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Life cycle environmental assessment of retaining walls in unsaturated soils

Retaining structures above groundwater level support soils that are usually in a state of partial saturation and subject to the actions of atmospheric agents. The current design approach considers the possible extremes of soil conditions - either totally d ...

ELSEVIER2022

Resilience of riverbed vegetation to uprooting by flow

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy

Riverine ecosystem biodiversity is largely maintained by ecogeomorphic processes including vegetation renewal via uprooting and recovery times to flow disturbances. Plant roots thus heavily contribute to engineering resilience to perturbation of such ecosy ...

2018

Evaluation of Dissolved Organic Carbon as a Soil Quality Indicator in National Monitoring Schemes

Robert Thomas Edmund Mills

Background: Monitoring the properties of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soil water is frequently used to evaluate changes in soil quality and to explain shifts in freshwater ecosystem functioning. Methods: Using >700 individual soils (0-15 cm) collected ...

Public Library Science2014

Modelling of mechanisms affecting nitrogen and carbon cycles in soils subject to land use change

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Jordi Batlle-Aguilar

In order to meet demands for crops, pasture and firewood, the rate of land use change from forested to agricultural uses steadily increased over several decades, resulting in an increased release of nutrients towards groundwater and surface water bodies. I ...

2009

Valorisation des boues de lavage de gravière dans le domaine du stockage d'eau potable, d'eau chaude et de la rétention de substances polluantes

The present study on the recovery of gravel washing muds is placed in the context of geology applied to engineering and environment, which is a field of research done at the Laboratory of Geology (GEOLEP) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lau ...

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