This paper explores the social and spatial implications of drinking water infrastructures in rural southern Bihar. Hardiya, a multi-caste multi-religion village, has complex arrangement. village consists original households, households resettled due to dam construction, excessive fluoride contamination groundwater. Excessive produces incidences fluorosis among historically, have low access clea...

This research aimed to find out the determining factors for ISO 14001 EMS implementation among SMEs in Malaysia from the Resource based view. A cross-sectional approach using survey was conducted. A research model been proposed which comprises of ISO 14001 EMS implementation as the criterion variable while physical capital resources (i.e. environmental performance tracking and organizational in...

Concern for environmental issues has become a reality in all sectors of society, mainly among researchers and professionals who work directly with environmental status. In this context, several studies have been undertaken on sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon, generating a large amount of data and information. Environmental area characterization involves the knowledge about their ...

Asia has been experiencing very high population growth and urbanization as well as migration as discussed in previous section. Asian cities will witness a large population increase, which will have important implications for a variety of urban environmental issues, such as water supply and sanitation, waste and wastewater generation, urban infrastructures as well as mobility. This section prese...

Human infrastructures can modify ecosystems, thereby affecting the occurrence and spatial distribution of organisms, as well as ecosystem functionality. Sustainable development requires the ability to predict responses of species to anthropogenic pressures. We investigated the large scale, long term effect of important human alterations of benthic habitats with an integrated approach combining ...

Based on various experiences in developing Geodata Infrastructures (GDI) for scientific applications, this article proposes the concept of a Scientific GDI that can be used by scientists in environmental and earth sciences to share and disseminate their research results and related analysis methods. Scientific GDI is understood as an approach to tackle the science case in Digital Earth and to f...

The term green infrastructure addresses the spatial structure of anthropogenic, seminatural and natural areas, as well as other environmental features which enable society to benefit from ecosystems’ multiple services. Focusing on two green infrastructures, anthropogenic wet meadows and natural forest successions, this thesis applies a macroecological approach based on comparisons of multiple l...