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The Journal of Environmental Protection (JEP) is published monthly and one of most prospective international journals with multiple disciplines. It covers various aspects of environmental issues, such as research, strategies and the state-of-the-art technologies for prediction, prevention and protection addressing up-…
Gabriele Medeiros dos Santos, Maria Leonor Ribeiro Casimiro Lopes-Assad, Marcos Cicarini Hott, Marcelo Henrique Otenio
The presence of fecal coliforms is one of the determinants for classification of the quality of water bodies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the water quality and surrounding land use in the area known as the Mantiqueira Ecolog…
Peter Wiltje Uitterdijk Appel, Leoncio Degay Na-Oy
Small-scale gold mining is the largest anthropogenic contributor of mercury pollution on planet Earth. The miners grind gold ore together with mercury in order to recover the fine gold grains. The gold amalgam is burned whereby the mercury evaporates and gold…
Asmat Ahmad, Ayokunle Christopher Dada, Gires Usup
Culturable faecal coliform, epidemic, clinical, faecal and recreational beach enterococci strains possessing putative virulence genes were enumerated over the course of 5 weeks to comparatively assess their persistence in tropical marine and fresh waters. For…
Edson Gandiwa, Patience Zisadza-Gandiwa, Never Muboko, Elias Libombo, Clayton Mashapa, Rachel Gwazani
This study aimed at examining local people’s knowledge and perceptions of wildlife conservation in southeastern Zimbabwe. Data were collected between October and November in 2012 using a purposive sampling approach of households ( n = 114) in communities adja…
Joseph M. Makaya, Aly Savadogo, Marius K. Somda, Jean-Baptiste Bour, Nicolas Barro, Alfred S. Traoré
The use in agriculture of excreta from urine-diversion toilets can be an alternative solution to the lack of sanitation and high costs of mineral fertilizers inherent to developing countries. The objective of this study was to evaluate the hygienic quality of…
Daewuk Kim, Jae-Gyu Cha, Eung-Ho Jung
In this study, a simulation was conducted targeting Beomeo stream of Daegu, for the purpose of the quantitative determination of the changes in thermal environment of surrounding residential areas according to the urban river refurbishment. For the study meth…
Nadèje Tekaya, Olga Saiapina, Hatem Ben Ouada, Florence Lagarde, Philippe Namour, Hafedh Ben Ouada, Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault
An original bi-enzymatic biosensor was designed by immobilizing Arthrospira platensis cells, called Spirulina, on gold interdigitated transducers. Phosphatase and esterase activities were inhibited, respectively, by heavy metals and by pesticides. Inhibition…
Ganapati Hegde, Mahesh Mandya, Sushma S. Gokarnakar, Vinodbabu N. Babu, Vijayakumar N. Shivaramaiah, Sannanegunda V. Krishnamurthy
We have examined the effects of environmentally realistic concentrations of widely used pesticides and fertilizers for rice paddy in Western Ghats regions of India on chlorophyll and zooplankton production using a laboratory mesocosm. Malathion (100 μg·L - 1…
Raimundo C. G. Maciel, Bastiaan P. Reydon, Jeísa A. da Costa, Gardênia de Oliveira Sales
The Amazonian economic occupation over the last forty years has been extremely harmful to the environment and to the traditional populations. One of the strategies to overcome this difficulty, dealing with sustainable development, is the development of produc…
Daniel Shepherd, David McBride, Kim N. Dirks, David Welch
Noise remains a potent degrader of health in many global contexts, capable of inducing severe annoyance and sleep disturbance. An epidemiological study was undertaken to compare noise annoyance and health-related quality of life of individuals residing close…
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