Despite increased interest on the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon, there are limited UHI studies on cities built using the green-city concept of Sir Ebenezer Howard [1]. The administrative capital of Malaysia, Putrajaya is one of such cities built using the green-city concept....
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/14923
Aim: Climate change is becoming one of the major global environment concerns. The earth’s climate is predicted to change due to release of greenhouse gases and there is an urgent need for stabilizing the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in atmosphere. Soil carbon sequestration...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/16777
The impact of climate change on society is one of the most serious challenges of this century. Observations have shown that the Earth’s hydrologic cycle has intensified during past century as the Earth’s temperatures have increased. Such change in hydrology will affect nearly eve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/7962
Public heritage buildings (PHBs) were evaluated with the aim to determine their operational energy performance and the objectives of identifying improvement potentials for their long term sustainable reuse. Six listed churches initially used for worship and later converted to com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/19791
Aims: The impacts of catastrophic flooding have steadily increased over the last few decades. This work investigated the effectiveness of flood modeling, with low dimensionality models along with a wealth of soft (qualitative) and hard (quantitative) data. In the presence of very...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/12915
Aims: The objective of this research is to understand and analyze the trend of water resources and its effects on land subsidence, vegetation cover change, and water supply reservoir drawdown in Beijing, China. Study Design: This research combined both field monitoring data and r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/13861
Aims: To develop a modelling methodology for evaluating the cumulative stormwater performance of Low Impact Development technologies on a watershed basis to address stormwater impacts of urban development. Study Design: A method is presented to perform hydrological modelling on l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/11578
Aims: In recent decades, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, frequently has been affected by local floods and inundation from heavy rainfall. Conventional flood mitigation measures such as building flood gates and upgrading sewerage systems have been implemented but problems persist. The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/11534
Aims: A personal computer version of the Stormwater Management Model (PCSWMM) was applied to seamlessly link urban runoff, sanitary flow, pump station operations, and a natural wastewater treatment wetland in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as a step towards developing a planning tool that...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/12101