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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-…
René Bernardo Elías Cabrera-Cruz, Erika Alarcón-Ruiz, Julio César Rolón-Aguilar, Salvador W. Nava-Díaz, Elena María Otazo-Sánchez, Ricardo Pérez Aviléz
The process of identifying the attributes and relationships considered in an ontology is a complex task because there are many factors involved in the deterioration of environmental quality, the diversity of sources and data dispersion. This work presents an…
Paul Currie, Ethan Lay-Sleeper, John E. Fernández, Jenny Kim, Josephine Kaviti Musango
Data sourcing challenges in African nations have led many African urban infrastructure developments to be implemented with minimal scientific backing to support their success. In some cases this may directly impact a city’s ability to reach service delivery,…
Lourdes Ruiz Gutiérrez
The objective of this study is to determine the main adverse impacts that may be caused by tourism architecture upon island ecosystems consisting of small islands or islets and to propose an architectural and landscape design with a focus on the environmental…
Upendra M. Sainju
Little is known about the effect of management practices on net global warming potential (GWP) and greenhouse gas intensity (GHGI) that account for all sources and sinks of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in dryland cropping systems. The objective of this stud…
Jonathan Gumble, Robert Berghage, Dan Stearns
Experiments were performed from June 2014 to May 2015 at Penn State University’s greenhouse facilities in order to understand the production capacities and financial viability of an innovative growing system referred to as the Rotating Living Wall produced by…
Tendü Hilal Göktuğ, Nalan Demircioğlu Yıldız, Metin Demir, Burcu Mestav
Urban forests are confronted with high using pressure because of the increasing demand for recreation and accessibility of these settings. For that purpose, defining and managing recreational carrying capacity is considered as significant in ensuring ecologic…
Hosnia S. Abdel-Mohsien, Manal A. M. Mahmoud
Exposure to heavy metals is an important environmental problem resulting from anthropogenic activities. The aim of this study was the evaluation of some heavy metals as cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr) and aluminum (Al), in muscle of fresh water fish Or…
John R. Williams, Avin E. Pillay
The alternate bearing effect is when plants produce abundant crops of fruit in some years, but sparse yields in others. This review summarises recent studies that suggest a connection between the alternate bearing effect in the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera,…
Tapaswy Muppaneni, Harvind K. Reddy, Shuguang Deng
Biofuels became more promising alternative to the fossil fuels because of the depletion of fossil resources, renewability, environmental benefits, and energy security. Ethanolysis of waste cooking oil with hexane as co-solvent was carried out for the producti…
Kohei Imai, Kayoko Yamamoto
This study aims to evaluate measures against the Urban Heat Island (UHI) regarding artificial exhaust heat of road traffic using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Tokyo Ward Area where the degree of UHI is particularly strong. We developed a GIS dat…
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