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Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit

… September 23 and October 5, 2009. Surface Conditions and Drainage Site A is approximately 65.2 m long by 65 m wide. … workshop discharges directly into the lagoon, and an open drainage system, which traverses the site, also discharges … into the lagoon (see Figure N1.5). The distance from the drainage – an open channel – to the wall at the northern side …
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Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific

… governments, also created ‘new land’ by establishing large drainage schemes on coastal, largely-mangrove lands, which … reclaiming mangrove land for sugarcane plantations. Large drainage canals were constructed to encourage drainage of low-lying areas. These coastal flat plains today …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… and mangrove revivals, strengthened zoning laws, increased drainage capacity and wind specific building codes. For … Salt marshes are lands characterized by particular drainage patterns because of different soil types and … flushing since minor alterations of the shape and the drainage of salt marshes can disrupt the equilibrium and the …
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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… cleanup into waterways and wetlands created pollution and drainage problems that hampered long-term recovery; • Several …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… River Forestry Consortium–– have been working in the drainage basin of the Uruguay River, which, together with the … property from flooding and drought in the River Uruguay drainage basin. Source: Fundación Hábitat & Desarrollo (2016) …
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