc plays a crucial role when dealing with such challenges. the main objective of thisstudywas to monitor the trend ofalc in theqazvin province located in northwest iran from 19...

Agricultural degradation areas are increasing worldwide. From them, 56% due to water erosion, 28% wind 12% soil nutrient depletion, salinization, pollution processes, and 4% densification, swamping, subsidence processes. As a result of such negative processes the existence shortage problem in 80 countries world, 7 million hectares arable land withdrawn from agricultural use every year, food sec...