Land use plans have been considered as a solution to land use problems. Effectiveness of implementation of land use plan relies on a number of factors including strategies that are used to enhance adherence to the land use plan. For the study area, current and potential strategie...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i230222
Land use plans have been considered as a solution to land use problems and hence enhance ecological, economic and social sustainability of land use. Appropriateness of land use plans and hence its potential for adherence may rely on sufficiency of zones allocated for different la...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i130221
Forests are natural carbon reservoirs that play an important role in the global carbon cycle for storing large quantities of carbon in vegetation and soils. Carbon stored in pool helps in mitigating climate change by carbon sequestration. The vulnerable countries to changing clim...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i130219
Aims: This study assessed the level of climate change awareness among the forest-adjacent communities in the Kakamega-Nandi forest ecosystem complex. Four locations were chosen for the study, Buyangu and Isecheno in the Kakamega forest, Kaptumo in Nandi South and Kipsamoite in Na...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i130220
A forest management plan is a document that guides management of a formally managed forest. The general description is a component of a forest management plan, which describes the target forest and the focal landscape in socioeconomic and ecological terms. This paper gives a gene...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i130218
Water quality determination has become essential in characterising the nature of water used by humans for various purposes. This study was therefore carried out to assess the nitrate to phosphate ratio and other physical and chemical parameters influencing the quality of water us...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i130217
Aims: To determine the effects of salt harvesting on ground water quality in Gongoni ward, Kilifi County. Study Design: The study design was purposive where sampling points were deliberately chosen. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in Gongoni ward and its en...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i430216
Pharmaceutical industries in Bangladesh are considered as one major industrial as well as environmental pollution problems which discharge a significant amount of organic contaminants in the environment hence require advanced treatment technologies to decontaminate pharmaceutical...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i430215
Eco-parks are generally set up worldwide for serving both recreational and conservation purposes of local biodiversity through limited maintenance. Gopegarh Eco Park was set by the Forest Department, Government of West Bengal in highlands bank of Kangsabati Kansai) river with a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i430213
Increasing species-richness at the local scale (within species communities) is accommodated, first, by the diversification of the niches respectively associated to species. Yet, in case of excessive supply in colonizing species issued from the regional pool, the corresponding inc...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i430214
The domestication of animals was part of a major transformation in the way of life of an increasing number of human societies with deep social and spiritual changes. In the present study, we report about utility of Nilgai and the values of its products and how it can add variety...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i430211
Aims: Assessment of human and environmental health implications of pesticide use by farmers in the western highlands of Cameroon, the case of Fotouni. Study design: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Place and Duration of Study: This work was done between November 2016 and March 2017 i...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i330210
The lack of clean water sources due to pollution and industrialisation is a major problem in many countries including Nigeria. To overcome this challenge, various methods have been adopted including phytoremediation treatment. This study evaluates dried duckweed an aquatic plant...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i330209
Florent Biduaya Mukeba, Myriam Mukadi Ngondo, Nazaire Kabemba Kadima, Prince Bofati Ilonga, Patrick Kayembe Bibasuya, Patience Mpia Ngelinkoto, Paulin Kapepula Mutwale, Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua, Kalima Nkoma Mwange, Johnny Bopopi Mukoko, Nadège Kabamba Ngombe, Pius T. Mpiana & Théophile Mbemba Fundu·Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology·2021
Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the texture, mineral element and heavy metal content of the soil under the litter of different selected species in relation to the plan of their pedogenesis. Methods: The granulometric analysis of the various samples based on laser diffra...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i330208
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of sawmill wastes from selected sawmills in Port Harcourt on the environment. The physicochemical and microbiological features of the air at the sawmill sites were determined using air quality analyzer and settling plate technique re...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v14i330207