Salvatore Pappalardo

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrated analysis of the hydrocarbon sector and its associated road-building in the western Amazon and present an updated 2014 western Amazon hydrocarbon map illustrating that oil and gas blocks now cover 733 414 km2, an area much larger than the US state of Texas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrated analysis of the hydrocarbon sector and its associated road-building in the western Amazon and present an updated 2014 western Amazon hydrocarbon map illustrating that oil and gas blocks now cover 733 414 km2, an area much larger than the US state of Texas.

TL;DR: GIS analysis results clearly show that ZITT boundary is cartographically nonsense due to the impossibility of mapping out the perimeter, and GIS analysis of anthropological data shows presence of Tagaeri Taromenane clans outside the ZITT perimeter, within oil production areas and in nearby farmer settlements, reflecting the limits of protection policies for non-contacted indigenous territory.

TL;DR: Fugacity model results show that specific physical-chemical parameters may be used and a specific soil-sediment-plant compartment included for modelling herbicides behaviour in a vegetated ditch, and confirm that accumulation is low or negligible for herbicides with a half-life of 40 days or less.

TL;DR: A field trial was conducted in 2014 to evaluate herbicide runoff reduction and retention using a 0.32-ha constructed surface flow wetland (CSFW) at the outlet of a 6-ha agricultural basin this paper.