item: #1 of 78 id: ajeem-1008 author: Richard Ingwe; Joseph C. Ebegbulem; C. C. C. Ikeji title: Ecocentric and anthropocentric policies and crises in climate/environment, finance and economy: Implications of the emerging green policy of the Obama administration for Africa’s sustainable development date: 2013 words: 9362 flesch: 44 summary: Despite a series of mounting scientific evidence that global climate change was inflicting irreversible transformation on the earth’s environmental and climate subsystems, govern-ments especially in the industrialized and economically advanced nations almost obstinately continued to pursue economic growth-centered development strategy while ignoring the deleterious consequences of that attitude on the global ecosystem especially the life bearing biosphere. We used desk research and descriptive methods to analyze secondary data based on increasing civil society involvement in development processes under emerging paradigm of partnership, governance, climate change, global financial crisis. keywords: africa; change; climate; climate change; countries; crisis; development; economic; energy; global; green; human; national; nations; obama; policy; region; society; usa; world cache: ajeem-1008.pdf plain text: ajeem-1008.txt item: #2 of 78 id: ajeem-1009 author: J. Ronaldo Torres; L. Antônio Philomena title: Environmental port management: Conceptual model development and use of tools to evaluate and monitor dredging activities in the Port of Rio Grande, Brazil date: 2013 words: 4393 flesch: 52 summary: It is known from prior projects that the sediments from depth of this channel is about 14 m and is maintained through Rio Grande channel are contaminated by trace Torres and Antônio 024 Figure 2. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals Full Length Research Paper Environmental port management: Conceptual model development and use of tools to evaluate and monitor dredging activities in the Port of Rio Grande, Brazil J. Ronaldo Torres* and L. Antônio Philomena Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande, Departamento de Ciências Morfo-Biológicas. keywords: activities; area; disposal; dredging; environmental; grande; lagoon; model; monitoring; port; rio; rio grande; sediments cache: ajeem-1009.pdf plain text: ajeem-1009.txt item: #3 of 78 id: ajeem-1010 author: A. F. Lawal; O. A. Omotesho; M. O. Adewumi title: Land use pattern and sustainability of food crop production in the fadama of Southern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria date: 2013 words: 5979 flesch: 58 summary: The villages and households selection was based on the proportion of fadama food crop farming households in the NSADP zones and the villages respectively. The general co taret on financial consideration the farm operation that production of food crop farming households in the Fadama of Niger State, Ni Southern Guinea Savanna, Niger State, Nigeria crop enterprises was profitable and therefore sustainable. keywords: crop; fadama; farming; food; households; index; land; nigeria; nutrient; production; state; study; sustainability cache: ajeem-1010.pdf plain text: ajeem-1010.txt item: #4 of 78 id: ajeem-1011 author: David Hoyos; Pere Riera; Javier Fernández-Macho; Carmen Gallastegui; Dolores Garcia title: Valuing environmental impacts of coastal development projects: A choice experiment application in Spain date: 2013 words: 5078 flesch: 50 summary: The use of CE methodology in this context is thus justified by two reasons: first, as a SP non-market valuation technique, it allows to estimate hypothetical environmental quality changes; and secondly, it is able to separately estimate the preference of individuals for different environmental attributes and marginal values. Previous investigation on environmental characteristics of Jaizkibel natural site, experts’ advice and focus groups facilitated the definition of environmental attributes and levels of provision. keywords: alternative; attributes; avifauna; choice; euros; flora; jaizkibel; landscape; population; seabed; seaport; table; valuation; wtp cache: ajeem-1011.pdf plain text: ajeem-1011.txt item: #5 of 78 id: ajeem-1012 author: AS Abdul-Rahim; HO Mohd-Shahwahid; S. Mad-Nasir; AG Awang-Noor title: Market and welfare economic impacts of sustainable forest management practices: An empirical analysis of timber market in Peninsular Malaysia date: 2013 words: 10099 flesch: 53 summary: This study will not only analyze the determinant of Peninsular Malaysia timber market, but also internalise the externality effects in the systems analysis. This result confirmed the findings of previous studies (Mohd Shahwahid, 1995; Abdul Rahim; Mohd Shahwahid, 2009e) that the domestic demand and supply for timber price is inelastic. keywords: analysis; cost; demand; forest; malaysia; market; peninsular; practices; price; sfm; study; supply; timber; timber market; timber supply cache: ajeem-1012.pdf plain text: ajeem-1012.txt item: #6 of 78 id: ajeem-1013 author: Benon C. Basheka; Milton Tumutegyereize title: Measuring the performance of contractors in government construction projects in developing countries: Uganda’s context date: 2013 words: 5219 flesch: 48 summary: Such contextual analysis enables us have unique examples for understanding the measure- ment challenges for contractor performance. Contractor performance is judged based on their (i) ability to use resources efficiently, (ii) concern on being reasonable during contract modifications, (iii) ability to structure and work with teams, (iv) ability to continuously improve their internal employee capabilities through training, (v) do the right job at the right time, and (vi) use of high quality of supplies and materials. keywords: ability; construction; contractors; factors; manage; measurement; performance; project; quality; sector; study; uganda cache: ajeem-1013.pdf plain text: ajeem-1013.txt item: #7 of 78 id: ajeem-1014 author: Anuj Kumar Chandel; Chan ES; Ravinder Rudravaram; M. Lakshmi Narasu; L. Venkateswar Rao; Pogaku Ravindra title: Economics and environmental impact of bioethanol production technologies: an appraisal date: 2013 words: 12663 flesch: 49 summary: Simulation of ethanol production processes based on enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials using Aspen. There is a copious amount of lignocellulosic biomass worldwide that can be exploited for fuel ethanol production. keywords: acid; acid hydrolysis; appl; batch; biochem; bioethanol; biomass; biotechnol; cells; cellulose; chandel; concentration; conversion; cost; dilute; economics; energy; enzyme; et al; ethanol; ethanol production; fermentation; fuel; hemicellulose; hydrolysis; lignocellulosic; pretreatment; process; production; singh; ssf; sugar; technologies; yeast cache: ajeem-1014.pdf plain text: ajeem-1014.txt item: #8 of 78 id: ajeem-1015 author: Wagner Cezar Lucato; Rosângela Maria Vanalle; Milton Vieira Júnior; José Carlos da Silva Santos title: Environmental management in Brazil: A survey evaluating current practice and performance in the industrial sector date: 2013 words: 7451 flesch: 47 summary: On the other hand, firm size did matter in terms of environmental performance, but no significant difference was perceived among manufacturing companies in different industrial sectors. Key words: Environmental performance, industrial pollution, sustainable development, survey, Brazil. keywords: companies; company; environmental; firms; industrial; iso; management; performance; practices; research; results; test cache: ajeem-1015.pdf plain text: ajeem-1015.txt item: #9 of 78 id: ajeem-1016 author: Aynur Demir title: Economic of biodiversity: The importance of studies aimed at assessing the economic value of biological diversity date: 2013 words: 7679 flesch: 55 summary: Additionally, it seems clear that in our assessment of economic valuation studies, the evaluation of biodiversity values does not give a stable or clear monetary value for biodiversity. These value categories are used in the measurement of economic value of the provided benefit from biodiversity. keywords: analysis; biodiversity; conservation; economic; ecosystem; function; indirect; production; research; services; species; studies; use; valuation; value; year cache: ajeem-1016.pdf plain text: ajeem-1016.txt item: #10 of 78 id: ajeem-1017 author: Kabi Prasad Pokhrel title: Role of participatory research on natural resource management: A case of Karnali Watershed Area, Nepal date: 2013 words: 8235 flesch: 37 summary: This is possible only by strengthening such community institutions through providing sufficient autonomy as part of the organization involved in resource development. Thus, the right mix of traditional knowledge would be a winning combination of resource development. keywords: area; conservation; development; environment; government; karnali; level; management; methods; participation; participatory; people; planning; research; resource; watershed cache: ajeem-1017.pdf plain text: ajeem-1017.txt item: #11 of 78 id: ajeem-1018 author: Santosh Kumar Mishra title: Framework for sustainable development education and lessons learned date: 2013 words: 6845 flesch: 38 summary: Sustainability education should provide faculty and students with an opportunity to explore how their behaviors affect the quality of life of people and other living beings around the globe. