Aim: There is no doubt that the world is now under a serious threat from the environmental hazards due to the fact that the frequency and intensity of hydrological hazards such as floods have been increasing in recent years. Flood risk is a probability of loss which depends on th...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28623
Land use/land cover change studies are very crucial to understand how land conditions shifted and where changes happened. In central Ethiopia, most of the natural ecosystems have shifted to agriculture and human settlement. More recently, expansion of Eucalyptus woodlots has been...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26606
The standard method of measuring wellbeing or poverty is usually by associating poverty with material deprivation and describing the poor per incomes or nature of consumption. In other words, poverty is viewed in material terms as not having a sufficient level of income to pay fo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28064
An assessment of storage changes within the Cretaceous sandstones of Lokoja Formation constituting the sedimentary part of Lokoja and its environs was carried out using USGS GSFLOW-1.0 software to investigate reasons for water problems such as drying of streams and failure of wel...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28505
Anatolia is a region dominated by Turkish Islamic Civilization for nearly one thousand years. During this long period, the region has had a rich civilization growing under the rules of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey especially Anatolian Seljuk Empire. Talas is one...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24254
The distribution of precipitation on runoff, evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge and the change of this distribution in response to human activities plays rather important role in the availability of water resources, especially in areas of Mediterranean climate. This stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28027
The subsoil conditions of Gbaran North Bank area, parts of the Nigerian wetland were evaluated using both disturbed and undisturbed soils, which were subjected to various laboratory tests adopting the British Standards methods, with the aim of establishing the subsoil conditions...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25806
Aims: Harput is one of the first settlement places in Anatolia, Turkey, and its history dates back to 2000 B.C. So, Harput has experienced many invasions throughout its history. In this study, urban design and the protection concepts of historical heritages of Harput Township are...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27206
Yearly, the federal and various state governments allocate stated amounts of money in their annual budget to capital projects. Most of these projects involve renovation or development of new infrastructural facilities. Availability of infrastructure in contrast to accessibility i...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27675
Soil erosion is one of the serious forms of land degradation in the Auchi area in Edo State. Efforts have been made to control the phenomenon but these have met with limited successes. Part of the problem is a poor understanding of the dynamics of the phenomenon in time and space...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26459
This question appears to be anachronistic in the sense that, as at today, Geography – both physical and human - has fully embraced and adopted Positivism as a philosophy and methodology of acquiring valid knowledge. Therefore, it is no longer a question of inevitability but rathe...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28000
Nowadays, the dynamics of the Senegal river delta ecosystem has attracted the attention of the authorities because of the profound changes which it is subject. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the dynamics of land use units and natural and anthropogenic factors...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27909
120 sediment samples collected along a 47 km transect from Ikot Abasi to Eket, Akwa Ibom State were subjected to granulometric analysis to determine their textural characteristics and depositional processes. Standard sedimentological methods involving sieve analysis were utilized...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27919
Total anthropogenic greenhouse gases have continued to increase with municipal solid waste dumpsites contributing immensely to the high concentrations of greenhouse gases with high warming potentials. This study is aimed at determining the global warming potentials of municipal s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24126
In the physical sciences, attempts to describe processes, events, and phenomena upon the basis of problematic paradigms can be wholly incorrect and lead to physically impossible consequences, e.g., the ultraviolet catastrophe of radiation physics, and/or can necessitate ad hoc as...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26454