13 résultats : environmental health

Attention : l'accès aux ressources peut être restreint, soit pour des raisons juridiques, soit par la volonté de l'auteur.
13 résultats
page 1 sur 2
résultats 1 à 10
Canal-U
Description : In Recife (Brazil), the non-existence of sanitation and the lack of tap water make it easy for rats, scorpions and tiger mosquitos to spread, and they run rampant throughout the whole city. With his colleagues of the Sanitary District VI, Rivanildo is doing his utmost to curb their proliferation. Armed ...
Mots clés : public health, town, environmental health workers, environmental health, vermin, scorpio, biocides, chemical risks, , work,, access to water, Sanitation, Brazil, environment, pests and diseases, Urban, termites, cafards, rats, Recife, mosquitos
Date : 31-07-2016
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. © Armelle Jacquemot
Canal-U
Description : The science and practical applications of environmental flows (e-flows) have advanced rapidly since the early 1980s. E-flows serve as a means to protect the flow regimes and ecosystems of undeveloped rivers, and conversely, as a means to restore the flow regimes and ecological health of regulated ...
Mots clés : river, society, environmental health
Date : 20-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs.
Canal-U
Description : Rivers give rhythm to all life in their catchments. Floods and droughts trigger both, etho-physiological adaptations by biota, resulting in biodiversity, and one species, H. sapiens, resulting in cultural diversity. The River Culture Concept (2016) takes an attempt to re-establish harmony between ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 20-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs.
Canal-U
Description : Public participation is an effective way to resolve the tensions between contested objectives, while maintaining ecological integrity. New Zealand is one of the few countries that takes a collaborative approach to environmental management, mandating that management plans for catchments are co-created ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 20-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs.
Canal-U
Description : Megafauna species play important ecological roles. Owing to their intrinsic characteristics such as large habitat requirements, long lifespan, and late maturity they are particularly susceptible to extinction. Freshwater megafauna species, i.e. freshwater animals that can reach a body mass of 30 ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 20-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. LE STUDIUM
Canal-U
Description : The Mara River starts its journey in the Mau forest in Kenya, flowing through diverse waterscapes and famous savannahs into Tanzania, where it reaches the Mara wetland system before spilling into Lake Victoria. The landscapes surrounding the Mara River are shaped by the seasonality of its flows. ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 20-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. LE STUDIUM
Canal-U
Description : Globally, the status of rivers in law is changing rapidly, as rivers themselves are beginning to receive legal rights. This growing transnational movement accelerated in 2017 with the recognition of rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India as legal persons. In Aotearoa New Zealand, this ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 21-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. LE STUDIUM
Canal-U
Description : Several of the key challenges to implementing environmental flows are related to the social and political context of environmental flows projects. These include community acceptance and buy in, political will and legislation, as well as effective stakeholder engagement.  Despite this, in many co ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 21-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. LE STUDIUM
Canal-U
Description : The intergovernmental Ramsar Convention on Wetlands celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.  Its global treaty provisions and conservation policy frameworks have always been based on the best available ecological and hydrological science.  Over the years, however, there has been a growing app ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 21-01-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. LE STUDIUM
Canal-U
Description : In north-western Canada, glacial retreat left behind large lakes that led to the development of three massive freshwater deltas (Peace-Athabasca, Slave and Saskatchewan).  The productivity of these delta floodplains drew both wildlife and humans, leading to strong cultural connections to the landscape ...
Mots clés : river, environmental health
Date : 21-02-2021
Droits : Droits réservés à l'éditeur et aux auteurs. LE STUDIUM