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals Review Framework for sustainable development education and lessons learned Santosh Kumar Mishra Population Education Resource Centre (PERC), Department of Continuing and Adult Education and Extension Work, S. N. D. T. Women's University, Patkar Hall Building, First Floor, Room. keywords: change; communities; community; development; education; environmental; issues; knowledge; learning; skills; students; sustainability; world cache: ajeem-1018.pdf plain text: ajeem-1018.txt item: #12 of 78 id: ajeem-1019 author: Eseroghene Franklin Udjo title: Environmental audit behaviour, decision pattern, and market performance of small and medium enterprises in Nigeria date: 2013 words: 2627 flesch: 49 summary: The environmental audit behaviour and decision making pattern of Nigerian SMEs is obscure. Given the fact that the Nigerian business environment is turbulent, the study finds out whether the decision making process of Nigerian SMEs is contingent upon information from the business environment. keywords: business; environment; information; market; share; smes cache: ajeem-1019.pdf plain text: ajeem-1019.txt item: #13 of 78 id: ajeem-1020 author: Rajiv K. Sinha; Brijalkumar Soni; Binod Shankar title: Integration of social, ecological, political and technological issues into economic development programs: Key to sustainable development of human society date: 2013 words: 13403 flesch: 45 summary: It is also the responsibility of the academia to educate the politicians and decision makers about the benefits of sustainable development technologies. Social and economic equity is a necessary condition for sustainable human development. keywords: air; cost; development; earth; energy; environmental; global; health; human; industries; life; people; pollution; production; resources; society; soil; sustainability; technologies; technology; use; waste; water; world; year cache: ajeem-1020.pdf plain text: ajeem-1020.txt item: #14 of 78 id: ajeem-1021 author: Guillermo Galindo Reyes title: Mixed culture (shrimps, oysters and macroalgae) to improve the productivity, and reduce the environmental impact to coastal ecosystem caused by shrimp hatcheries in Mexico date: 2013 words: 4817 flesch: 65 summary: Temporal variability of plankton and nutrients in shrimp culture ponds vs. adjacent estuarine water. Nutrients, phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms in shrimp ponds: A review with special reference to the situation in the Gulf of California. keywords: aquariums; culture; experiment; hatcheries; march; mean; ponds; shrimp; values; water cache: ajeem-1021.pdf plain text: ajeem-1021.txt item: #15 of 78 id: ajeem-1022 author: S. Mohammed Irshad title: Institutionalizing environmental hazards for ‘public needs’: Destruction of forest for drinking water supply in Kerala, India date: 2013 words: 3487 flesch: 58 summary: Destruction of forest for drinking water supply in Kerala, India S. Mohammed Irshad Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Science, Malatil and Jal A.D. Naoroji (New) Campus, Sion-Trombay Road, P. O. Box 8313, Deonar, Mumbai-400 088, India. Thus, drinking water supply providers are forced to pay less attention on ecology and put more efforts on ensuring water supply. keywords: area; dam; drinking; forest; government; kerala; sanctuary; state; supply; water cache: ajeem-1022.pdf plain text: ajeem-1022.txt item: #16 of 78 id: ajeem-1023 author: Art Kovacic title: Synergies among different parts of sustainable development date: 2013 words: 7037 flesch: 43 summary: In the paper the next hypothesis will be tested: First hypothesis: we need a wider set of sustainable development indicators, if we want to measure synergies among different parts of sustainable development. In new member countries can be seen the development of tools for measuring sustainable development. keywords: competitiveness; countries; development; economy; future; human; index; indicators; land; level; new; policies; quality; sustainability; system cache: ajeem-1023.pdf plain text: ajeem-1023.txt item: #17 of 78 id: ajeem-1024 author: Mohd Parid Mamat; Mohd Rusli Yacob; Alias Radam; Awang Noor Abdul Ghani; Lim Hin Fui title: Willingness to pay for protecting natural environments in Pulau Redang Marine Park, Malaysia date: 2013 words: 4999 flesch: 61 summary: Econometric models Logistic model The exploration of whether a person is willing to pay for con- servation of the marine park was done using logistic model. Same method is used by Hall et al. (2002) to determine bid values, based upon results from pre-testing or pilot test. keywords: bid; log; logistic; marine; model; park; prmp; study; wtp cache: ajeem-1024.pdf plain text: ajeem-1024.txt item: #18 of 78 id: ajeem-1025 author: Erielda Corrales; Regina Lacayo; Herman Mariano title: A study of the degree of genetic variation among populations of cacao grown in Nicaragua date: 2014 words: 4218 flesch: 55 summary: Ho He ƒ§ HS † HT †† Dm ‡ DST Þ GST ÞÞ El Castillo 23 6.3 0.609 0.733 0.19240 Los Guatusos 10 4.3 0.548 0.619 0.16758 Nueva Guinea 11 4.3 0.555 0.562 0.06082 El Rama 17 4.1 0.448 0.553 0.21885 Muelle de los 9 3.6 0.450 0.520 0.19245 Bueyes Average 4.5 0.522 0.600 0.16642 0.5974 0.7781 0.2258 0.1807 0.2322 ¶ alleles number; ¶¶ average of alleles by locus; § Coefficient of Consanguinity; † Genetic Diversity inside of population; †† Total Genetic Diversity ; ‡ Absolute Genetic Differentiation; Þ Genetic Diversity Between Populations ; ÞÞ Relative Magnitude of Gene Differentiation among Subgroups. In relation to the divergence between Ho and He values (Table 2) for population El Castillo and El Rama, they are far apart, it is likely that one or more considerations for the Hardy-Weinberg (HW) are not being met (being diploid, sexually reproducing, not this cross generational, 186 Afr. keywords: alleles; cacao; cocoa; diversity; heterozygosity; locus; los; nicaragua; populations; study; tree; value cache: ajeem-1025.pdf plain text: ajeem-1025.txt item: #19 of 78 id: ajeem-1026 author: Rikhtegar S. Hossein; Mohammad Eskandari; Hossein Rezaei title: A study of nitrogen and boron impacts on yield and significance of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) date: 2014 words: 5605 flesch: 62 summary: Soil applied B increased cotton yields even when B deficiency was not evident in the plants (Anderson and Boswell, 1968). No significant effect of B on lint yield, individual boll weight, or petiole nitrate-N level and no significant N and B interactions were found in a regional study conducted to evaluate the interaction of N and B rates on cotton yields (Oosterhuis and Steger, 1998). keywords: application; boll; case; cotton; foliar; seed; table; treatment; yield cache: ajeem-1026.pdf plain text: ajeem-1026.txt item: #20 of 78 id: ajeem-1027 author: Pedro Lima; Adriana Gisele; Luiz Braga Ponte; Alberto Santos Chico title: An investigation of zinc uptake by maize plants after fertilization with soil and foliage date: 2014 words: 2879 flesch: 67 summary: Figure 2 – Zinc concentration in shoots and roots of maize plants fertilized with zinc via foliar in roots Zn concentration; similarly, the doses 10, 15, and 20 g L -1 of Zn promoted increases of 10%, 32% and 66%, respectively. How do some plants tolerate low levels of soil zinc? keywords: doses; plants; soil; zinc cache: ajeem-1027.pdf plain text: ajeem-1027.txt item: #21 of 78 id: ajeem-1028 author: Godana Bekere; Kumsa Leqa; Wako Ogata; Zenawi Asfaw Isaias title: An investigation on the diet composition, seasonal variation in feeding intensity and ontogenetic dietary shifts of L. intermedius in Lake Koka date: 2014 words: 5555 flesch: 63 summary: Macrophytes and detritus were important food items during the wet months occurring in 96.2% and 60.9% of the guts, respectively and comprising 66.1% and 24.0% of the total volume of food items, respectively. In aquatic systems where the water levels in lakes and reservoirs have been known to fluctuate, the quality and abundance of food items for fish vary significantly through time (Cabana et al., 1994). keywords: detritus; diet; figure; fish; food; food items; insects; intermedius; items; lake; total; volume cache: ajeem-1028.pdf plain text: ajeem-1028.txt item: #22 of 78 id: ajeem-1029 author: Basavapunnaiah Naidu; Ranga Reddy; Rao Koratala Satyanarayana; Venkayya Prakasam title: A study of synthetic lignin decolorization ability of P. chrysosporium, T. hirsuta and marine fungi date: 2014 words: 2595 flesch: 46 summary: Four main genera of white rot fungi have shown potential for bioremediation: Phanerocheate sp, Trametes sp, Bjerkandera sp and Pleurotussp (Hestbjerg et al., 2003). The basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium in white rot fungi is the most extensively studied and discussed (Tien, M. and Kirk, T. K, 1983). keywords: chrysosporium; concentration; decolorization; fungi; lignin; marine; trametes cache: ajeem-1029.pdf plain text: ajeem-1029.txt item: #23 of 78 id: ajeem-1030 author: George Sergiu; Vladimir Paul; Pascal Balint; Ludovic Bentoiu; Drăgoi Nicolae Bretan title: A study of the vegetative development of Amaranthus in order to integrate it into agricultural technologies and adapt it to climatic conditions from Somesan Plateau date: 2014 words: 2407 flesch: 48 summary: Seeds production of Amaranthus cultivars obtained on Stagnic argic phaeozem in Cluj Napoca, 2008-2009 Variant Production (kg/ha) Production (%) Difference (±) Significance of differences Witness (average) 2,530.36 100 0 Witness V1 - Alegria 2,425.83 c 95.9 -104.53 000 V2 - Amont 2,670.17 j 105.5 139.81 *** V3 - Pleisman 2,497.17 g 98.7 -33.19 000 V4 - Golden 2,727.17 k 107.8 196.81 *** V5 - Mercado 2,411.00 Results and Discussion Vegetative development of Amaranthus cultivars determined every 15 days show an increase in height, in terms of Cluj-Napoca, approximately 85-99 centimeters, the increase being faster in the first part of the vegetation. keywords: amaranthus; cultivars; production cache: ajeem-1030.pdf plain text: ajeem-1030.txt item: #24 of 78 id: ajeem-1031 author: Shankar Patel; Acharya Patnaik; Omkar Sanjeev Ashok; Gulati Goyal Goswami title: A study of the development of vegetation type map using visual image interpretation technique date: 2015 words: 4370 flesch: 57 summary: The forest class is subdivided into mixed species forest types, gregarious species forest types, locale specific types, degraded types based on composition and location specific distribution controlled by physiographic, edaphic and disturbance conditions. In the present study, vegetation types and land use of Rajasthan were mapped using multi-season IRS P6 LISS III data. keywords: aravallis; area; data; forest; image; india; mapping; rajasthan; scrub; species; types; vegetation cache: ajeem-1031.pdf plain text: ajeem-1031.txt item: #25 of 78 id: ajeem-1032 author: Ashok Patel; Shri Kohli; Prakash Kohli title: A study of the degradation of feather and hair wastes in an eco-friendly way so as to make the waste dumping soils fertile date: 2015 words: 2603 flesch: 59 summary: Isolating Keratinophilic Fungi from the soils of the cemeteries and forests of szczecin. Investigation of Keratinophilic Fungi from soils in Western Australia - premilinary survey. keywords: degradation; feather; fungi; hair; keratinophilic cache: ajeem-1032.pdf plain text: ajeem-1032.txt item: #26 of 78 id: ajeem-1033 author: Bayo Paul; Bolanle Akiolu; Yemi Philips title: An investigation on the income accruing to sorghum-rice enterprise in response to the most profitable mixture combination for adoption by farmers date: 2015 words: 2651 flesch: 53 summary: Sorghum crop received fertilizer application: 64 kg N, 13.2 kg P and 26.4 kg K in two split doses at planting and 6 WAS to sorghum, while rice received 80 kg N as against the fertilizer rate given to sorghum with other nutrients maintained as in sorghum crop. While all the crop combinations investigated performed better than sole cropped sorghum (in terms of revenue generation), sole rice performed better than all the intercrops. keywords: crop; cropping; implication; intercrop; rice; sorghum; yield cache: ajeem-1033.pdf plain text: ajeem-1033.txt item: #27 of 78 id: ajeem-1034 author: Necer Mohamed; Smain Rachid title: The circular economy concept applied to non-productive structures: Case of the wastewater processing Station of a Tannery Algeria date: 2015 words: 3684 flesch: 47 summary: On one hand in front of this heavy heritage of industry consuming water and chemicals of export, the managers are forced to exert a responsible management, that implies, for example, to know well the chemicals implemented in the process (including the very prepared products), to take the safety measures for the protection of people and of the environment and finally optimizes the operation of the installations of waste water treatment in Necer & Smain 227 Table 1. Which must be exploited on a large scale in operations ' sometimes without interest for the administrators ' for example the operations of waste water treatment. keywords: economy; environmental; hour; industry; model; process; sulfur; tannery; waste; water cache: ajeem-1034.pdf plain text: ajeem-1034.txt item: #28 of 78 id: ajeem-1035 author: Akash Mukul Jyothi title: A study of metabolism of para-nitrophenol in Arthrobacter sp. SPG date: 2015 words: 2776 flesch: 56 summary: RESULTS Isolation And Identification Of Strain SPG A pNP degrading bacterium, strain SPG was isolated from a pesticide contaminated site, India and utilized following compounds as sole carbon and energy source: pNP, 2-chloro-4-nitrophenol (2C4NP), 2-nitrobenzoate, 3- methyl-4-nitrophenol and nitrocatechol strain SPG was 245 Afr. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain SPG has been deposited in the Growth Of Strain SPG On pNP: When strain SPG was grown on minimal media containing 0.3 mM pNP as sole carbon and energy source, the yellow color of pNP (0.3 mM final concentration) changed to colourless indicating its utilization by the microorganism. keywords: arthrobacter; degradation; nitrophenol; pathway; pnp; spg; strain cache: ajeem-1035.pdf plain text: ajeem-1035.txt item: #29 of 78 id: ajeem-1036 author: Olunga M.A; Kavoi M.M; Guthiga P.M title: Assessment of factors influencing utilization and conservation of forest resources in Kipini Division of Tana Delta District, Kenya date: 2015 words: 9291 flesch: 57 summary: The purpose for this study was to determine the factors influencing the decision to use forest products and the attitudes of farmers on forest conservation. Increase in income has positive influence on likelihood of forest product use. keywords: conservation; distance; factor; forest; forest products; head; household; income; management; model; number; products; regime; regression; resources; respondents; results; study; use; variables cache: ajeem-1036.pdf plain text: ajeem-1036.txt item: #30 of 78 id: ajeem-1037 author: Yilma Haroyu; Muktar Bayeh; Habte Wolle title: Valuation of environmental goods and services: The case of Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia date: 2016 words: 6268 flesch: 53 summary: In some parts of the world, increasing park entrance fee was not significantly reduced visitor numbers, especially in the long-term since the demand for visiting the park is relatively inelastic (Herath, 2000; Shultz et al., 1998). Shultz S, Pinazzo, J and Cifuentes, M. (1998), “Opportunities and limitations of contingent valuation surveys to determine national park entrance fees: evidence from Costa Rica”, Environment and Development Economics, 3: 131-149. UNEP, (2012). keywords: birr; bmnp; conservation; entrance; fee; national; park; pay; people; respondents; services; study; value; willingness; wtp cache: ajeem-1037.pdf