Essays about: "water balance"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 307 essays containing the words water balance.

  1. 16. Fighting for Sustainability: A Case Study about Tenerife's Activism Movement

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Felicitas Brodtrager; [2023]
    Keywords : Sustainable destination development; activism; tourism impacts; stakeholder involvement; sustainability; alternative tourism model; system thinking; doughnut economics;

    Abstract : This research explores the perspectives of the opinion leaders of the activism movement in Tenerife on tourism on the island and the solutions proposed by these stakeholders to the current sustainability problems related to tourism. These issues include tourist's misbehavior in natural protected areas, waste, submarine emissions of residual water sewage, water shortage, gentrification, overtourism, overpopulation, 14,6% of unemployment in 2022, decline of agricultural land, high population density, etc. READ MORE

  3. 17. Hydro-political Security Complexes and the Role of International Organizations in Bringing Cooperation or Conflict to Shared Transboundary Rivers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Noha Yasser; [2023]
    Keywords : Keywords: Transboundary Water Conflict; Transboundary Water Cooperation; Nile River Basin; Indus River Basin; Egypt; Ethiopia; India; Pakistan; World Bank; International organizations.  ;

    Abstract : Transboundary water treaties are established to prevent disputes over shared rivers between states. Nevertheless, empirical studies indicate that international organizations manage to bring cooperation between states in some cases and fail in others. READ MORE

  4. 18. Dagvatten och dess potentialer : en studie om dagvattenanläggningar med rekreativa värden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : My Malmberg; [2023]
    Keywords : hållbar dagvattenhantering; vatten och landskapsarkitektur; rekreation; upplevelsevärden; kulturella ekosystemtjänster; landskap och miljöpsykologi; klimatförändringar; skyfall;

    Abstract : I dagens samhälle är klimatförändringar ett faktum och det innebär ett varmare klimat och ökad nederbörd. Samtidigt går utvecklingen i den urbana miljön mot ökande andel hårdgjorda ytor. Tillsammans för detta med sig mer dagvatten att hantera samt sämre möjligheter för vattnet att infiltrera i marken. READ MORE

  5. 19. Assessing the relation between temperature buffering, soil moisture, and canopy cover in a Swedish coniferous forest

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

    Author : Mark Van der Keijl; [2023]
    Keywords : Temperature buffering; forest microclimate; soil moisture; canopy cover; forest management; Sweden;

    Abstract : Forests buffer temperature extremes through processes such as canopy shading, wind speed reduction, and evapotranspiration. As a result, microclimates are formed within forests whose climatic conditions are distinctly different from the surrounding macroclimate. READ MORE

  6. 20. Evaluating the impact of agriculture on albedo using Sentinel-2 data in southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Victor Andréasson; [2023]
    Keywords : Physical geography and ecosystem science; Remote sensing; Sentinel-2; Albedo; Agriculture; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The climate impact of food production plays a big part in the anthropogenic climate impact. Mitigation strategies from this sector are hence of great importance. One area which mainly has been used to calculate climate impact is albedo, the overall reflectance of incoming radiation in all directions. READ MORE