Current conservation mitigation plans often fail to ensure full in-kind habitat replacement for endangered species, which suggests the need for improved methods for calculating mitigation credits. A simple, yet biologically meaningful method for calculating mitigation credits would be to let the number of mitigation credits assigned to a parcel of land scale with the reproductive value of the i...

It is likely that climate change communications and media coverage will increasingly stress the importance of adaptation, yet little is known about whether or how this may affect attitudes towards mitigation. Despite concerns that communicating adaptation could undermine public support for mitigation, previous research has found it can have the opposite effect by increasing risk salience. It is...

In the United States, stream restoration is an increasing part of environmental and land management programs, particularly under the auspices of compensatory mitigation regulations. Markets and regulations surrounding stream mitigation are beginning to mirror those of the well-established wetland mitigation industry. Recent studies have shown that wetland mitigation programs commonly shift wetl...

Road traffic kills hundreds of millions of animals every year, posing a critical threat to the populations of many species. To address this problem there are more than forty types of road mitigation measures available that aim to reduce wildlife mortality on roads (road-kill). For road planners, deciding on what mitigation method to use has been problematic because there is little good informat...

The mitigation of first wall thermal and mechanical loads and damage from runaway electrons during disruptions are critical for successful long term operation of ITER. Disruption mitigation tools based on shattered pellet injection are being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that can be employed on ITER to provide the necessary mitigation of thermal and mechanical loads from disruption...

In Northern and Central Europe, short-rotation coppices (SRC) have become a profitable agricultural production alternative, particularly for marginal fields with suitable groundwater levels. The replacement of fossil fuels by the wood chips produced in SRC contributes to the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Due to heterogeneous regional production conditions, the impacts on economy, produ...

AC interference from high voltage power lines can constitute an electric shock hazard and a threat to equipment integrity during both normal operation conditions and fault conditions. Simplified analysis methods can lead to millions of dollars in excess expenses due directly to overdesign or resulting from the consequences of underdesign. This paper presents a costeffective AC interference miti...

different methods exists for jamming mitigation and we should choose a method based an the jammer type and other parameters. one of the jammers is narrow band fm jammer and we use subspace projection techniques for the suppression of this type of jammer. in subspace projection technique, we estimate the if of signals and construct the subspace vector that is orthogonal to jammer vector by incre...

This paper analyzes the role of global land-use in determining potential greenhouse gas mitigation by land-based activities in agriculture and forestry. Land-based activities are responsible for over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet the economics of land-use decisions have not been explicitly modeled in global mitigation studies. In this paper, we develop a new, general equilibri...

During 1997 and 1998, members of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Radon Team installed 47 single-suction-point active soil depressurization (ASD) systems in 47 multiplex housing units located in 24 buildings in Guam. Subslab vacuum measurements performed within adjacent housing units found sufficient field extension to provide potential radon reduction within 39 additional units. Follow...