Essays about: "Causes of land deterioration"

Found 3 essays containing the words Causes of land deterioration.

  1. 1. Spatial assessment of NDVI as an indicator of desertification in Ethiopia using remote sensing and GIS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Gezahagn Negash Seboka; [2016]
    Keywords : NDVI and Rainfall; land degradation; climate change; desertification; NOAA AVHRR; land cover; GIS; Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Desertification is a serious environmental and socio-economic problem occurring at global, regional and local scale. According to Article 1(a) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), define the term “desertification” means “land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid (dry lands) areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities”. READ MORE

  3. 2. A groundwater flow model for water related damages on historic monuments – Case study West Luxor, Egypt

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Edgar Herbas Campos; [2009]
    Keywords : groundwater; conceptual model; irrigation; GMS 6.0; World Heritage; Luxor; Egypt.; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : In 1979 “The Ancient Thebes and its Necropolis” entered in the World Heritage List in a core zone of 7390 ha. Western Thebes holds the remains of about 36 temples in varying degrees of preservation and dating from archaic times (3100 – 2686 B.C.) to the Greco-Roman Period (332 B. READ MORE

  4. 3. Land Cover Change in the Okavango River Basin : Historical changes during the Angolan civil war, contributing causes and effects on water quality

    University essay from Tema vatten i natur och samhälle

    Author : Jafet Andersson; [2006]
    Keywords : Okavango; land cover change; Angolan civil war; unsupervised classification; Normalised Difference Vegetation Index NDVI ; binary change; degree of change; water quality; agriculture;

    Abstract : The Okavango river flows from southern Angola, through the Kavango region of Namibia and into the Okavango Delta in Botswana. The recent peace in Angola hopefully marks the end of the intense suffering that the peoples of the river basin have endured, and the beginning of sustainable decision-making in the area. READ MORE