plain text: ajeem-1037.txt item: #31 of 78 id: ajeem-1038 author: Serour Abdeslam title: A study of how tall buildings influence climatic factors and the need to create a different microclimate in a district date: 2015 words: 5679 flesch: 56 summary: During hot periods, it is usually quite hot on the ground floor of high rises, and the temperature tends to decrease with height (Park et al., 2002). High-rises affect winds mainly by: reducing wind speed; average measurements taken over a period of 4 years indicate that there is 15% calm wind (zero wind) at La Défense between the high rises, compared with 2% in Paris Suppressing or reducing winds at the building facades, Concentrating the air flux in the tight spaces between high rises (Venturi effect). keywords: air; average; buildings; défense; paris; pollution; rise; towers; urban; wind cache: ajeem-1038.pdf plain text: ajeem-1038.txt item: #32 of 78 id: ajeem-1039 author: Andrew Walker title: Eco-impacts evaluation in the greening approach adopted by the Romanian Public University date: 2016 words: 3427 flesch: 50 summary: The results of EFA include the basic lifecycle data for food consummation, energy demand, food wastes and transportation (Table 4). The results of CFA include the basic lifecycle data for food consummation, energy demand, food wastes and transportation (Table 5). keywords: eco; energy; food; footprint; table; total; ugal; university; wastes cache: ajeem-1039.pdf plain text: ajeem-1039.txt item: #33 of 78 id: ajeem-1040 author: Sanjeev Ajit; Mishra Naqvi; Vinay Maneka title: A study of the heavy metals and their level in the solid and liquid waste in Uttarakhand state of India date: 2017 words: 6022 flesch: 64 summary: 0.450 nil Liquid 4.550 9.87 nil 1.65 nil 0.012 0.025 nil nil nil 5 DP Solid 3.455 4.58 3.30 nil 0.05 nil nil nil 0.230 nil Liquid 4.350 8.90 nil 0.79 nil 0.015 0.054 nil nil nil 6 AM Solid 4.567 nil nil 0.452 3.456 0.005 nil nil nil nil Liquid 0.45 nil nil 0.580 nil 0.086 0.02 nil nil nil 7 LG Solid 2.505 1.560 2.456 0.580 0.450 nil nil nil nil nil Liquid nil nil 2.350 nil nil nil 0.568 nil nil nil 8 RT Solid 5.89 nil 0.785 3.568 nil nil 0.05 nil nil nil Liquid 2.36 nil nil 1.456 0.067 0.043 nil nil nil nil 9 NL Solid nil 9.50 1.29 nil nil nil nil nil 0.089 nil Liquid 2.320 4.60 nil 0.110 nil 0.008 0.010 nil nil nil 10 HD Solid 2.305 5.45 1.95 nil 0.560 nil nil nil 0.087 nil Liquid 4.550 nil nil 0.320 0.870 0.010 0.120 nil nil nil 11 PN Solid nil nil 0.345 nil 2.650 nil 0.785 nil nil nil Liquid 8.905 nil 0.125 0.645 0.128 0.760 nil nil 0.50 nil 12 RP Solid nil nil 2.872 0.325 0.785 nil 0.896 nil nil nil Liquid 4.680 nil nil nil nil nil 0.325 nil nil nil 13 TP Solid 4.580 nil nil nil nil 0.234 0.456 nil nil nil Liquid 2.456 3.245 3.456 nil 0.981 0.680 nil nil nil nil 14 KR Solid 5.860 35.50 6.50 nil 3.12 nil nil nil 0.205 nil Liquid 8.780 55.50 1.35 nil 2.15 0.605 0.564 nil 0.260 nil 15 CP Solid nil nil 0.654 nil nil nil 0.765 nil 0.25 nil Liquid 4.891 nil nil nil 6.40 0.505 nil nil nil nil 16 JM Solid 6.780 2.543 nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil Liquid nil nil nil 0.783 0.532 0.543 0.543 nil nil nil 17 UM Solid nil nil 4.50 nil 0.32 nil nil nil nil nil Liquid 4.550 nil nil 1.05 nil 0.015 0.035 nil 0.350 nil 18 SN Solid nil nil 0.78 nil nil nil nil nil 0.120 nil Liquid 6.980 10.65 nil 0.45 0.07 0.002 0.230 nil nil nil 19 UK Solid nil 0.980 0.03 nil nil nil nil nil 0.002 nil Liquid 3.120 nil nil 0.065 nil 0.003 0.013 nil nil nil 20 PL Solid nil 0.280 0.033 nil nil nil nil nil 0.002 nil Liquid nil nil nil 0.065 nil 0.003 nil nil nil nil 21 MR Solid 8.455 12.97 7.60 nil 0.56 nil nil nil 0.905 nil Liquid 8.120 34.80 nil 5.95 1.05 0.210 0.202 nil nil nil 22 DN Solid nil nil 0.021 0.052 0.050 nil 0.003 nil nil nil Liquid 1.68 nil 0.022 0.005 nil nil nil nil nil nil 23 CB Solid nil 3.60 0.40 nil nil nil nil nil 0.079 nil Liquid 6.840 6.50 nil 0.89 0.098 0.003 0.101 nil nil nil 24 NT Solid nil 1.50 0.06 nil nil nil nil nil 0.045 nil Liquid 5.989 7.80 nil 0.015 nil 0.001 0.010 nil nil nil 25 BT Solid nil 8.95 0.76 nil nil nil nil nil 0.040 nil Liquid 0.760 4.76 nil 2.08 0.054 0.004 0.150 nil nil nil 26 CR Solid 0.890 5.560 nil 1.65 1.98 nil nil nil nil nil Liquid nil nil nil 2.087 0.98 2.56 nil nil nil nil 27 DK Solid 3.257 11.85 2.58 nil 0.605 nil nil nil nil nil Liquid 5.505 8.85 nil nil nil 0.012 0.025 nil nil nil 28 DD Solid 7.908 30.20 5.50 nil 3.34 nil nil nil 0.605 nil Liquid 9.980 45.75 nil 4.78 1.85 0.405 0.560 nil nil nil 29 HR keywords: cadmium; chromium; concentrations; copper; environment; lead; liquid; metals; nil liquid; nil nil; samples; soil; solid; waste; water cache: ajeem-1040.pdf plain text: ajeem-1040.txt item: #34 of 78 id: ajeem-1041 author: James Akintola; Balogun Lateef; Jude Abiola title: Challenges of open dumping of animal wastes on the environment: A case study of S and D farms, Odeda, Nigeria date: 2017 words: 2162 flesch: 62 summary: Keywords: Animal waste, open dumping, waste disposal, waste management. For the Hypothesis III; χ 2 calculated value of 0.05 is also less than the χ 2 tabulated value of 3.84 at level of significance 0.05, implying that the industrial training being given to the workers on waste disposal methods is not adequate. keywords: disposal; farm; waste; workers cache: ajeem-1041.pdf plain text: ajeem-1041.txt item: #35 of 78 id: ajeem-1042 author: George Abuchi Agwu title: Are investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies complementary? An econometric analysis of households’ environmental investments date: 2017 words: 8628 flesch: 46 summary: Investment inefficiency and the adoption of eco- innovations: The case of household energy efficiency technologies. Determinants of household energy consumption in india. keywords: adoption; age; behaviour; consumption; dimensions; efficiency; energy; energy efficiency; households; income; investment; model; policy; technologies; variables cache: ajeem-1042.pdf plain text: ajeem-1042.txt item: #36 of 78 id: ajeem-1043 author: Devi Rani Bindu title: A study of the security concerns and policies of Asian developing countries with regard to sustainable development and impact of nuclear energy date: 2017 words: 9263 flesch: 40 summary: Nuclear power generation involves no carbon dioxide emissions, but the current use of nuclear energy cannot be considered sustainable. This paper argues that if countries such as China and India continue to expand the use of nuclear energy, they would do better not to choose a nuclear fuel cycle based on reprocessing, but to adopt a once-through fuel cycle instead. keywords: china; costs; countries; cycle; development; electricity; energy; fuel; global; india; oil; power; reprocessing; uranium; world cache: ajeem-1043.pdf plain text: ajeem-1043.txt item: #37 of 78 id: ajeem-1044 author: N Munu; PA Owusu; R Kizza; AAhumuza; N Banadda; I Kabenge title: Towards accident-free construction sites: The role of human resource management – A review date: 2017 words: 10116 flesch: 53 summary: Construction industry accidents have significant ongoing cost to employers, workers and society (Haslam et al., 2005). A quick summary of the discussions of the HRM practices, policies and processes in relation to construction industry accidents points out the following among others: (1) recruitment of safety manager(s) and establishing a safety committee, (2) timely payments and rewards, (3) assessment of rewards to include supervisor participatory involvement, safety talks given and number of injuries among crew members, (4) centralization and formalization of the recruitment process for all workers with employee retention focus, (5) insurance of employees against accidents, (6) standardized salary scale where employees are paid on guaranteed monthly basis not based on work load performed, (7) encouragement of standard working hours (for example eight hours per day), (8) discouragement of bonus pay and overtime works by lowering rates, (9) consideration of employee personality, capability, talent and injury history during recruitment, (10) creation and development of a company‘s own human resource base through frequent trainings and talks, (11) promoting seniority of workforce, and (12) avoiding on-the-job training but upholding regular safety trainings at places like training centers. keywords: accidents; construction; construction accidents; construction industry; et