The ability of a water body to self-purify itself is dependent on its re-aeration rate (Ka). This rate is necessary to calculate the dissolved oxygen content in the waterbody. This rate also depends on some variables that include the stream velocity, stream bed slope, cross secti...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i430130
Proportion of area under different crops and change therein remains a concern before policymakers, researcher, public policy analysts and, academia like geographers. As cropping pattern determines food security, internal consumption demand and export of crops, sustainable croppin...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i430132
It is the Boston Consulting Group’s 15th annual report called ‘Winning the Growth Game: Global Wealth 2015’ that has been extensively reported by the media persons in India. This report came just one year after the Global Wealth Databook 2014 from Credit Suisse wherein the pictur...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i330128
The samples collected from an oil spilled sites in Bodo West in Gokana Local Government of Rivers State in Nigeria were isolated to identify microorganisms associated with bioremediation. The population of about 311 different forming colonies were recorded in the study area; out...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i330129
The natural heritage is defined and accepted as the set of physico-geographic and biocenotic (floristic, faunistic) components and structures of the natural environment, whose ecological, economic, scientific, biogenic, sanogenic, landscape, recreational and cultural-historic sig...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i330127
This study focused on finding of freshwater molluscs in Holocene sediments outcropping in western Eritrea. Three species of gastropods were found in calcareous sediments at the bank of a tributary river named Shatera River, within the license of Bisha Mines, they are Melanoides t...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i330126
Poverty, vulnerability as well as rural livelihoods are all complex and dynamic themes making it difficult to achieve. Households may respond differently to risk depending on factors such as the household’s socio-economic class, its lifecycle stage, its exposure to risk, its asse...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i230124
The present study is concerned with the analysis of landform characteristics of Salda River basin and its impact on agriculture land use pattern. The Salda basin is one of the sub-basins of Subarnarekha River, with diversified landscape pattern in the western part of Purulia dist...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i330125
The land is a delineable area of the earth's surface, encompassing all attributes of the biosphere immediately above or below this surface. Physical characteristics of the land determine agricultural land use. Among them, relief and slope play an important role. Aim of this study...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i230123
The spatial-temporal seismicity in Aliakmona river area is presented for the period 1974-2010 (NW Greece). This study area, which was classified as low seismicity, presents a particular interest due to the unexpected strong earthquake of Ms=6.6 which occurred between the cities o...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i230122