Lakes provide many services to humanity. However human activities affect negatively the function of the lakes to deliver their values to society. It is in this sense, this study tried to assess the effects of human activities on the dryland lake (Lake Guidimouni) mostly, the effe...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i12653
Life is not possible without water, so we need to supply enough water to sustain well in life. Insufficiency of clean water is a major problem for urban communities today. For this reason, it is necessary to estimate the required amount of water. Thisissue will be slowly reduced...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i12652
In many of Africa's emerging nations, open defecation continues to pose a serious threat to public health and the environment. 946 million people worldwide still use open defecation, and there are around 2.4 billion people without access to better sanitation. Therefore, the purpo...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i12651
In the last two decades scrutiny of several retrospective occupational studies on performed by NIOSH in the early 2000’s on ambient indoor air exposures to the flavoring chemical diacetyl and more complex butter flavoring formulations has led to a reported association between dia...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i12650
A socio-ecological system is a bio-geo-physical system that is inextricably linked to society and ecosystems, and in urban ecological science, a balance between the natural environment and human society and culture is sought. Migration is a common reason for population growth in...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i12646
The study assessed the flood vulnerability of developed properties (DP) in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers State, Nigeria. The study made use of DP data obtained from the open street map, and the combination of landuse/ landcover map obtained from Landsat imagery of 2020, soil t...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i11645
Flooding is a disaster which may occur naturally or as an effect of human activities. Flooding which is a global hazard has resulted in devastating effects on humans and the environment. Thousands of lives are lost and properties worth several millions of dollars are destroyed an...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i11644
The study entails determination of Total Hydrocarbon Content (THC) and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) in borehole water of Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. This was assessed using standard analytical methods. The samples were collected in triplicate from t...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i11643
Land use – the way human beings employ the land and its resources is at the centre of scientific and policy interests in rapidly evolving landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa. An example par excellence of such landscapes is the Western Highland Region of Cameroon. This paper analyses...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i11642
There has been an increase in the level of oil spillage across the Niger Delta region of Nigeria since the advent of crude oil exploration. The effects of oil pollution cannot be overemphasized, as it is not only detrimental to human health but also to the ecosystem at large. Geo...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i11641
Aims: This study sought to analyze the effects of adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture practices on farmers’ livelihoods in Soy sub County Kenya. Study Design: The study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive survey research design, specifically use of household questionnaires, a...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i10639
This study was informed by the lack of literature that gave a country-specific holistic account of the extent of the application of geosynthetics to civil infrastructure projects. Thus, this current study determined the extent that geosynthetics had been applied to civil infrastr...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i10637
The present study were carried out in the brewing factory of Cameroon (SABC) Yaoundé focuses on the evaluation of chemical contaminants influencing the wastewater treatment plant. Standard methods of analysis of physicochemical parameters of wastewater in anaerobic sludge were do...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i10636
A high-resolution biostratigraphy study and paleoenvironment analysis were carried out on composited fifteen (15) ditch-cutting samples retrieved from AJAYI-01 well, offshore Niger Delta, Nigeria. The studied intervals range from 4060feet – 4960feet and were subjected to foramini...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i10635
The study focuses on the mapping of geological lineaments from the following different sun elevation angles: 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°, 180°, 225°, 270°, and 315° of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Four of the images with azimuth; 0°, 45°, 90° and 135° were combined to produce a sing...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2022/v26i10634