al; factors; hrm; human; industry; management; organization; performance; practices; project; resource; safety; tier; training; vol; workers cache: ajeem-1044.pdf plain text: ajeem-1044.txt item: #38 of 78 id: ajeem-1045 author: Yordanos Gebremeskel; Nyambe Mubita; Bupe Simuchimba; James Mulenga title: Willingness to Pay (WTP) for pipe-water connection in Makululu compound of Kabwe, Zambia date: 2017 words: 4187 flesch: 60 summary: The proportion of the population with access to an improved source of drinking water increased from 24 percent in 2007 to 65 percent in 2014 (ZDHS, 2015). In comparison to its neighbouring countries, as is shown in Table 2 (Annex), Zambia has among the lowest levels of access to drinking water. keywords: connection; drinking; estimation; income; water; willingness; wtp; yes; zambia cache: ajeem-1045.pdf plain text: ajeem-1045.txt item: #39 of 78 id: ajeem-1046 author: Felix Ifeanyichukwu Igbeke title: Conflict and resource control in the Niger Delta: Implications for the Gulf of Guinea Region date: 2018 words: 9367 flesch: 51 summary: As the following cases illustrate, oil production does not always cause militarization and violence, but it usually has a negative impact on the security and stability of those countries that have large oil resources. Econ. Manage. and experience conflict with their neighbors or serious internal violence, but the possession of oil resources has unique consequences for national security and internal stability. keywords: conflict; delta region; gas; governance; government; guinea; guinea region; gulf; niger delta; nigeria; oil; production; region; resources; revenues; security; states cache: ajeem-1046.pdf plain text: ajeem-1046.txt item: #40 of 78 id: ajeem-1047 author: Candice Barnard; Justin Shuttleworth; Mark C. Verwoerd title: An assessment of the effectiveness of water management in South Africa date: 2018 words: 5683 flesch: 50 summary: Water resource management is crucial for human security. Water resource management is crucial for food and ecological security. keywords: access; africa; change; climate; individuals; legislation; management; population; resources; south; south africa; use; water cache: ajeem-1047.pdf plain text: ajeem-1047.txt item: #41 of 78 id: ajeem-1048 author: Philémon Mafany George title: Prevalence of environmental degradation in natural resource management date: 2018 words: 4368 flesch: 43 summary: The spatial influence of International NGOs is a result of their policy of support to local NGOs through financial assistance and adoption of local NGOs and CBOs as co-workers. However there is the question of their sustainability as local NGOs derive most of their inspiration and resources from NGOs in the North. keywords: bamenda; development; helvetas; international; management; ngos; north; organizations; project; resource; rural; society; watershed cache: ajeem-1048.pdf plain text: ajeem-1048.txt item: #42 of 78 id: ajeem-1049 author: Agbofuodoh Ezekiel; Onuoha Elizabeth; Arugbeni Micheal title: A study of the effect of traditional values and conservation of natural resources in Nigeria date: 2018 words: 6108 flesch: 61 summary: The major virtue of this strong culture-based practice is that it encourages community participation in natural resource conservation and sus- tains positive awareness of nature and the linkages between man and nature (Tunon and Bruhn, 1994; Tupper, 2002). Findings show that traditional natural resources management in the selected communities are classified into the following categories: protection of particular ecosystems or habitats (such as sacred groves and sacred rivers/pond); and protection of particular animals or plant species (such as totem and tabooed species). keywords: beliefs; communities; community; conservation; delta; forest; gods; management; people; pond; resources; species; state; tree; water cache: ajeem-1049.pdf plain text: ajeem-1049.txt item: #43 of 78 id: ajeem-1050 author: Bomani Saida Sumari title: Approach to resolving pollution of river water associated with human activities in Tanzania date: 2018 words: 7219 flesch: 50 summary: The responsibility of water resource management currently rests under the power of the DED (Figure 3). Institutional framework for natural resource management (NRM) is rather sectoral thus lacking integration and sometimes results into conflicting efforts to conserve natural resources. keywords: activities; basin; degradation; development; district; land; livestock; majule; management; mara; mrb; region; resources; river; serengeti; study; tanzania; water cache: ajeem-1050.pdf plain text: ajeem-1050.txt item: #44 of 78 id: ajeem-1051 author: Mahamoudou Traoré Yonli title: An evaluation of the development trends of research on natural resource management in Nepal date: 2018 words: 8245 flesch: 37 summary: This is possible only by strengthening such community institutions through providing sufficient autonomy as part of the organization involved in resource development. Thus, the right mix of traditional knowledge would be a winning combination of resource development. keywords: area; conservation; development; environment; government; karnali; level; management; methods; participation; participatory; people; planning; research; resource; watershed cache: ajeem-1051.pdf plain text: ajeem-1051.txt item: #45 of 78 id: ajeem-1052 author: Moven Muzenda; Morgan H. Mahachi; Simon Olonga Asante title: Effect of depletion of natural resources in sustainable environmental management programmes in Zimbabwe date: 2018 words: 4798 flesch: 47 summary: Full Length Research Paper Effect of depletion of natural resources in sustainable environmental management programmes in Zimbabwe *Moven Muzenda, Morgan H. Mahachi and Simon Olonga Asante Department of Physics, Geography and Environmental Science, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe. The depletion of natural resources is one of the greatest challenges with far reaching consequences if sustainable environmental management programmes are not properly put into practice in Zimbabwe. keywords: conservation; environment; knowledge; management; nature; ndau; people; resources; study; systems; zimbabwe cache: ajeem-1052.pdf plain text: ajeem-1052.txt item: #46 of 78 id: ajeem-1053 author: Jagdish Bihari Gangadhar; Manmohan Khan; Akshay Ram Premji title: A study of the potentials of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation date: 2018 words: 6160 flesch: 47 summary: Key words: Conservation, culture, informal institutions, sacred forests, social taboos, traditional knowledge-based systems. There is thus an urgent need to investigate local perceptions of forest space and landscape, biodiversity conservation and traditional beliefs, and their significance for natural resources management, towards understanding the changing values of local people in relation to traditional protected areas, such as sacred forests. keywords: arboreum; biodiversity; conservation; devi; exploitation; forest; leucotrichophora; myrica; quercus; resource; rhododendron; sacred; sites; species; taboos; use; water cache: ajeem-1053.pdf plain text: ajeem-1053.txt item: #47 of 78 id: ajeem-1054 author: Mweshi Mukanga; Yakub Deedat; Felix S. Mwangala title: Toxic effects of five plant extracts against the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus date: 2019 words: 5959 flesch: 65 summary: Mean number of dead larger grain borer, P. truncatus adults in dried cassava treated with different doses of leaf powder during 70 days of storage. The percentage reduction in adult progeny in the leaf powder treatments followed similar pattern with the least recoveries occurring in Neem leaf powder treatment, followed by Water hyacinth. keywords: cassava; control; extracts; grain; guava; hyacinth; insect; larvae; leaf; neem; plant; powders; tephrosia; truncatus; water cache: ajeem-1054.pdf plain text: ajeem-1054.txt item: #48 of 78 id: ajeem-1055 author: Oladele A. Ogunseitan; Timothy R. Smith title: African Journal of Environmental Economics and Management ISSN 2375-0707 Vol. 7 (1), pp. 001-010, January, 2019. © International Scholars Journals date: 2019 words: 6777 flesch: 62 summary: Health costs of lead (Pb) exposure The estimates of childhood health costs of lead exposure are outlined in Table 8. With written consent, the nurse/phleboto- mist administered the survey and offered the subject