Aims: The objective of this research is to understand and analyze the trend of water resources and its effects on land subsidence, vegetation cover change, and water supply reservoir drawdown in Beijing, China. Study Design: This research combined both field monitoring data and r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/13861
Aims: To develop a modelling methodology for evaluating the cumulative stormwater performance of Low Impact Development technologies on a watershed basis to address stormwater impacts of urban development. Study Design: A method is presented to perform hydrological modelling on l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/11578
Aims: In recent decades, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, frequently has been affected by local floods and inundation from heavy rainfall. Conventional flood mitigation measures such as building flood gates and upgrading sewerage systems have been implemented but problems persist. The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/11534
Aims: A personal computer version of the Stormwater Management Model (PCSWMM) was applied to seamlessly link urban runoff, sanitary flow, pump station operations, and a natural wastewater treatment wetland in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as a step towards developing a planning tool that...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/12101
Aims: The study of urban heat islands and traditionally relies on simplistic descriptors such as “urban” and “rural”. While these descriptors may be evocative of the landscape, they are insufficient in providing information like its site properties which have direct impacts on th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/13051
Aim: This research examines the economic impacts of drought severity and duration to interdependent production sectors in an urban catchment. Methodology: We developed a dynamic water input-output model extension to analyze the drought vulnerability and resilience of economic sec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/9872
Aims: This paper presents a study on the development of a 2-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic model based on TELEMAC-2D for the flood simulation of the river from Kratie to Kampong Cham in Cambodia, a part of the Mekong River. The motivation behind the research was to study the feasi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/12885
In order to study the influence of the hydrothermal treatment technology (HTT) on macro/micro nutrients extraction from two types of chicken manure (broiler chicken manure (BCM) and laying hen chicken manure (LCM)), hydrothermal treatment followed by the solid/liquid separation o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/15434
Groundwater contributes a significant proportion of stream flow, and its contribution varies temporally throughout the year. The objective of this study was to investigate the temporal dynamics of groundwater contribution to stream flow under the effects of climate and land use c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/14218
Groundwater is still an important water source for many parts of the world, especially in countries such as Sri Lanka, because, despite a huge government investment to divert some of the rivers to dry areas, there are many areas which this river water cannot reach, and hence a la...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/16018