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The land use plays a crucial role for a particular watershed along with many other identified and accepted factors. Momentarily, land cover practices are unorganised in most river basins of Nepal. The study ai...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:19
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Land use/land cover (LU/LC) change is the challenging and continuous drivers of environment change. Understanding the rate and process of change is, therefore, basic for managing the environment. This study wa...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:17
Published on: 24 July 2017
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This study assessed the health and environmental impacts of artisanal gold mining in Ijesha-land, Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria. Fifty-four environmental samples were collected between 2011 and 2012 and ana...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:18
Published on: 12 July 2017
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Land resource management measures, such as soil bund, trench, check dams and plantation had been practiced in Melaka watershed, Ethiopia since 2010. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of above...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:16
Published on: 14 June 2017
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The present study introduces an alternate tool of laboratory analysis named Soil Health Card (SHC) for soil quality monitoring and routine field observations by farmers.
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:15
Published on: 13 June 2017
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Effectiveness of Rhizobium inoculation is determined by common bean genotypes. Environmental factors also affect common bean genotypes-Rhizobium-symbiosis. The effect of common bean genotypes-Rhizobium strains-en...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:14
Published on: 8 May 2017
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Pure water is an absolutely necessary component of the earth not only for life but also for sustainable socio-economic development of today’s civilization. The aim of this study was to analysis the quality of ...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:13
Published on: 17 April 2017
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Water quality problems are one of the manifestations of poverty and most developing countries including Ethiopia suffering a lot of health problems associated with consumption of contaminated water. Although c...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:12
Published on: 4 April 2017
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The semi-arid Ijara experienced erratic and declining rainfall whereas temperature increased, triggering extreme weather events shocks. Given the shocks that outwitted traditional coping mechanisms, pastoralis...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:11
Published on: 27 March 2017
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Elsewhere in other developing countries, and 85% of the Ethiopian population is living in rural part of the country and more than 90% of domestic energy source is dependent of traditional biofuel. Increase in ...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:10
Published on: 14 February 2017
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This paper presents a deep-dive examination of the cross-boundary data practices of natural resources and environmental scientists in the context of Virginia Tech’s institutional visioning and strategic develo...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:9
Published on: 6 February 2017
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This study analysed the relationship between agroforestry and non-farm income diversification activities. A survey was conducted on 136 farm households by employing both structured and semi-structured question...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:8
Published on: 31 January 2017
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Soil erosion in the Ethiopian highlands is considered to be one of the major problems threatening agricultural development and food security in the country. However, knowledge about the forces driving the long...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:7
Published on: 26 January 2017
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This research was carried out from October 2013 to May 2014. Hippopotamus amphibious is a mammalian species distributed in different lakes and rivers where ecological requirements are fulfilled for its survival. ...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:6
Published on: 18 January 2017
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Composting is one of the integrated waste management strategies used for the recycling of organic wastes into a useful product. Composting methods vary in duration of decomposition and potency of stability, ma...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:5
Published on: 14 January 2017
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The demand for meeting local food production has caused farmlands to expand at the cost of natural forests and grasslands in the Ethiopian highlands. However, empirical evidences on rate and patterns of LULC ...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:4
Published on: 14 January 2017
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Faecal matter biochar offers an interesting value proposition where the pyrolysis process guaranties a 100% pathogen elimination, as well as significant reduction in transport and storage weight and volume. Th...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:2
Published on: 10 January 2017
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The appropriate management of oil sand tailings requires a reduced environmental footprint of the waste containment facilities. This study models the short-term dewatering behavior of a 10 m deep deposit.
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:3
Published on: 10 January 2017
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Soil erosion is among the most challenging and continuous environmental problems in the highlands of Ethiopia. This study was conducted in the Geleda watershed of the Blue Nile basin in the northwestern highla...
Environmental Systems Research 2017 6:1
Published on: 6 January 2017
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Agriculture is the most susceptible sector to climate change related hazards in Ethiopia. Any minor change in temperature from the normal conditions imposes a severe challenge on the agricultural dependent peo...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:26
Published on: 5 December 2016
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This paper proposes the dynamic way of utilizing the maximum power from solar for battery charger by means of maximum power point tracker with the new controlling parameter for improving the stability in power...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:25
Published on: 14 November 2016
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Understanding the landscape features of agricultural lands and soil management practices is pertinent to verify the potential and limitations of the soil resources; and devise relevant land management strategi...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:24
Published on: 10 November 2016
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Globalization and rapid industrialization was inevitable during late nineteenth century considering the demand–supply deficit and requirements of evolving societies. However, at later stage these factors were ...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:23
Published on: 18 October 2016
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Low soil fertility is recognized as the major constraint to food production and food security in Ghana. An important practice that restores some level of fertility is long fallow, however this is no longer pra...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:22
Published on: 3 October 2016
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This study investigated the prevention of stack corrosion under wet flue gas desulfurization conditions in a coal-fired power plant. The performance analysis and comparative studies of six materials for the pr...
Environmental Systems Research 2016 5:21
Published on: 31 August 2016
