About half of the people that live in developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water and 73% have no sanitation, thus some of their wastes contaminate their drinking water supply leading to a high level of suffering. In view of the foregoing, this study was carrie...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25615
Freshwater springs and natural hot-water springs, alpine, subalpine lakes and the Mediterranean temporary ponds in Mt Oiti and Mt Kallidromos, coastal lakes, lagoons and marshes in the coastal zones of Maliakos gulf, and the protected wetlands that exist in the area of River Sper...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26760
Municipal waste generation and management is a global phenomenon. This paper has critically examined the trends in waste generation and management in Nigerian urban areas. Drawing largely from related works reviewed, the paper has discovered that the rate of waste generation is 2...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26469
It already exists several three-dimensional models dealing with groundwater circulation in karst systems. However, few of them are able either to give a large scale prediction of the repartition of the flow conduits or to make a comparison with real field data. Therefore, our obj...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26688
The study assesses the effects of CO2 emissions on temperature in Nigeria. To actualize this, CO2 and temperature data were generated from field survey of Nigerian cities. Testo 350 flue gas analyzer was used to determine the CO2 in the urban atmospheric environment, while the Ca...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25669
This work investigates the radio refractivity over Awka, South Eastern Nigeria using meteorological parameters of surface air temperature, pressure and relative humidity collected from 2013 – 2014 respectively, using Davis weather station vantage pro 2 (with Integrated Sensor S...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25880
Exponential growth in urban populations has steadily transformed the volume and composition of wastes generated in developing countries in the past few decades. One of the most visible aspects of such transformation is the ubiquity of plastic packaging residues in the waste strea...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25541
The present study is aimed to investigate the distribution and migration of the heavy metals in both ground water and soil profile in Peenya Industrial area. The Peenya Industrial area is considered to be one of the largest and oldest Industrial Area in the South-East Asia. Hence...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26361
Climate observations are essential for understanding the complexities of the global climate system; indeed virtually all breakthroughs that have been made in understanding climate have come from observations. Observations provide critical benchmarks for testing and further develo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25958
The Egyptian northern Deltaic lakes including Burullus Lake suffer from pollution of intensive agri culture, domestic and industrial activities. The objective of this research was to evaluate water and sediment quality in Burullus Lake based on certain physical and chemical chara...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23311
This research considers the support provided by remote sensing and GIS methods for the delineation of potential sites susceptible to natural hazards such as earthquakes, flash floods and karst phenomena in the Black Hills area in South Dakota and Wyoming, USA. By an integration o...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24388
Vertisols are one of the most fertile soils in the tropics but crop production is often limited by physical features related to shrink-swell movement under different moisture conditions making management strategies mostly tilted towards soil moisture control. However, most crops...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24906
Terrain analysis is useful in so many areas ranging from military operations to landuse and agricultural planning, urban planning, forestry management, drainage, hydrology and site suitability assessment of agricultural, settlement, industrial and transportation projects. Gombe S...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/22674
Nowadays, Web-based Land Information System is important to learn about the use of Geographic Information Systems and software for our profession. Modern technologies like geo-data processing, earth observation data processing and analysis are needed for Sri Lankan young research...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/20748
Use of enrichment, ecological risk and contamination factors with geo-accumulation indexes were employed to evaluate the Content of Cd, Cu, and Ni in the soils around Ameka mining area, South of Abakaliki, Nigeria. Ecological risk indices and contamination indexes namely, enrichm...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24908