An experimental approach to road mitigation that maximizes inferential power is essential to ensure that mitigation is both ecologically-effective and cost-effective. Here, we set out the need for and standards of using an experimental approach to road mitigation, in order to improve knowledge of the influence of mitigation measures on wildlife populations. We point out two key areas that need ...

Systems that can track and intelligently adapt to changes in users’ cognitive capacities may help to improve human performance. The experiment reported here was designed to assess the benefit of placing neuro-physiological sensors on users to provide data about their cognitive states that can drive performance mitigations. A test group of 16 participants performed a primary task while monitorin...

Adaptation to climate change and mitigation of climate change are policy substitutes, as both reduce the impacts of climate change. Adaptation and mitigation should therefore be analysed together, as they indeed are, albeit in a rudimentary way, in cost-benefit analyses of emission abatement. However, adaptation and mitigation are done by different people operating at different spatial and temp...

Encouraging individuals to take action is important for the overall success of climate change mitigation. Campaigns promoting climate change mitigation could address particular groups of the population on the basis of what kind of mitigation actions the group is already taking. To increase the knowledge of such groups performing similar mitigation actions we conducted a population-based cross-s...

Background: Ramsar, a northern city in Iran, lies on the coast of the Caspian Sea. This city has areas with some of the highest levels of natural radiation measured to date. The radon concentration in some areas of Ramsar is up to 3700 Bq m–3. On the other hand, due to high level of humidity, damp-proof barriers should be used in construction of new buildings in radon prone areas of this cit...

Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in a post Kyoto world industrialized countries have to engage in greenhouse gas abatement, and to support developing countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework of a non-cooperative Nash game we analyze, whether funding adaptation is incentive compatible in the s...

Recent scientific advances have introduced the possibility of engineering the climate system to lower ambient temperatures without lowering greenhouse gas concentrations. This possibility has created an intense debate given the ethical, moral and scientific questions it raises. This paper examines the economic issues introduced when geoengineering becomes available in a standard two-period two-...

More than 100 countries pledged to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Yet technical information about how much mitigation is needed in the sector vs. how much is feasible remains poor. We identify a preliminary global target for reducing emissions from agriculture of ~1 GtCO2 e yr-1 by 2030...

A Practical GIS Method for Identifying Potential Wetland Mitigation Sites Track: Ecology, Archaeology, and Conservation Author(s): Mark Tucker Site selection plays a fundamental role in establishing a viable wetland mitigation site. A simple GIS-based approach to identifying potential mitigation sites is outlined. Ecological and logistical selection criteria were developed and assessed in ripar...

Time of arrival (TOA) based geolocation schemes for indoor multi-hop environment are investigated and compared to some of conventional geolocation schemes such as least squares (LS) or residual weighting (RWGH). The multi-hop ranging involves positive multi-hop noise as well as non-line of sight (NLOS) and Gaussian measurement noise, so that it is more prone to ranging error than one-hop range....