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Stakeholders are often required to make judgments and decisions about the tradeoffs between multiple competing objectives inherent in any engineering design. Design optimization can provide decision support fo...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:20
Published on: 30 August 2016
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Produced water from offshore oil and gas platforms is often disposed of directly into the sea, and there has been concern that this discharge might have deleterious effects on the marine environment. To help u...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:19
Published on: 7 July 2016
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Land use changes from forests to farmland and grazing land and subsequent changes in soil physical and chemical properties that results in soil fertility decline are widespread activities in Ethiopia. Particul...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:18
Published on: 4 June 2016
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The hazards of pesticide exposure have been a growing concern globally. The increase of susceptibility of farmers to pesticide intoxication is due to lack of knowledge regarding safe and proper pesticide handl...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:17
Published on: 27 April 2016
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The primary reason to study summer monsoon (long rain season) all over Ethiopia was due to the atmospheric circulation displays a spectacular annual cycle of rainfall in which more than 80 % of the annual rain...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:16
Published on: 14 April 2016
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Many years of gold mining in Ghana has generated huge environmental legacy issues, particularly contamination from heavy metals and metalloids. The present study evaluated the contamination from arsenic (As), ...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:15
Published on: 12 April 2016
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Climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing our world in recent decades. As Ethiopia is dependent on rain–fed agriculture, it becomes one of the most vulnerable countries to climate chan...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:14
Published on: 22 March 2016
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Farmers apply several and often different farmer-specific strategies to cope with and adapt to the perceived trend of declining rainfall and crop productivity. A better understanding of the factors affecting f...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:13
Published on: 15 March 2016
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The main purpose of this paper was to identify the status of rural women to access and control over land in East Gojjam since 1974. Despite measures taken to ensure gender equality in land ownership since 1974...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:12
Published on: 11 March 2016
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Ethiopia has huge water resource potential. However, it contributed little to access to clean and safe drinking water supply and socio-economic development. The objective of this study was to assess water acce...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:11
Published on: 5 March 2016
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Pests and diseases are recognised as major factors responsible for the decline in cocoa yield in Ghana. This has resulted in an increased use of pesticides to increase productivity. The regular application and...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:10
Published on: 1 March 2016
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Generalized linear models (GLM) are widely used to model social, medical and ecological data. Choosing predictors for building a good GLM is a widely studied problem. Likelihood based procedures like Akaike In...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:9
Published on: 24 February 2016
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This study was aimed at examining land use/cover changes over 48 years and its causative factors in the Gumara watershed of Lake Tana basin, Northwestern Ethiopia. Two sets of aerial photograph (1957 and 1985)...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:8
Published on: 17 February 2016
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Agriculture is the most susceptible sector to climate change related hazards. Unusual temperature and rainfall occurrence in terms of amount and distribution usually lead to poor harvest and/or complete crop f...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:7
Published on: 16 February 2016
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Climate variability causes enormous suffering particularly on rural farmers’ whose livelihoods depend largely on rain-fed agriculture. Ethiopia in general the Dera woreda in particular is not an exception in ...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:6
Published on: 11 February 2016
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Short term current prediction for operational purposes is commonly carried out with the help of numerical ocean circulation models. The numerical models have advantage that they are based on the physics of the...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:4
Published on: 1 February 2016
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Mercury (Hg) used in gold amalgamation is a major source of contamination in developing countries. The present study evaluates the concentrations of total mercury in water, sediment and fish from the Ankobra a...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:5
Published on: 1 February 2016
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Phosphorus is believed to be the second most limiting nutrient for crop growth and development in acidic soils. It is mainly because the amount of P in the soil is inherently low and part of it is fixed and ma...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:3
Published on: 1 February 2016
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Bangladesh is widely recognized to be one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world and climate change issues are being one of the major focuses of the government and other development agencies of ...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:2
Published on: 26 January 2016
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Water is a vital resource for human survival. Safe drinking water is a basic need for good health, and it is also a basic right of humans. The aim of this study was to analysis drinking water quality and its e...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:1
Published on: 21 January 2016
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Air quality is well recognized as a contributing factor for various physical phenomena and as a public health risk factor. Consequently, there is a need for an accurate way to measure the level of exposure to...
Environmental Systems Research 2015 4:26
Published on: 22 December 2015
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To identify and quantify the impact of climate change on socio-economic sectors and ecosystems, many global studies have been carried out and policy changes for mitigation and adaptation were recommended. Howe...
Environmental Systems Research 2015 4:25
Published on: 9 December 2015
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Photovoltaic (PV) array which is composed of modules is considered as the fundamental power conversion unit of a PV generator system. The PV array has nonlinear characteristics and it is quite expensive and ta...
Environmental Systems Research 2015 4:24
Published on: 9 December 2015
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The global changes that are currently threatening the natural environment demand appropriate answers and solutions by the environmental science community. The increasing amount of heterogeneous data—Big Data—n...
Environmental Systems Research 2015 4:23
Published on: 25 November 2015
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This retrospective study was aimed to examine the distribution of some physicochemical parameters and its health impact in selected drinking water sources of Ethiopia. The study used 983 water samples collecte...
Environmental Systems Research 2015 4:22
Published on: 25 November 2015
