American Journal of Environmental Protection

Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014

  • Destruction of Urban Green Spaces: A Problem Beyond Urbanization in Kumasi City (Ghana)

    Collins Adjei Mensah

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014
    Pages: 1-9
    Received: 3 January 2014
    Published: 30 January 2014
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    Abstract: Urbanization remains a single predominant factor that is continuously linked to the destruction of urban green spaces. This has created a knowledge gap of limited attention to other critical factors that deplete urban green spaces in diverse ways. Using Kumasi city (Ghana) which is suffering from rapid deterioration of its green spaces as a study a... Show More
  • Australian Consumers’ Perceptions of Environmental and Agricultural Threats: The Associations of Demographic and of Psychographic Variables

    Anthony Worsley, Wei Wang, Stacey Ridley

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014
    Pages: 10-18
    Received: 13 December 2013
    Published: 30 January 2014
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    Abstract: Currently little is known about the ways consumers perceive the issues and threats facing the agricultural sector. Understanding of the sector among the general community is important for its continued economic, social and environmental sustainability. Therefore we conducted an on-line survey among 1026 respondents drawn from each State and Territ... Show More
  • Survey of the Levels of some Heavy Metals in Roadside Dusts along Katima Mulilo Urban Road Construction, Namibia

    J. Abah, P. Mashebe, S. A. Onjefu

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014
    Pages: 19-27
    Received: 4 January 2014
    Published: 20 February 2014
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    Abstract: Roadside dusts pollutions with heavy metals continue to attract attention as more anthropogenic activities including urban road construction impacted on the natural metal loads of the environment. This study employed analytical procedures to investigate the concentrations of arsenic, lead, chromium, cadmium, cobalt, copper, nickel, manganese, vanad... Show More
  • Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Degradation of Triton X-100 in Aqueous TiO2 Suspensions

    Yanlin Zhang, Yufang Wan

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014
    Pages: 28-35
    Received: 23 January 2014
    Published: 20 February 2014
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    Abstract: The increasing utilization of surfactants generates a great amount of wastes. Surfactants and their more toxic degradation by-products in the environment affect the biota greatly. In particular, the low biodegradation of nonionic surfactants requires efficient oxidation treatments. In addition, the extracted contaminants by high concentrations of n... Show More
  • Calibrating the Rainfall-Runoff Model GR4J and GR2M on the Koulountou River Basin, a Tributary of the Gambia River

    Vieux Boukhaly TRAORE, Soussou SAMBOU, Séni TAMBA, Sidy FALL, Amadou Tahirou DIAW, Mohamed Talla CISSE

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014
    Pages: 36-44
    Received: 13 January 2014
    Published: 20 February 2014
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    Abstract: Rainfall runoff modelling is the first step in water resources management. It is the only way to simulate the hydrological behavior of the basin for a good evaluation of the potentiality of this in term of water production. Many approaches are actually in use. In physically distributed models, deterministic relations issued from conservation laws o... Show More