Climatic change may occur due to high greenhouse gas emissions arising from dependence on solid fuel which triggers frequent environmental disasters such as extreme heat, droughts, floods, cyclones in many developing countries. Agriculture is sensitive to climate change in develo...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/35485
This study was carried to examine the determinants of rural farmers’ adaptation to climate change, and their perception with respect to farmers’ socio-economic profile. The study conducted in Abia state utilized 120 farmers selected from 4 communities and 2 Local Government Area’...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2017/33035
Oluowo Elohor Freeman, Olomukoro John Ovie & Isibor Patrick Omoregie·Advances in Research·2017
Climate change affect the physiochemical characteristics of water bodies directly through temperature increase with resultant effect in reducing heavy metals concentrations in surface water temporarily, and indirectly changing the physical and chemical processes related to temper...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/34754
Climate change is one of the alarming global environmental changes likely to have deleterious effects on natural, social, cultural and human systems. The risks associated with it call for a broad spectrum of policy responses and strategies at local, regional, national and global...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/34568
The article aims to describe the attitudes that secondary school students have about climate change. The study was developed with a group of each one in a high school of Tlalpan Delegation, in Mexico City. The scale was shaped by a series of statements containing actions related...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/33527
The Central England Temperature (CET) record is the world's longest instrument-based temperature record and covers the years 1659-present. The temperature variation of 0.8°C between the Maunder Sunspot Minimum in the late 17th Century and the beginning of the Industrial Revolutio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/34589
In this paper, the author describes a semi empirical climate model (SECM) including the major forces which have impacts on the global warming namely Greenhouse Gases (GHG), the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI), the Astronomical Harmonic Resonances (AHR), and the Volcanic Eruptions (V...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/34187
Nathalie da Silva Cavalcanti Monteiro, Rhenyo Augusto Bastos Monteiro, Juliana D’ Angela Mariano, Jair Urbanetz Junior & Cezar Augusto Romano·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2017
There is great concern worldwide about increased greenhouse gas emissions and the consequences of climate change. Photovoltaic solar energy emerges as an alternative source of renewable energy with low environmental impacts. Through a bibliographical review on the subject, this p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33408
The study was conducted with the aim to study the extent and level of farm women awareness about climate variability and its effect on water resources. The study was conducted in three agro-climatic zones of Punjab, India. One district from each zone was selected purposively for...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32513
The study assessed climate change adaptation options and their implications on mangrove resources in Bagamoyo District. A total of three villages and 158 respondents were involved. Close and open-ended questions and FGDs were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Des...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/32612
Climate change has been one of the most sought out and debated topic of this decade and is evident to have profound effect on human health, climatic conditions and biodiversity. Though changes in climatic conditions has been referred as natural process but scientific investigatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33276
The objective of the present study was to estimate the cost of adaptation to climate change incurred by the rice growers in Eastern Himalaya (EH) in India. A sample total of 120 cereal farmers were surveyed in Senapati district of Manipur and East Sikkim district of Sikkim in EH....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33216
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
The aim of this study is to assess the global warming and climate change preconceptions and misconceptions of students. Descriptive survey method was used for the study. The participants of this study were 84 university students who were in the first and last year of their study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32609
Analysis of deviation of precipitation in space, time and quantities, and its associated effect on the ecology is vital in coastal environments where the resource is highly variable and unpredictable. The present study is mainly concerned with the changing trend of rainfall and a...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/32709