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Using an Inventory of Unstable Slopes to Prioritize Probabilistic Rockfall Modeling and Acid-Base Accounting in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 在大烟山国家公园使用不稳定斜坡清单优先考虑概率岩崩模型和酸碱核算

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.2113/eeg-d-22-00063

Thomas O'Shea, Samantha Farmer, Arpita Nandi, Eric Bilderback, Ingrid Luffman, Andrew Joyner

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Environmental impactassessment case study of the construction of a main gaspipeline, section Sveti Nikole-veles Sveti Nikole-veles段主要天然气管道建设的环境影响评价案例研究

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.7

Elena Nikolovska, Vesna Milanovikj, Ivica Andov, Bojana Veljanoska, Daliborka Todorovska-Janevska, Ružica Cacanoska, Martina Blinkova Donchevska, Suzana Kasovska Georgieva, Tanja Dimitrova Filkoska

{"title":"Environmental impact\u0000assessment case study of the construction of a main gas\u0000pipeline, section Sveti Nikole-veles","authors":"Elena Nikolovska, Vesna Milanovikj, Ivica Andov, Bojana Veljanoska, Daliborka Todorovska-Janevska, Ružica Cacanoska, Martina Blinkova Donchevska, Suzana Kasovska Georgieva, Tanja Dimitrova Filkoska","doi":"10.37023/ee.9.1-2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37023/ee.9.1-2.7","url":null,"abstract":"The Republic of North Macedonia undertakes intensive activities aimed at replacing fuels - fossil fuels with renewable energy sources and natural gas, to monitor the modern trends of exit from the energy crisis and environmental protection. Under the efforts of the National Gasification System in the country, i.e. the development of the existing gas infrastructure, the project for construction of the gas pipeline section Sveti Nikole – Veles was developed. The route of the gas pipeline starts east of the city of Sveti Nikole and ends south of the city of Veles with characteristics: DN 200, Ø 8” and length of 27.67 km. The Environmental Impact Assessment process is intended to serve as a primary input for the decision-making process by Macedonian authorities and the IFI in charge (EBRD in this case), which have to approve the Project before its implementation. The decision-making process includes the preparation of all documentation in accordance with the EBRD’s Performance Requirement (PR), The National Legislation, and Good International Practice (GIP). This EIA study identifies the potential negative impacts on the media in the environment from the relevant stages of the project i.e. pre-construction, construction, operations, and decommissioning and reinstatement, and proposes measures for their reduction or mitigation, i.e. improvement of the environment in the Environmental and Social Management Plan.","PeriodicalId":50518,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Engineering Geoscience","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85274851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of climate policyand climate change on pm2.5 emission from residential wood combustion 气候政策和气候变化对住宅木材燃烧pm2.5排放的影响

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.6

M. Poljanac, Elvira Horvatić Viduka

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Stability analysis of an oldearth Samarkand Dam in Kazakhstan under rapid drawdown conditions 哈萨克斯坦古老撒马尔罕大坝快速落水条件下的稳定性分析

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.2

A. Zhussupbekov, T. Mkilima

{"title":"Stability analysis of an old\u0000earth Samarkand Dam in Kazakhstan under rapid drawdown conditions","authors":"A. Zhussupbekov, T. Mkilima","doi":"10.37023/ee.9.1-2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37023/ee.9.1-2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Despite being potential historical sites, old embankment dams are subjected to many stability challenges due to many factors, including a lack of sufficient stability assessment tools by the time the dam was built and changes in embankment material properties induced by natural and human activities. Therefore, with the current advancement in technology is of great importance to investigate the state of old embankment dams under different potential loading conditions. The stability challenges become of more significant concern when the embankment is subjected to a rapid drawdown loading scenario. In this study, the Samarkand dam located in Karaganda province in Kazakhstan which was put into operation in 1941 is investigated in terms of seepage and slope stability with the help of numerical modelling. Both steady and transient (rapid drawdown) flow conditions are taken into consideration. e finite element method-based modelling is achieved using SEEP/W and SLOPE/W of the GeoStudio software. From the analysis results, it was observed that the old dam can be subjected to a potential failure under rapid drawdown conditions as the minimum factor of safety values were decreasing with the increase in the drawdown rates. For instance, the minimum factor of safety from the instantaneous drawdown rate was equivalent to 32.85% less than the factor of safety retrieved from the long-term steady-state conditions. Also, from Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), a p-value of 9.97× 10-29 was obtained after subjecting the factor of safety values from instantaneous, 5 days, 10 days, and 1 m per day drawdown rates to ANOVA, indicating that the factor of safety differences among the analyzed drawdown rates were statistically significant.","PeriodicalId":50518,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Engineering Geoscience","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82275648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An example ofthe protection of a deep excavation in an urban environment 一个在城市环境中保护深基坑的例子

