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The term nature-based solutions was put forward by practitioners in the late 2000s. At that time it was used by international organisations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Bank in the context of finding new solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects by working with natural ecosystems rather than relying purely on engineering interventions.
Nature-based solutions can create more sponge-like conditions to help absorb run-off. Yet, cities have long depended on so-called gray solutions—engineered infrastructure made of materials ...
npj series. The Nature Partner Journals series, abbreviated npj, is a series of online-only, open access, journals.It was launched in April 2014 with three journals: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, and npj Schizophrenia.
To quantitatively assess the output of a publishing company, in 2014 a research group associated with the University of Granada created a methodology based on the Thomson-Reuters Book Citation Index. [16] The quantitative weight of the publishers is based on output data, impact (citations) and publisher profile.
ScienceDirect is a searcheable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers. It hosts over 18 million publons from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books.
Police in Spain have arrested two people in connection with a missing persons case after a Google Maps vehicle took a picture of someone apparently loading a large object into the trunk of a car.
The company originates from several journals and publishing houses, notably Springer-Verlag, which was founded in 1842 by Julius Springer in Berlin [4] (the grandfather of Bernhard Springer who founded Springer Publishing in 1950 in New York), [5] Nature Publishing Group which has published Nature since 1869, [6] and Macmillan Education, which goes back to Macmillan Publishers founded in 1843.
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