In the two decades since the 1992 Rio Conference, land-use planning (LUP) has become recognized as a key instrument in putting discourses on sustainable development into practice. In Lao PDR, despite the implementation problems, it is still seen as a lever for securing land tenure, rationalizing extension services provision, and more recently, for implementing ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestat...

soil contamination significantly reduces environmental quality and affects human health. to investigate and assess the effects of land use on the concentrations of some heavy metals in surface soils of golestan province, 227 soil samples (0-60 cm) were collected from three types of land uses including agricultural lands, natural, and industrial areas. the total metals and metalloids (cr, se, as...

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Groundwater age, and its influence on contemporary water chemistry, needs to be accurately described to quantify the temporally varying impacts of land use on water quality. The time lags between solute inputs at the land surface and impacts on stream chemistry can be an important factor for managing land use in regional watersheds. Our approach uses a modified groundwater flow code to simulate...

Oilfield Review Summer 2010: 22, no. 2. Copyright © 2010 Schlumberger. For help in preparation of this article, thanks to Abdulmohsin Al-Dulaijan, South Rub Al-Khali Co. Ltd, South Rub Al-Khali, Saudi Arabia; Jarrah Al-Genai, Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait City, Kuwait; Danny Burns, Beach Petroleum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Daniele Colombo, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Dennis C...