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.9

Filip Dodigović, Krešimir Agnezović, K. Ivandić, Stjepan Strelec

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Modern technologies andmethods of data collection in the function of making better traffic analysis offorensic traffic experts 现代数据采集技术和方法的功能使交通分析更有利于交通专家的取证

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.1

R. Kamnik, Darja Topolšek, Stanko Laković

{"title":"Modern technologies and\u0000methods of data collection in the function of making better traffic analysis of\u0000forensic traffic experts","authors":"R. Kamnik, Darja Topolšek, Stanko Laković","doi":"10.37023/ee.9.1-2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37023/ee.9.1-2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Even though the European roads are among the safest in the world, the number of road accidents is still a cause for concern. To reduce their number and consequences, many studies are being conducted, including knowledge of the factors that influence the occurrence of accidents. Forensic traffic experts are also part of the treatment of traffic accidents, and they often must base their conclusions on proven incomplete studies of data collected by police officers. In some cases, traffic accident data are still collected in classical ways and with classical measuring equipment. This is often a source of error. This paper defines these errors and offers solutions that are shown primarily through data capture using 3D scanners and photogrammetry. In this way, we can perfectly recreate the situation in the event of a traffic accident through 3D models, thus eliminating many shortcomings of police drawings and records. The article also proposes a central database of traffic accidents as an additional solution to gain a deeper insight into the causes and consequences of traffic accidents.","PeriodicalId":50518,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Engineering Geoscience","volume":"235 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73511824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A strategic evaluationframework to measure and guide efforts to protect biodiversity 一个衡量和指导生物多样性保护工作的战略评估框架

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.8

Paul Rouveyrol, M. Leroy, I. Witte

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Impact of global warming onaverage annual air temperature in Varaždin 全球变暖对Varaždin年平均气温的影响

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.10

Marija Zorko, I. Kovač, Sanja Kovač, D. Stanko, K. Pandžić

{"title":"Impact of global warming on\u0000average annual air temperature in Varaždin","authors":"Marija Zorko, I. Kovač, Sanja Kovač, D. Stanko, K. Pandžić","doi":"10.37023/ee.9.1-2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37023/ee.9.1-2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change implies a statistically significant change in the long-term mean state or characteristics of the variability of climate elements. It can be caused by natural and/or anthropogenic factors. Recent global warming is often cited as an example of human-induced climate change. Global warming refers to the increasing trend of the average global surface temperature of the Earth, defined as the global average of the mean annual surface temperature of the ocean, usually to a depth of 30-100 cm, and the mean annual surface temperature of the air above the land at a height of 1-2 m above the ground. In 1988, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) established the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assesses the state of the climate and the risk of climate change caused by human activities.To project climate change, it is necessary to determine the future emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. According to the IPCC, with appropriate scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions, an increase in the average global surface temperature of 1.5 °C to 4 °C is predicted by the end of the 21st century. The purpose of this paper is to show the relationship between the trend and variability of the global average of the mean annual surface temperature on Earth and the trend of the mean annual air surface temperature in Varaždin for the period 1949-2021. The results show significant correlations among them because Varaždin is located in an big area of surface air temperature anomalies which has a significant contribution to a global average anomalies in several last decades.","PeriodicalId":50518,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Engineering Geoscience","volume":"284 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72455335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Climate change, disaster riskreduction and resilience 气候变化、减少灾害风险和复原力

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.5

D. Trut, J. Kovačević

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The technique forextrapolation of rock mass initial parameters during the construction of thetunnel 隧道施工中岩体初始参数的外推技术

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Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.37023/ee.9.1-2.3

N. Marinković, M. Jovanovski, Elefterija Zlatanović, Lazar Zivkovic

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