Aims: The study of urban heat islands and traditionally relies on simplistic descriptors such as “urban” and “rural”. While these descriptors may be evocative of the landscape, they are insufficient in providing information like its site properties which have direct impacts on th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/13051
Aim: This research examines the economic impacts of drought severity and duration to interdependent production sectors in an urban catchment. Methodology: We developed a dynamic water input-output model extension to analyze the drought vulnerability and resilience of economic sec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/9872
Aims: This paper presents a study on the development of a 2-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic model based on TELEMAC-2D for the flood simulation of the river from Kratie to Kampong Cham in Cambodia, a part of the Mekong River. The motivation behind the research was to study the feasi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/12885
In order to study the influence of the hydrothermal treatment technology (HTT) on macro/micro nutrients extraction from two types of chicken manure (broiler chicken manure (BCM) and laying hen chicken manure (LCM)), hydrothermal treatment followed by the solid/liquid separation o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/15434
Groundwater contributes a significant proportion of stream flow, and its contribution varies temporally throughout the year. The objective of this study was to investigate the temporal dynamics of groundwater contribution to stream flow under the effects of climate and land use c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/14218
Groundwater is still an important water source for many parts of the world, especially in countries such as Sri Lanka, because, despite a huge government investment to divert some of the rivers to dry areas, there are many areas which this river water cannot reach, and hence a la...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/16018
In this study future flooding frequencies have been estimated for the Grand River catchment located in south-western Ontario, Canada. Historical and future climatic projections made by fifteen Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project-3 climate models are bias-corrected and downscal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/17705
Cement industry accounts for the second largest emitter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas in the globe with 900 kg CO2 emitted into the atmosphere from producing one tonne of cement. Hence, the effort made to mitigate this issue seems not productive , which gives rise to the design...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/12482
Aims: In February and March 2014, more than 300,000 households were affected by water rationing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the surrounding State of Selangor. Further south, reservoir levels in Singapore were dropping, prompting the government to raise the water conservation rh...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/13098