In East Africa, human population growth and demands for natural resources cause forest loss contributing to increased carbon emissions and reduced biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) are intended to conserve habitats and species. Variability in PA effectiveness and 'leakage' (here defined as displacement of deforestation) may lead to different trends in forest loss within, and adjacent to, exis...

the main purpose of this paper is to study urban management performance in public green spaces (parks) based on economical indexes, social indexes and environmental indexes. for this purposes, we use topsis method that is one of the methods of multiple criteria decision making. the data was obtained through interview and also a questionnaire which was distributed among about 1000 families of ma...

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T h e first speaker of the evening was Mr . Charles N . Ponitz, who took for his subject " True Success." Mr . K. D. Van Wagenen was next introduced and spoke upon the subject Of " T h e Newer Just ice." Miss Herbert then rendered a couple of solos. Mr . G. H . Collingwood, the third speaker, addressed the audience on "Danie l Webster ," and Mr. S. P . Walker , who spoke last, took for his subj...

it is accepted that noise pollution has a major impact on health, such as physical, physiological, psychological and performance related effects, all over the world. this study aims to evaluate noise pollution in four urban parks located in sanandaj city, iran and to zone it in gis environment. sound pressure level (spl) and maximum sound level (lmax) were measured at 45 points (each point was ...

The soil in cities often suffers from industrial pollution or structural changes due to construction and human activities. This presents different problems for growing plants, such as insufficient nutrition difficult drainage. essay the current situation of University Square Sanctuary Lakes Parks examples, has analyzed environment two places given some solution suggestions. with water shortage ...

South African agriculture accounts for 62% of the national water demand. Almost 45% is wasted. Therefore, irrigation systems need to improve their water-use efficiency (WUE). However, WUE smallholder schemes in country, including Agri-Parks, not precisely known. A study was performed at four Agri-Parks (Rooiwal, Soshanguve, Tarlton, and Westonaria) Gauteng province assess condition performance ...

Many studies have found that larger parks might be needed to counteract the Urban Heat Island effects typical in densely populated Asian megacities. However, it is not easy to establish large parks to serve as urban cool islands in Asian megacities, where little space exists for large urban neighborhood parks. Officials in these cities would rather use small areas by replacing heat-absorbing ar...

The newly issued “Guideline of General Planning Wetland Parks”, China, reclassified the functional zoning national wetland parks into three categories: conservation areas, restoration and reconstruction rational utilization areas. Therefore, country is facing a new round revision compilation general planning parks. purpose this paper was to provide information guide park formulate water polluti...