These were probably due to human impacts, most notably in the years after World War II. Four major turning points as the result of human influence were identified: the 10th century, the late 16th century, the Meiji restoration ( a.d . 1863), and the end of World War II. The original...
Unlike in the rest of Asia, the health impacts in Japan have been considered to be mainly direct. To evaluate the impact of heat stress, the relationship between daily maximum temperature and mortality rate was examined for different prefectures. The relation was V-shaped, that is, there was ...
Asia held the largest proportions of cultivated land expansion (more than 91%), while West and East Asia had the largest proportion of artificial surface expansion (>22%, above the Asian level) (Fig.2a). Overall, human activity expansions in mountains were higher than those in hills for Asia...
If the processed water TEPCO discharges into the ocean is so clean to be even "drinkable" and its environmental impacts can be ignored, as some Japanese politicians have claimed, why is the wastewater being discharged into the sea, where the ocean currents will disperse it far from the Japanes...
Dog-mediated rabies kills tens of thousands of people each year in India, representing one third of the estimated global rabies burden. Whilst the World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hav...
Ecological resilience of ecosystems to human impacts: resilience of plants and animals 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 33 作者:J Morimoto,J Negishi 摘要: Landscape and Ecological Engineering - 关键词: SENDAI Earthquake, Japan, 2011 ECOLOGICAL resilience SUSTAINABLE development WEATHER & climate change ARID...
In Japan, cattle screening tests for BSE are conducted at slaughterhouses for surveillance purposes and as a meat safety measure, but the public health impacts of such testing and the subsequent removal of positive animals from the food chain have not been quantitatively assessed. We evaluated the...
Large, well-documented wildfires have recently generated worldwide attention, and raised concerns about the impacts of humans and climate change on wildfire regimes. However, comparatively little is known about the patterns and driving forces of global f
Labelling human impacts on products and services and embedding human rights in climate communication could contextualize carbon emissions for consumers and incentivize companies to accelerate the move to net zero. Zia Mehrabi Ginni Braich Comment23 Dec 2024 Challenges and promises of big team comparati...
Here we explored human behaviour change impacts on urban climate during the G20 Osaka Summit and the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. The G20 Summit was held in the Asian megacity of Osaka, Japan on 28–29 June 2019. Due to the G20 restrictions, the traffic count in the city cent...