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Turkey is heavily dependent on expensive imported energy resources (oil, gas and coal) that place a big burden on the economy. Air pollution is also becoming a great environmental concern in the country. In this regard, renewable energy resources appear to be one of the most efficient and...
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implications of drought-induced livestock and crop production shortfalls in various regions of Ethiopia, world price increases and …
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long time, but the first steps to combat drought took just in the mid twentieth century when there was planted windbreak …
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livelihoods in the face of a decade of persistent drought. The study is based on quantitative and qualitative data collected by …
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case, the lack of the water. During 1949 and 1955, studies were carried out concerning the damages produced by drought and …
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drought, which is exacerbated by environmental change. This study analyzes the impact of drought on household’s vulnerability …, the study employs the methodology proposed by Christiaensen and Subbarao (2004). The results show that recurrent drought … makes households more vulnerable to the extent that households that were affected by drought in both periods were twice as …
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The poverty problem is chronic in the Horn of Africa. Majority of the people in the region are suffering from this problem. There are numerous factors that cause poverty in the region. The challenge of poverty reduction in the Horn should therefore address the poverty reduction issues at...
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This paper considers the problem of a water management authority that is faced with the threat of a drought that will … restored, and iii) an economically optimal policy taking account of the probability of a drought and the fact that water is an … asset (a stock of natural capital). In particular, it is shown that the optimal pre-drought steady-state stock of water is …
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analyzed, through the study of environmental effects of greenhouse gases emissions from the use of solid biomass from sugarcane …
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This paper discusses mathematical calculations of the greenhouse gas emissions from small industries which cause the global warming in the atmosphere. Due to global warming the ocean levels are increasing, it is estimated that most of the coastal areas of the world will be submerged by 2050, and...
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