Anuradhapura district is one of the largest agricultural crop production areas in Sri Lanka. But it is often affected by droughts and droughts caused severe damage for agricultural industry. Thus it is very important to identify the drought characteristics (drought duration and d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/14482
In this research, desertification hazard has been analyzed by resilience range over eastern north of Iran. In this research was assumed that resilience of ecosystem refers to inherent properties of ecosystem. Soil erodibility, rainfall erosivity, topography and land cover- a refl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/12353
The objective of this study is to evaluate the possibility of recycling the liquid product obtained from sewage sludge by the hydrothermal treatment as a kind of organic fertilizer and its effect on the plant growth. A small scale hydrothermal treatment experiment was performed a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/11636
In this paper, we examine the association between climate change and outbreak probability of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) in birds. Climate change is a potential factor for the recent spread of H5N1 outbreaks because it can directly alter the conditions i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/8888
The topography effects on vegetation biomass under climate change impact have been ignored in prairie regions as it is not as significant as in mountain areas. This paper aims to investigate the topographic effects on vegetation biomass under climate change in semiarid Canadian m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/11146
Climate change, population growth, migration, urbanisation, and ageing infrastructure will all impose significant strains on the urban water services in Europe, and cities across Europe will experience increasingly frequent shortfalls in supply/demand balance. It is widely accept...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/4533
Aims: To examine the utility of open data for flood mapping of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region and Chao Phraya River basin. The region is particularly vulnerable to flooding, having experienced recurrent major flooding events, including the some of the most extensive and prolonge...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/11872
The objective of this study was to investigate precipitation trends in climatic stations in eastern Slovakia. We investigated 20 climatic stations in Slovakia. The studied period was from 1981 to 2010. Monthly precipitation trends were detected by nonparametric Mann-Kendall stati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/10655
Aims: This study ascertained the joint influences of climate factors, poverty and macroeconomic environment on agricultural export performance in Nigeria. Study Design: The study is a survey based on time series data. Place and Duration of Study: Secondary data covering 32 years...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/8575
This study investigated and analyzed the determinants of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission in Nigeria. The study relied on secondary data from World Bank and Central Bank of Nigeria covering 40 years (1970-2009). The data were analyzed using Zellner’s Seemingly Unrelated Regression (...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/8576