Knowledge of flow exchange between surface and groundwater is of great importance for use of water resources. The determination of seepage between a stream and an underlying aquifer requires an accurate estimation of the river stage and of the head in the aquifer. An approach is...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i330106
Ojeh, N. Vincent, Oruonye, D. Emeka, Arisabor, Lucky, Jutum, Felix, Dovo John, Mubwi, Israel, Audu, Grace, Daniel Samuel, Bawa, Winnie, J. Joseph, Monday & Semaka, Shedrach·International Journal of Environment and Climate Change·2019
The study assessed the two days episodic rainstorm event that destroyed buildings and led to loss of life in April and May 2018 in Taraba State, northeast Nigeria. Data were from primary and secondary sources. A total of 60 copies of research questionnaires and interviews were us...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i330104
Climate change and global warming which is also known as a change in Earth’s overall climate or rising temperature have taken centre stage in international concerns, several fora and treaties have been observed with a view of stemming trend, in rising temperatures. This study eva...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i330105
Introduction: Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a significant climatic variable and defined as how hot the "surface" of the Earth would feel to the physical touch in a particular location. A spatial analysis of the land surface temperature with respect to different land use/cover...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i330103
Climate change poses significant threats to global food security and water resources. In a present study, a Global Climate Model HAD GEM2-ES under RCPs 4.5 and 8.5 was used for climate prediction study. The study spanned 46 years of baseline (1970-2015) as well as two future peri...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i230102
The aims of the current paper are to provide an extensive review of the theoretical and empirical evidence on which current climate change mitigation efforts are based and to advance a new model of the determinants of mitigation behavior. The study was based on the review of rele...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i230101
Globally, addressing poverty levels and inequality remained one of the topmost priorities and has been accorded the first position in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although Ghana as a whole is faring well in poverty reduction over the past decades, poverty levels and...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i230100
The study examined Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Land Surface Emissivity (LSE) in a tropical coastal city of Port Harcourt and its environs. Satellite remote sensing of multiple-wavelength origin was employed to derive data from the Landsat Enhance Thematic Mapper (ETM+). St...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i230099
In the framework of the community participation in conservation in Rwanda, a women handcraft cooperative was established in 2011 in the surrounding of Nyungwe National Park in Kitabi sector and Nyamagabe District. It aimed to empower economically and socially wives of former hunt...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i230098
The internal organization of reef-fish communities, particularly the species richness and the hierarchical structuring of species abundances, depends on many environmental factors, including fishing intensity and proportion of macroalgal cover which are expected to have determina...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i130097