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Koffi Pacome Kouame, Raj Kishan Agrahari, Noren Singh Konjengbam, Hiroyuki Koyama and Yuriko Kobayashi
Abiotic stress is a major cause of the declining crop yield worldwide, especially in tropical agricultural areas. Meeting the global food demand has become a serious challenge, especially in tropical areas, because of soil acidity, Al and Fe toxicity, dr...
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Taylor Joyal, Alexander K. Fremier and Jan Boll
In the humid tropics, forest conversion and climate change threaten the hydrological function and stationarity of watersheds, particularly in steep terrain. As climate change intensifies, shifting precipitation patterns and expanding agricultural and pas...
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Juan Manuel Medina, Carolina M. Rodriguez, Maria Camila Coronado and Lina Maria Garcia
The analysis of thermal comfort in buildings, energy consumption, and occupant satisfaction is crucial to influencing the architectural design methodologies of the future. However, research in these fields in developing countries is sectorised. Most time...
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Eng Cheong Wong, Ying Hui Ong, Yee Sern Ng
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Eutrophication arises from human activities has been recognized globally as an environmental issue. Human activities have greatly increased the input of phosphorus and nitrogen into the water bodies which place a heavy pressure on clean water resources. ...
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Angélica Felix, Jassiel V. Hernández-Fontes, Débora Lithgow, Edgar Mendoza, Gregorio Posada, Michael Ring and Rodolfo Silva
The harnessing of renewable sources of marine energy has become a promising solution for a number of problems, namely satisfying the increasing demand for electricity, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the provision of energy to regions unco...
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Majid Fereidoon, Manfred Koch and Luca Brocca
Hydrological models are widely used for many purposes in water sector projects, including streamflow prediction and flood risk assessment. Among the input data used in such hydrological models, the spatial-temporal variability of rainfall datasets has a ...
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Nícolas Reinaldo Finkler, Flavia Tromboni, Iola Gonçalves Boëchat, Björn Gücker and Davi Gasparini Fernandes Cunha
Pollution abatement through phosphorus and nitrogen retention is a key ecosystem service provided by streams. Human activities have been changing in-stream nutrient concentrations, thereby altering lotic ecosystem functioning, especially in developing co...
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Nimi G. Dan-Jumbo, Marc J. Metzger and Andrew P. Clark
Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk. Ho...
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Fidele Karamage, Chi Zhang, Tong Liu, Andrew Maganda and Alain Isabwe
Land use without adequate soil erosion control measures is continuously increasing the risk of soil erosion by water mainly in developing tropical countries. These countries are prone to environmental disturbance due to high population growth and high ra...
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Claudio Del Pero, Federico M. Butera, Luigi Piegari, Marco Faifer, Maddalena Buffoli and Paolo Monzani
At present, in the developing countries, the power grids do not reach every small town and, even when they do, they are not reliable. For this reason, preservation of food and medicines is a sensitive issue for a large number of people. This work introdu...
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