7 articles in this issue
Kwong Fai A. Lo and Suranjith Bandara Koralegedara
Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to water-related issues due to rapid urbanization, installation of complex infrastructure and changes in rainfall patterns. This study aims at assessing the impacts of climate change on rainwater harvesting syst... see more
Moses Wazingwa Munthali, Erni Johan and Naoto Matsue
The saturation of negative charges of zeolites by specific cations to modify their physicochemical and catalytic properties has broadened the applications of zeolites. The adsorption behavior of H+ to Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+ and Cs+-saturated Linde-type A, Na-P... see more
Md. Surabuddin Mondal, Nayan Sharma, Martin Kappas and P. K. Garg
An attempt has been made to assess the dynamics of land use land cover change (LULCC) in the study area. LANDSAT-5 TM, IRS-1C LISS III, IRS-P6 LISS III images of 1987, 1997 and 2007, respectively, were digitally classified for land use land cover (LULC) m... see more
Jie Hu, Lin Zhen, Chuan-Zhun Sun, Bing-Zhen Du and Chao Wang
Following the implementation of the Green for Grain Project in 2000 in Guyuan, China, the decrease in cultivated land and subsequent increase in forest and grassland pose substantial challenges for the supply of biological products. Whether the current bi... see more
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Thomas C. C. Huang and Kwong Fai A. Lo
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a watershed-based, semi-distributed hydrologic model for simulating hydrological processes at different spatial scales. The SWAT hydrology and erosion/sediment components are first validated after the hydrologi... see more
Michael Elias, Oliver Hensel, Uwe Richter, Christian Hülsebusch, Brigitte Kaufmann and Oliver Wasonga
Conversion of rangelands into cultivated land is one of the main challenges affecting the management of rangelands in Ethiopia. In order to inform policy makers about trends in land-use conversion, this study examined the drivers, trends, and impacts of l... see more