Whether and how the GCM will impact national migration orders depends crucially on whether both governments non-state actors engage with it in practice. This article takes Morocco as a case study focuses role of government civil society. It asks far their practices regarding support its potential soft law instrument to orders. To undertake more fine-grained analysis, includes an analysis implem...

Hammams are key providers of affordable hygiene and wellbeing services for the less wealthy in Maghreb region. However, UN climate change conference COP22, held Marrakech 2016, highlighted hammams major contributors to air pollution, deforestation, loss ecosystems, water overconsumption wastage Morocco. This paper analyses complexity advancing their energy transition from viewpoint stakeholders...

An uneven-span modified greenhouse dryer was constructed and tested in no-load conditions under natural convection mode the weather of Marrakech, Morocco, for two distinct days. Moreover, a CFD evaluation performed as tool to visualize air temperature distribution inside dryer. For validating model, variations along hours day were compared experimental results. A good agreement is obtained betw...

This study was performed to test three methods based on the FAO-56 ‘‘dual’’ crop coefficient approach to estimate actual evapotranspiration (AET) for winter wheat under different irrigation treatments in the semi-arid region of Tensift Al Haouz, Marrakech (center of Morocco). The three methods differ in the calculation of the basal crop coefficient (Kcb) and the fraction of soil surface covered...

this study was carried out for the purpose of investigating the issue of tailings dams as a potential source of contamination by trace elements in soils at the sidi bou othmane mine in the marrakech region, morocco. soil samples taken from depths of up to 15 cm and within a radius of 50 m from the tailings dams, were analyzed for cd, cu, pb and zn using atomic absorption spectrometry. average c...

this paper reports the results of using three empirical methods (makkink, priestley-taylor and hargreaves) for estimating the reference evapotranspiration (et0) in the semi-arid region of tensift al haouz, marrakech (center of morocco). the penman-monteith equation, standardized by the food and agriculture organization (fao-pm), is used to evaluate the three empirical methods. the obtained et0 ...

background: despite the importance of the postnatal consultation, in morocco, only 22% of women attended these consultations. the aim of this study was to identify associated factors with these consultations and offer suggestions to improve their use. methods: this study was conducted in 2014 in marrakech. a sample of women in reproductive age (15-49 yr) giving birth during 2013 year was enroll...

The main goal of this study is to propose saffron as a sustainable substitute crop with high added value in some Moroccan agricultural areas with low and erratic rainfalls for their socio-economical development. The quality of the saffron spice crop produced under different Moroccan environments has to be evaluated prior to recommendation for commercial production. For this purpose, saffron was...