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
Elysée Ntiranyibagira, Francois Xavier Naramabuye, Thacienne Uwilingiyimana, Fabien Muhirwa, Andrew Kibogo, Gloriose Umuziranenge, Isaac Kayumba & Concorde Nsengumuremyi·International Journal of Environment and Climate Change·2019
In Africa, the important agro-pastoral activity and poverty in rural areas lead to strong anthropogenic pressures on protected areas and to their quick degradation. Therefore the efficient conservation and sustainable exploitation of protected areas require adaptive and dynamic m...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i130096
To adapt to the emergent global climate impacts, the local communities of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts in South-Western Bangladesh have spontaneously promoted a number of social innovation using their innovative ideas and traditional knowledge. The present study highli...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i130093
Aims: This paper investigates the spatial distribution of mosquito breeding sites within the Dakhla oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt. Study Design: GIS spatial analysis was used to map the area under risk of mosquito proliferation. Place and Duration of Study: Dakhla oases,...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i130094
The phenomenon of non-significant trends in ice-off date under a warming climate was quantitatively explained by three efforts: exploring possible driving factors where possible and defining new factors to represent snow conditions, identifying the contributing factors through c...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i130095
The Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP) is an environmentally susceptible, communally momentous and economically tactical sphere of India where landscape, ground water and soil fertility are threatened by climate change. An increasing water scarcity for rice in the irrigated IGP is urging...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2018/v8i430092
Using the acronym POETICAS, we explore eight major facets of humankind’s relationship with the natural environment. We make the case that, while they are not mutually exclusive, they are nonetheless analytically distinct. We explore the roles of: 1) Population & demography; 2...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2018/v8i327171