a fact sheet containing health information on lead exposure in children. keywords: abatement; blood; burden; children; cost; disease; estimate; et al; exposure; gasoline; health; lead; nigeria; table; total cache: ajeem-1055.pdf plain text: ajeem-1055.txt item: #49 of 78 id: ajeem-1056 author: Oluleye A.; Ogungbenro S. B. title: Estimating the wind energy potential over the coastal stations of Nigeria using power law and diabatic methods date: 2019 words: 4053 flesch: 61 summary: Thus when potential site data are not available diabatic method can provide a good approximation of wind speeds. Equation [1] was used to estimate wind speed from reference height of 10 to 70 m. On the other hand, to estimate wind speed using diabatic method, we start from the Monin – Obukhov (M-O) similarity theory which relates the mean gradient of wind speed, temperature and humidity to the universal function of dimensionless stability parameter z L . keywords: calabar; energy; height; lagos; law; method; power; speeds; wind cache: ajeem-1056.pdf plain text: ajeem-1056.txt item: #50 of 78 id: ajeem-1057 author: Waris Ali Gabol; Aleem Ahmed title: Identification of future environmental challenges in Pakistan by 2025 through environment foresight date: 2019 words: 4875 flesch: 41 summary: Remedies A number of remedies were listed down for the above mentioned issues which include; construction of reservoirs, water audits and licensing/water pricing, watershed management, forestation because forest play vital role in biological re-charge mechanisms, water recycling, rain water harvesting, through introduction of rain water collection system by using rain water barrels, regular monitoring of water quality, awareness about water conservation with respect to religious and technical aspect, controlled pesticides usage and encouraging the natural organic farming, minimum use of pollutant, rural urban shift needs to be considered, district wise environmental study needs to be conducted to cope these issues, environment technology parks and incubation centers needs to be required, message oriented advertisements on water conservation strategies, political choices and awareness regarding water should be promoted, needs to exploit human resource in water conservation and management, water conscious society needed, water oriented education for youth required, youth can be a change agent for Pakistan, use of technology for water management for example G.I.S, introduction of water metering system, make efficient use of residential indoors and out door water by introducing water saver kits, education on water conservation, Pakistan Standards and Quality control authority should develop standard for clothes washer and make ensure implementation throughout the country, zoning of the coastal belt, afforestation of mangrove, control over fishing, reduced oil pouring into sea, implementation of ramsar, convention, minimize waste wherever practicable, use products designed to enable cost effective waste, reuse and recovery material where feasible, use products manufactured with minimal resource, consumption in the first place, use products efficiently and according to best practice, comply with waste legislation, enforcement of the waste management licensing regulations, waste minimization (reduce, re-use and re-cycling), promotion of bio-degradable waste for example replacement of plastic shopping bags, Regulation of drinking water use for purposes other than drinking for example car wash with it. Prospects for interstate conflict (James F. Brennan Lieutenant United States Navy B.A; Wabash College, 1997), lacking, ethical issues, lack of women consciousness in environment related issues, lack of religious aspects towards environment, lack of mindset changes towards sustainable environment, inequitable water distribution and management in irrigation sector, in-efficiency in water distribution (water losses, theft, channeling etc.), droughts, lack of public participation, lack of latest technologies, lack of co-ordination among organization which are already working in water related issues, improper water supply, lack of water recycling and reuse, ground water contamination, excessive ground water harvesting, subsidies in electricity for tube-wells, ground water pumping, industrial demand, mangrove destruction, lack of understanding of coastal waters and coastal ecosystems, bleaching of corals due to climate change impacts, fishing of endangered species such as some sharks, cutting and lopping of mangrove forests, pollution risks from oil pouring in the sea, discharge of untreated waste in water bodies, lack of collection, disposal and management of domestic and industrial waste, excess use of pesticides and agriculture runoff. keywords: areas; biodiversity; energy; environment; foresight; issues; lack; management; pakistan; panel; pollution; technology; use; waste; water cache: ajeem-1057.pdf plain text: ajeem-1057.txt item: #51 of 78 id: ajeem-1058 author: Wafaa Mohammed Al-Ghanem title: Ecological study on Uyun Layla in Saudi Arabia date: 2019 words: 2203 flesch: 64 summary: plant species grown in each doline have been recorded throughout the time of study. Study area keywords: arabia; area; dolines; lakes; saudi; soil; species; vegetation cache: ajeem-1058.pdf plain text: ajeem-1058.txt item: #52 of 78 id: ajeem-1059 author: R. Jayashree; Shiv O. Prasher; Rajvinder Kaur; Ramanbhai M. Patel title: Effect of soil pH on sorption of salinomycin in clay and sandy soils date: 2019 words: 4261 flesch: 58 summary: Sithole et al. (2003) suggested that antibiotic interaction with soil organic matter occurs as a result of binding to divalent cations, ion exchange interactions, and hydrogen bonding between acidic groups in humic acids and polar groups on salinomycin. It also tended to slightly increase with increasing soil organic matter and clay contents. keywords: clay; hom; matter; salinomycin; sandy; soil; sorption cache: ajeem-1059.pdf plain text: ajeem-1059.txt item: #53 of 78 id: ajeem-1060 author: Ramalingam Manikannan; Subramanian Asokan; Abdul Hameed Mohamed Samsoor Ali title: Seasonal variations of physico-chemical properties of the Great Vedaranyam Swamp, Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary, South-east coast of India date: 2019 words: 3835 flesch: 57 summary: Similarly maximum value in monsoon and minimum value in summer season was also recorded by Satpathy (1996) from coastal waters of Kalpakkam, Prabu et al. (2008) from Pichavaram mangroves, Sundaramanickam et al. (2008) from Parangipettai and Cuddalore coast and Damotharan et al. (2010) from Point Calimere coastal waters, India. Monthly variations of water temperature in different stations during the study period. area. keywords: chemical; coast; figure; india; monsoon; physico; study; water cache: ajeem-1060.pdf plain text: ajeem-1060.txt item: #54 of 78 id: ajeem-1061 author: F. O. Adekayode; D. T. Akomolafe title: Creating a soil data base in a reconnaissance soil fertility study of an encroached forest reserve in Northern Nigeria for a reforestation programme date: 2019 words: 4377 flesch: 63 summary: Forest soils were classified into three groups using soil depth as a limiting parameter in the soil fertility assessment. Soil fertility and management had been found essential to determine the type of forest trees to be planted as tree types influence soil properties (Ritter, 2009; keywords: depth; fertility; forest; map; nigeria; properties; reserve; sampling; soil; table; tree cache: ajeem-1061.pdf plain text: ajeem-1061.txt item: #55 of 78 id: ajeem-1062 author: Balendra Pratap Singh; Ravi Upadhyay title: Ecotourism and its effects on wildlife of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve date: 2019 words: 3029 flesch: 54 summary: The indirect effects are not as conceivable as the direct effects and can cause long-term damage to wildlife habitat which can directly affect the survival of wildlife. (4) Give local people economic incentives to protect wildlife ecosystems. keywords: area; conservation; ecotourism; effects; pachmarhi; people; reserve; species; tourist; wildlife cache: ajeem-1062.pdf plain text: ajeem-1062.txt item: #56 of 78 id: ajeem-1063 author: Ojomo P. A title: Environmental ethics: An African understanding date: 2019 words: 5860 flesch: 38 summary: Given that environmental concerns are global concerns, and that