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The impact of natural resource consumption on carbon emissions: evidence of a symmetric and asymmetric effect from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan African countries are among mineral-rich develo** countries strategically competing to guarantee sustainable economic development...
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Application of MaxEnt modeling to evaluate the climate change effects on the geographic distribution of Lippia javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng in Africa
Lippia javanica is a typical indigenous plant species mostly found in the higher elevation or mountainous regions in southern, central, and eastern...
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Organochlorine pesticide contamination in sediments from Richards Bay, South Africa: spatial trends and ecotoxicological risks
The occurrence and distribution of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in aquatic systems is a matter of global concern and poses significant...
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Digital Networking and the Case of Youth Unemployment in South Africa
South Africa has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment and under-employment around the world, despite having a relatively large formal...
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Industrial and infrastructural conditions for production and export of green hydrogen and synthetic fuels in the MENA region: insights from Jordan, Morocco, and Oman
Green hydrogen and synthetic fuels are increasingly recognized as a key strategic element for the progress of the global energy transition. The...
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A study on the social and economic sustainability of rewards-based crowdfunding in Africa
Crowdfunding in Africa is unique due to the unstable but budding macro-environment that enables offline backer contribution that fosters project...
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Russia-Ukraine War: Impacts on Energy Market and Food Security in Africa
The supremacy of Russia in Eastern Europe, including its hegemony in the Warsaw Pact until the collapse of socialism in the 1990s created a national...
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Observations suggest that North African dust absorbs less solar radiation than models estimate
Desert dust accounts for a large fraction of shortwave radiation absorbed by aerosols, which adds to the climate warming produced by greenhouse...
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Heavy Rainfall Resulting from Extreme Weather Disturbances in Eastern Coastal Parts of South Africa: 11 April 2022
This work investigates the synoptic dynamic assessment to understand the specific weather structureStructure initiating serious recent coastal area...
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Survey on social awareness towards energy conservation and ESD lesson on biofuel as a renewable energy source
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 aims to ensure that all people have access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and clean energy by 2030....
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The irrigated wheat initiative of Ethiopia: a new paradigm emulating Asia’s green revolution in Africa
The aim of this paper is to assess and document the experience of the successful irrigated wheat initiative in Ethiopia, identify potential...
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Closer together or farther apart: are there club convergence in ecological footprint?
This study empirically tests whether there is evidence of convergence in ecological footprint among 189 countries for the period 1990–2017. Using the...
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Comparative assessment of life cycle impacts of various plastic waste management scenarios in Johannesburg, South Africa
PurposeLandfilling can result in a loss in revenue that would otherwise have been accrued from recycling plastic waste, loss in potential jobs, and...
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Elemental ratios as tracers of the sources of mineral dust in north-eastern Sahara
The objective of this study is to confirm the possibility of tracing sources of airborne mineral dust using elemental ratios. The region of study is...
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Healthy environments for athleTes (HEAT): environmental conditions along a 90 km ultra-marathon event, South Africa
This paper provides an overview of the HEAT (Healthy Environments for AthleTes) project, which aims to understand the impact of environmental...
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Does energy poverty increases starvation? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
This study contributes to the existing literature on energy poverty and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is conducted on a panel...
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Does excessive energy utilization and expansion of urbanization increase carbon dioxide emission in Belt and Road economies?
The phenomenal increase in global temperature and variation in climate change are the replications of nature, alarming governments to limit the...
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Wind and wind power characteristics of the eastern and southern coastal and northern inland regions, South Africa
The objective of this work is to understand the fluctuating nature of wind speed characteristics on different time scales and to find the long-term...
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Plastic pollution threat in Africa: current status and implications for aquatic ecosystem health
Rapid population growth and poor waste management practice are among the main drivers of plastic pollution in modern times, thus making Africa a...
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Effects of temperature and relative humidity on the COVID-19 pandemic in different climates: a study across some regions in Algeria (North Africa)
After more than a year from the first confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, the role of meteorological factors in the transmission of...
