Highlights We developed a land suitability framework for sustainable manure utilization based on seven water quality-related environmental vulnerability factors. ArcGIS-based decision-support tools were that use readily available data the U.S. The can be adapted to any location in livestock agricultural system. In case study, 19.9% of study area was identified as potentially suitable utilizatio...

Aiming at the problems existing in the current use of agricultural water and land resources in China and in order to realize sustainable use of the two resources, we established an indicator system for comprehensive evaluation of agricultural water and land resources carrying capacity based on the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses (DPSIR) concept framework. Then we took Sanjiang...

today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. it is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. the present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

Land suitability analysis is a prerequisite to achieving optimum utilization of the available land resources. Lack of knowledge on best combination of factors that suit production of rice has contributed to the low production. The aim of this study was to develop a suitability map for rice crop based on physical and climatic factors of production using a Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) & GIS ap...

With the current problem of population,resources and environment becoming increasingly intense day by day,the land use/land cover change (LUCC) is one of the core topics on the Present World Change Study.And with the worsening of the global environment,the exhausting of energy and the population explosion,the controversy between the development of oasis economy and the environment has become mo...

Article history: Received on: 19/12/2014 Revised on: 21/01/2015 Accepted on: 14/02/2015 Available online: 28/03/2015 Collagen is the sole most profuse protein in the animal kingdom. It has been subjected to various studies from time immemorial. Its applications are numerous and have been extracted from various sources such as land animals (mainly bovine and porcine) and birds. Although collagen...