the imperative of environmental ethics is challenging those life-threatening concerns, critical explorations of environmental ethics need to go beyond the Western horizon. But with respect to the African perspective to environmental ethics and the people’s cultural understanding of the environmental crisis, little has been done in this penultimate area. keywords: africa; crisis; environment; ethics; nature; need; ogungbemi; tangwa; theory; value cache: ajeem-1063.pdf plain text: ajeem-1063.txt item: #57 of 78 id: ajeem-1064 author: Rida Lakehal; Lakhdar Djemili; Larbi Houichi title: Nomograms for calculating the safety factor of homogeneous earth dams in long-term stability date: 2019 words: 1939 flesch: 63 summary: Soil strength and slope stability, library of congress cataloguing-in publication data. The value of safety factor SF =1.5 is set as a minimum value to ensure the stability of earth dam in long-term stability (Alonso, 1996; Degoutte, 2002). keywords: nomograms; slope; stability cache: ajeem-1064.pdf plain text: ajeem-1064.txt item: #58 of 78 id: ajeem-1065 author: Swidiq Mugerwa; Moses Nyangito; Denis Mpairwe; John Nderitu title: Effect of biotic and abiotic factors on composition and foraging intensity of subterranean termites date: 2019 words: 6247 flesch: 52 summary: The vegetation and soil variables were analyzed separately in PCA and the selected variables for vegetation and soil were subjected to canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) in XLSTAT (2011). PCA (Pearson type; correlation biplot) of soil variables led to selection of four factors that accounted for 98% of the cumulative variability. keywords: basal; cover; factors; foraging; intensity; litter; macrotermes; quantity; sites; soil; species; termites; variables; vegetation cache: ajeem-1065.pdf plain text: ajeem-1065.txt item: #59 of 78 id: ajeem-1066 author: K. Mogotsi; M. M. Nyangito; D. M. Nyariki title: The perfect drought? Constraints limiting Kalahari agro-pastoral communities from coping and adapting date: 2019 words: 5982 flesch: 57 summary: Like in Bobonong study area, persistence of drought was seen as a constraint (14%). The vulnerability context of a savanna area in Mozambique: Household drought coping strategies and responses to economic change. keywords: area; bobonong; botswana; communities; development; drought; households; kgalagadi; land; livestock; north; rainfall; soil; species; study; water; woody cache: ajeem-1066.pdf plain text: ajeem-1066.txt item: #60 of 78 id: ajeem-1067 author: N. Banadda title: Gaps, barriers and bottlenecks to sustainable land management (SLM) adoption in Uganda date: 2019 words: 6931 flesch: 42 summary: However, IFPRI (2001) also estimated that 97% of Uganda land suffers from some form of human-induced land degradation problems indicating that, the land degradation problem extends far beyond the arable land. The SLM approach should be relevant and acceptable to small-scale farmers who are subsisting on 36% of Uganda land area. keywords: agriculture; degradation; development; economic; environmental; land; land degradation; management; national; policy; practices; resources; slm; soil; uganda; use; water cache: ajeem-1067.pdf plain text: ajeem-1067.txt item: #61 of 78 id: ajeem-1069 author: E. D. Oruonye title: The socio-economic impact of the Lake Chad resettlement scheme, Nigeria date: 2020 words: 3890 flesch: 52 summary: Category D indicates that facilities attracted to the resettlement areas show positive impact (69.5%) or strongly positive impact (8.3%) and no impact observed (21%) and negative impact observed (1.2%). The socio-economic impact of the resettlement scheme on land and natural resources (Category A = RESOURCE) and the socio-economic impact of the resettlement project use on the environment (Category C = USE) have majority of the respondents under no impact observed, negative impact or strong negative impacts. keywords: category; environment; facilities; impact; resettlement; resettlement scheme; scheme; socio cache: ajeem-1069.pdf plain text: ajeem-1069.txt item: #62 of 78 id: ajeem-1071 author: Dieudonne Alemagi title: Sustainable development in Cameroon’s forestry sector: Progress, challenges, and strategies for improvement date: 2020 words: 5725 flesch: 50 summary: Estimated at 19,631,000 hectares (Mbile et al., 2008), Cameroon forests - which contain high value tropical tree species like Baillonella toxisperma and Milicia excels - is part of the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin (Figure 1) in Central Africa and products emanating from these forests contributed to 19.8% of Cameroon’s merchandised exports between 1990 and 2000 (Lebedys, 2004; Alemagi and Kozak, 2010; Alemagi, 2010a). Nguemdjom (2006) notes that timber extraction from most forest concessions in Cameroon is unsustainable from an ecological point of view, with estimates of the annual forest loss of Cameroon forests being 1%. keywords: alemagi; cameroon; communities; community; forest; forestry; government; kozak; logging; management; minfof; oyono; sector cache: ajeem-1071.pdf plain text: ajeem-1071.txt item: #63 of 78 id: ajeem-1075 author: Baatuuwie, N. B; Ir. Louise Van Leeuwen title: Evaluation of three classifiers in mapping forest stand types using medium resolution imagery: A case study in the Offinso Forest District, Ghana date: 2020 words: 4868 flesch: 51 summary: There is need to identify an effective classification/mapping procedure that will discriminate between these forest cover types with least cost and human intervention (Franklin, 2001), if reliable estimates of forest cover are to be made frequently over large geographical areas over time for strategic forestry planning and decision making (Dees et al., 2003). Spectral angle mapper relatively has poorer performance in mapping various categories of forest cover. keywords: accuracy; area; classification; classifier; cover; decision; forest; likelihood; spectral; training; tree; types cache: ajeem-1075.pdf plain text: ajeem-1075.txt item: #64 of 78 id: ajeem-1077 author: Cenk Ceyhun Kılıç; Dilek Anaç; Uygun Aksoy; Süer Anaç title: Purslane and natural vegetation as bioremediation tools to cope salinity in Satsuma mandarin orchards date: 2020 words: 3794 flesch: 56 summary: The objective of this study is to compare the Na and Cl removal capacity of natural vegetation (spontaneous flora) and cultivated purslane, as bioremediation techniques to overcome salinity in Satsuma mandarin plantations. Biomass yields of the tested alternatives (natural vegetation and purslane) and their Na, Cl, K and Ca concentrations were measured. keywords: citrange; mandarin; purslane; salinity; satsuma; trifoliata; vegetation cache: ajeem-1077.pdf plain text: ajeem-1077.txt item: #65 of 78 id: ajeem-1079 author: K. B. Mmolawa; A. S. Likuku; G. K. Gaboutloeloe title: Assessment of heavy metal pollution in soils along major roadside areas in Botswana date: 2020 words: 5219 flesch: 62 summary: Full Length Research Paper Assessment of heavy metal pollution in soils along major roadside areas in Botswana K. B. Mmolawa1*, A. S. Likuku2 and G. K. Gaboutloeloe1 1 Department of Agricultural Engineering and Land Planning, Botswana College of Agriculture, Private Bag 0027, Gaborone, Botswana. The present study assessed heavy metal pollution in soils using locally determined background values for metal concentrations, employing in-depth heavy metal analysis using four different approaches. keywords: contamination; enrichment; factor; metals; pollution; roadside; soils cache: ajeem-1079.pdf plain text: ajeem-1079.txt item: #66 of 78 id: ajeem-1081 author: Lekeufack Martin; Fonkou Théophile; Pamo Tedonkeng Etienne; Amougou Akoa title: Removal of faecal bacteria and nutrients from domestic wastewater in a horizontal surface flow wetland vegetated with Echinochloa pyramidalis date: 2021 words: 5569 flesch: 57 summary: In the contrary, there was no significant difference in the removal rates of faecal indicators between vegetated wetland and the non-vegetated control during the dry season of the second year. Hitchc. & chase, a forage plant used in constructed wetlands treatment of faecal sludge and wastewater. keywords: bacteria; coliforms; control; et al; inflow; non; outflow; parameters; removal; season; total; treatment; wastewater; wetlands; year cache: ajeem-1081.pdf plain text: ajeem-1081.txt item: #67 of 78 