There are approximately one million kleingartens (small gardens) in Germany which provide public green spaces in urban areas. Most of the land is owned by local governments, who rent plots for approximately ¥20,000 per year to people without gardens. In Japan, on the other hand, most agricultural land in urban areas is privately owned, and unless preservation and utilization efforts are quickly...

Utilization of sewage sludge on land is an appealing sludge disposal method. The reasons are not just because of the environmental and economic constraints associated with other disposal methods such as incineration and landfilling, but also because the sludge is beneficial both as a soil conditioner and as a fertilizer [1,2]. However, the major limitation with land application of sewage sludge...

In this study, the relationship between land use and land cover change (LUCC) and variation of groundwater table and quality in the SanGong Oasis Region in the western China is investigated using a geospatial approach. Specifically, the interactions among groundwater, surface water, and LUCC are analyzed through the utilization of geographical information system (GIS), remote sensing (RS) image...

in order to evaluate the yield, yield components and protein contents of two wheat cultivars (zarrin and gaspard) in sole cropping and intercropping systems,an experiment was conducted using replacement serious technique and different combinations of intercropping with high plant density and optimal of each cultivar. a factorial experiment was conducted in the form of randomized complete block ...

generally, alluvial basins of arid and semiarid zones are the places with excessive groundwater withdrawal, and also they have a high potential for land subsidence. excessive groundwater withdrawals have caused severe land subsidence in tehran, iran. at present, the maximum land subsidence rate is 36 cm/year, covering an area of nearly 530 km2. in the 2000s, as a result of economic and populati...