American Journal of Environmental Protection

Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2017

  • Impact of Quality and Usage of Outdoor Spaces on Sustainable Campus Environment in Akure, Nigeria

    Ikudayisi Ayodele Emmanuel, Adegbehingbe Victor Olufemi

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2017
    Pages: 105-111
    Received: 28 February 2017
    Accepted: 1 April 2017
    Published: 29 August 2017
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    Abstract: Sustainable academic environment has multiple benefits of fostering conducive living and learning as well as shaping student’s behavioural pattern towards sustainability practice in their future endeavours. Although an academic environment entails the interface of indoor and outdoor spaces, the outdoor spaces have received little research attention... Show More
  • Competitiveness of Selected Pasture Plant Species with Parthenium Weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.)

    Ibrahim Mehdi, Lisanework Nigatu, Alemayehu Mengistu

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2017
    Pages: 112-119
    Received: 4 August 2017
    Accepted: 18 August 2017
    Published: 13 September 2017
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    Abstract: The study was conducted to come across with competitive test pasture species grown in combination with parthenium at varying levels of density under field in factorial experiment using Randomized Complete Block Design. The treatments consisted of 10, 20 and 30 plants of either test species grown together with 30, 20 or 10 parthenium other than pure... Show More
  • Geoenvironmental Impact of Effluents Generated from Al Subiya Power Plant on the Northern Kuwait Bay, State of Kuwait

    Mohamed Ibrahim El–Anbaawy, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Saeed Ndail, Mohammad Al Sarawi

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2017
    Pages: 120-139
    Received: 2 July 2017
    Accepted: 13 July 2017
    Published: 11 October 2017
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    Abstract: The present study proposed to assess the geo-environmental impacts of Al Subiya desalination plant discharges in the Arabian Gulf, Kuwait. Most of the power and freshwater needs in the Middle East are met by the desalination of seawater. With approximately 11 million m3 of freshwater being produced each day, the salinity of the seawater along the G... Show More