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energy consumer, accounting for 26.1% of the world’s total energy consumption. It is essential to note that fossil resources, notably coal (57%) and oil (20%), remain the primary sources of fuel in China’s energy consumption. This over-reliance on traditional resources has led to a grow...
One very early example of this was the cooperative efforts between the railroads and the Young Men's Christian Association immediately after the Civil War to provide community services in areas affected by the railroads. These initiatives, in hindsight, can now be seen as early examples of ...
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Second, it suggests the ecological impacts of agricultural expansion in the late Spanish and early U.S. periods were highly variable by location, being affected by the crops planted, the rate of expansion, and the ways crops were cultivated, harvested and prepared for sale (see Kummer et al....
The first federal economic regulator in the U.S. was the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was created by theInterstate Commerce Act of 1887. This law required railroads, which weregrowing dramaticallyand becoming a highly influential industry, to operate safely and fairly and to charge reasonabl...
All of these are consistent with the suburbanization of this region that began in the twenties, framed around the first street cars and railroads and now automobiles. This is utterly unsustainable—completely unsustainable. “California a guide to the Golden state – Bed of the All-American Canal...
We set aspect, elevation, slope, and population growth rate layers as our static variables and proximity to urban areas, and proximity to roads, highways and railroads as our dynamic variables. Transition potentials were then created using the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) model, a tool for ...
expansion. This is because the central region is a plain area with flat terrain, and the availability of transportation facilities to some extent leads to landscape fragmentation. It has been shown that the landscape on both sides of highways and railroads has a higher degree of fragmentation [...
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