id: ajeem-1082 author: Hao Zhang; Ying Xu; Yifeng Ding; Qingxiang Yang; Siwei Ren; Xueling Li; Xuanyu Chen; Yuanyuan Xu; Hongxin Hao title: Molecular diversity analysis of planctomycete like bacteria in inosine fermentation and municipal wastewater treatment systems date: 2021 words: 4024 flesch: 52 summary: Based on the DGGE profile, the diversities of the bacteria in different wastewater treatment samples were significantly different, but they were far lower than that in other reports on wastewater treatment systems (Alexandre et al., 2009; Liu et al., 2007) due to the planctomycete specific primer being used in the first round of PCR. While the two samples from the anaerobic and the aerobic tank of municipal wastewater treatment plant reached 66%. keywords: anaerobic; analysis; bacteria; dgge; pcr; planctomycete; plant; samples; sludge; treatment; wastewater cache: ajeem-1082.pdf plain text: ajeem-1082.txt item: #68 of 78 id: ajeem-1083 author: P. K. T. Munishi; S. Mringi; D. D. Shirima; S. K. Linda title: The role of the Miombo Woodlands of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania as carbon sinks date: 2021 words: 4878 flesch: 60 summary: Percent contribution to ecosystem carbon by the most dominant species in Miombo woodlands at Longisonte Reserve in Mbozi District, Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Total contributions to ecosystem carbon by the stem and branches of the most dominant species in Miombo woodlands at Longisonte and Zelezeta forest reserves in Mbozi District, Southern Highlands of Tanzania. keywords: biomass; carbon; ecosystems; forest; management; miombo; munishi; species; storage; tanzania; tree; woodlands cache: ajeem-1083.pdf plain text: ajeem-1083.txt item: #69 of 78 id: ajeem-1084 author: Vagner Santiago do Vale; Ivan Schiavini; Ana Paula de Oliveira; André Eduardo Gusson title: When ecological functions are more important than richness: A conservation approach date: 2022 words: 7112 flesch: 62 summary: The most abundant group in the semi-deciduous forest was G1, which occupied lower communities (shade tolerant and perennial), whereas G4 for deciduous forest was anemochoric and autochoric of superior community strata that is light demanding. Key words: Complementarity, deciduous forest, dry forest, functional diversity, functional groups, semi- deciduous forest. keywords: abundance; differences; diversity; ecol; ecosystem; figure; forests; functions; groups; number; plant; species cache: ajeem-1084.pdf plain text: ajeem-1084.txt item: #70 of 78 id: ajeem-1085 author: Saeed Mohammadi; Gholamreza Naderi title: New report from presence and distribution of Allactaga firouzi in Iran date: 2022 words: 1158 flesch: 60 summary: He showed a negative correlation between vegetation cover and A. hotsoni occurrence in Kavir National Park. No additional data on A. firouzi was published since its first description by Womochel. keywords: firouzi; jerboa; species cache: ajeem-1085.pdf plain text: ajeem-1085.txt item: #71 of 78 id: ajeem-1086 author: Diogo S. B. Rocha; Leilton S. Damascena; Flávio França title: Adaptive success index: A criterion for identifying most important species date: 2022 words: 797 flesch: 48 summary: CONCLUSION AND USES Adaptive success indexes, particularly the one based on the vegetation cover, can provide the analyses of vegetation indexes with a quantitative approach on the contribution of vegetation structure to reflectance values. Key words: Adaptive Success Index (ASI), Importance Value Index (IVI), Cover Value Index (CVI). keywords: index; species; value cache: ajeem-1086.pdf plain text: ajeem-1086.txt item: #72 of 78 id: ajeem-1087 author: Mauro Lenzi title: Resuspension of sediment as a method for managing shallow eutrophic lagoons date: 2022 words: 3353 flesch: 51 summary: Biogeochemical effects of disturbance in shallow water sediment by macroalgae harvesting boats. In laboratory experiments on deep water sediments, Koschinsky et al. (2001) did not find increases in dissolved organic carbon, heavy metals, nutrients or microbiological activity as a result of adsorption by resuspended sediment matter. keywords: column; disturbance; effects; et al; marine; matter; resuspension; sediment; water cache: ajeem-1087.pdf plain text: ajeem-1087.txt item: #73 of 78 id: ajeem-1088 author: Tchobsala; Amougou Akoa; Mbolo Marie title: Impact of wood cuts on the structure and floristic diversity of vegetation in the peri-urban zone of Ngaoundere, Cameroon date: 2022 words: 12647 flesch: 66 summary: Diameter (cm) Categories Shrubby Savanna Raised savanna Wooded savanna 0-10 E et F 1852 1256 1186 10-20 D 1430 1247 1160 20-50 C 736 490 741 50-100 B 6 30 138 >100 A 0 10 76 the shrubby and wooded savannas. Experimental device The experimental device installed in 2004 was a split-study with 3 factors (shrubby savannas, raised savannas and wooded savannas) (Table 1). keywords: cuts; density; heights; ngaoundéré; number; regeneration; savannas; seedlings; shrubby; shrubby savannas; species; stems; stems.ha; structure; table; trees; types; vegetation; wood cuts; year cache: ajeem-1088.pdf plain text: ajeem-1088.txt item: #74 of 78 id: ajeem-1089 author: Bilal Ahmad Wani; Amina Khan title: Effect of cement dust pollution on the vascular cambium of Juglans regia (L.) date: 2023 words: 3313 flesch: 67 summary: The length of fusiform initials ranges from 363 to 414 µm under normal growth conditions and 327 to 378 µm under cement dust pollution. The present study reveals that there is reduction in dimensions and proportions of fusiform and ray initials in Juglans regia growing under impact of cement dust pollution. keywords: cambium; fusiform; ghouse; initials; iqbal; khan; pollution; ray; trees; wood cache: ajeem-1089.pdf plain text: ajeem-1089.txt item: #75 of 78 id: ajeem-1090 author: Bilal Ahmad Wani; Amina Khan title: Effect of cement dust pollution on the vascular cambium of Juglans regia (L.) date: 2023 words: 3313 flesch: 67 summary: The length of fusiform initials ranges from 363 to 414 µm under normal growth conditions and 327 to 378 µm under cement dust pollution. The present study reveals that there is reduction in dimensions and proportions of fusiform and ray initials in Juglans regia growing under impact of cement dust pollution. keywords: cambium; fusiform; ghouse; initials; iqbal; khan; pollution; ray; trees; wood cache: ajeem-1090.pdf plain text: ajeem-1090.txt item: #76 of 78 id: ajeem-1091 author: M. A. Mohammed-Aslam; A. Balasubramanian title: History of river channel modifications - A review date: 2023 words: 4884 flesch: 58 summary: River channel change: Problems of interpretation illustrated by the River Derwent, North Yokshire. Review History of river channel modifications - keywords: aslam; basin; cauvery; changes; deposits; et al; geol; india; modifications; mohammed; palaeochannels; plain; remote; resources; river; sensing; soc cache: ajeem-1091.pdf plain text: ajeem-1091.txt item: #77 of 78 id: ajeem-1092 author: Parveen Kumar Dobhal; Ravinder Kumar Kohli; Daizy Rani Batish title: Effects of Lantana camara Invasion on Riparian Vegetation in Uttarakhand: A Case Study from the Garhwal Himalayas date: 2024 words: 7681 flesch: 64 summary: Several factors like high reproductive potential, absence of preferred predators, evergreen nature and sufficient moisture provided by river water favour extraordinary growth of L. camara in this area. There was also an impression that L. camara favoured exotics over endemic species in this riparian zone. keywords: africa; area; asia; basal; camara; china; density; diversity; exotics; india; invasion; l. camara; lantana; localities; non; number; plant; species; tropical cache: ajeem-1092.pdf plain text: ajeem-1092.txt item: #78 of 78 id: ajeem-1093 author: O. O. Ogunsina; M. O. Oladimeji; L. Lajide title: Plant Extracts as Natural Insecticides: A Study on Bean and Maize Weevils date: 2024 words: 3817 flesch: 62 summary: African nutmeg extract was able to record 100% insect mortality with 10 g/100 ml of its extract at 1, 6, 12, 18 and 24 h of insect treatment, while L. camara had 93.3% and Enu-opirih had 46.70% all with 10 g/ 100 ml, only after 24 h of treatment. African nutmeg hexane extract had the highest yield followed by Enu-opiri and L. camara respectively. keywords: african; bean; extract; maize; mortality; nutmeg; weevil cache: ajeem-1093.pdf plain text: ajeem-1093.txt