Perception influences the manner people address the risks and opportunities associated with climate change and this in turn influences the manner people respond to the impact(s). Based on questionnaire data collected from 197 respondents, this paper examined public perception abo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/32400
Aims: Understanding the role played by forest diversity to supply non-timber forest products for income and food supplements of households is important in forest management and human life. This study was conducted to investigate the role played by non-timber forest products and t...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/32300
In this paper, the first result of outdoor ambient radioactivity measurement and evaluated radiation indices and excessive lifetime cancer risk factor within Uyo, Unity Part Uyo, Nigeria (Latitude 5.0281°, Longitude 7.9734° and Latitude 5.0466° and Longitude 7.9869°) are presente...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31980
The year 2016 CE marked the centennial of palynology as a scientific discipline after Lennart von Post introduced it in lectures in Kristiania (now Oslo) and Stockholm in 1916. However, palynology is only one of many disciplines within the broad field of palaeoecology. The 100th...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/32198
Aims: This is a critical comment on the recently published paper by Herndon (JGEESI 9(1): 1-11, 2017). I present compelling findings that Herndon’s main claim that the “air-drop material” found on February 14, 2016 in Harrison Township, Michigan (USA) is an evidence for a deliber...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/32479
In the French “Nord-Pas-de-Calais” region, sediments suspended in runoff waters coming from rural watersheds play a major part in the turbidity of surface waters, silting up of streams, and silting of permanent structures such as canals and ports. One of the main factors in proce...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31781
This research reports overpressure occurrence in the eastern part of Niger Delta by using an integrated approach that combines the use of equivalent depth method, the Eaton equation with seismic reflection data. Sonic logs from four wells in the Oluku field were used. Pore pressu...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31057
Shoreline mapping and change rate along the Ras El-Hekma, north west of Egypt has been analyzed. Thresholding band ratio method, in which a thresholding value is selected either by man-machine interaction or by a local adaptive strategy, has been used to extract shorelinе. Digita...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/32086
The Rusizi national Park management is now disconnected from peripheral territorial dynamics. This study aims to analyze the evolution of the protected area considering both participatory management strategies and spatial socio-economic interactions. For this, an integrated metho...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/32025
This study focuses on characterization of hard-rock aquifers in South Western Côte d’Ivoire where previous quantitative hydrogeological studies were not common. San Pedro is localized in South-Western Côte d'Ivoire where the basement is dominated by folded and fissured crystallin...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/27464
Aims: The aim of this study was to analyze the environmental and health impacts of poor waste management at the autonomous port of Cotonou, Benin. Materials and Methods: The socio-anthropological investigations were carried. The collected data was used, through appropriate analys...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31410
The theoretical mechanism of geyser eruption is analyzed and verified using the example of Geysers in Kamchatka (Russian Federation) and Yellowstone (United States). A simple experimental geyser model, confirming the basic conclusions of the theory, is described and demonstrated....
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31316
Inyang Godwin Edet, Opara Alexander Ifeanyichukwu, Ibechu Bridget Odochi, Nwachukwu Helen Gloria, Eluwa Ndidiamaka, Amadi Chinyere Caroline, Emberga Theophilus Terhemba & Eke Daberechi Richmond·Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International·2017
Hydrogeophysical characterization of the aquifers of Ugep and environs, Southeastern Nigeria was carried out to delineate the aquifers of the study area, evaluate their geometrical potentials and to assess their level of vulnerability to pollution from surface contaminants. Forty...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/30349
The study has shown that the environmental challenges encountered in Iringa and most other urban areas in Africa are due to the anthropogenic activities arising from the influxes of migrants from rural areas. The urban areas are continuing to receive mostly rural migrants beyond...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31072
The schist enclaves of Oban massif, southeastern Nigeria were deformed predominantly by brittle deformation and contain a plethora of fractures such as joints and conjugate shear fractures. Analysis of the conjugate shear fractures using stereographic projection technique and sta...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/28643