ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Abstract Increasing public awareness on the limited nature of the environment to absorb wastes generated by various human activities has led to the need to implement sustainable development techniques in real world exploitation practices. Maxus Southeast Sumatra, Inc. has a corporate mandate to practice ...
Abstract The increasing incidence of oil spills in the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea, has resulted in growing concern about Malaysia's capability to respond to oil spills in its waters. This concern is compounded by the ever growing number of oil tankers plying the Straits of Malacca ...
Abstract Geothermal energy, heat energy stored in the earth, is exploited for the generation of environmentally clean, reliable electric power and for direct heat applications such as space and water heating, aquaculture and agricultural operations, enhanced oil recovery, mining, and industrial processing. ...
Abstract Historically, Exploration and Production (E&P) operators' environmental philosophy was a consequence of environmental damages, actual and perceived, caused by hydrocarbon spills. Pertamina/Maxus Southeast Sumatra, Inc. (Maxus), the largest offshore E and P operator in Indonesia has adopted ...
Abstract Protecting people and the environment is an essential design and operational criteria for the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project to minimise the physical, social and economic impacts on the local people and their environment in Papua New Guinea. This paper describes how Kutubu was implemented, ...
Abstract New and evolving environmental laws and regulations impose substantial costs and greater potential liabilities on industry. These standards on emissions and assessments of impacts place increasing importance on scientifically based environmental studies. Moreover, technological improvements ...
Abstract Reductions in the environmental impact of exploration seismic can he achieved through improved planning from the scouting stage to post abandonment, environmental screening, EIA's geared to direct implementation of prevention and control measures, specifications in contracts and verification ...
Kip, S.H., Sarawak Shell Bhd/Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. (Malaysia) Introduction Oil spill contingency planning is an essential feature required in present day activities involving oil and gas exploration, production and transportation. A well thought out Contingency Plan will not only eliminate ...
Abstract The authors of this paper prepared a series of analyses of the supplemental supply sources or natural gas. This study was developed for the use of the Gas Supply Committee of the American Gas Association. The authors operating as a task force prepared a series of individual studies which were ...
Ocean acidification represents a threat to marine species worldwide, and forecasting the ecological impacts of acidification is a high priority for science, management, and policy. As research on the topic expands at an exponential rate, a comprehensive understanding of the variability in organisms' ...
Species’ ecology and evolution can have strong effects on communities. Both may change concurrently when species colonize a new ecosystem. We know little, however, about the combined effects of ecological and evolutionary change on community structure. We simultaneously examined the effects of top-predator ...
Freshwater (FW) fishes actively absorb salt from their environment to tolerate low salinities. We previously reported that vacuolar-type H+-ATPase/mitochondrion-rich cells (H-MRCs) on the skin epithelium of zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio) are primary sites for Na+ uptake. In this study, in an attempt ...
There will be winners and losers as climate change alters the habitats of polar organisms. For an Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colony on Beaufort Island (Beaufort), part of a cluster of colonies in the southern Ross Sea, we report a recent population increase in response to increased nesting ...
The reefs surrounding the Gilbert Islands (Republic of Kiribati, Central Pacific), like many throughout the world, have undergone a period of rapid and intensive environmental perturbation over the past 100 years. A byproduct of this perturbation has been a reduction of the number of shark species present ...
The population of flesh-footed shearwaters (Puffinus carneipes) breeding on Lord Howe Island was shown to be declining from the 1970's to the early 2000's. This was attributed to destruction of breeding habitat and fisheries mortality in the Australian Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery. Recent evidence ...
Disaster recovery after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 led to a number of challenges and raised issues concerning land rights and housing reconstruction in the affected countries. This paper discusses the resistance to relocation of fishing communities in Chennai, India. Qualitative research methods ...
Marine reserves are an effective tool for protecting biodiversity locally, with potential economic benefits including enhancement of local fisheries, increased tourism, and maintenance of ecosystem services. However, fishing communities often fear short-term income losses associated with closures, and ...
Background Early evolutionary theories of aging predict that populations which experience low extrinsic mortality evolve a retarded onset of senescence. Experimental support for this theory in vertebrates is scarce, in part for the difficulty of quantifying extrinsic mortality and its condition- and ...
Through the history of ecology, fluctuations of populations have been a dominating topic, and endogenous causes of fluctuations and oscillations have been recognized and studied for more than 80 years. Here we analyzed an historical dataset, covering more than 130 years, of European lobster (Homarus ...
Dietary supplement use may modify the risk of periodontal disease but effects on wound healing after periodontal procedures are less clear. This study characterized dietary supplement use by male and female patients (n = 376) attending a periodontal clinic—information that is essential for evidence-based ...