The quality of our environment has become the predominant issue of today. In Florida, as well as other states in the country, there has been particular concern over the quality of our lakes. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that, of the 12 million lakes found in the United States, 25% are currently facing water quality problems (Nair and Graetz, 1997). Eutrophicat...

nvironment includes all living and non-living objects. We live in the environment and use the environmental resources like air, land and water to meet our needs. Development also means meeting the needs of the people. While meeting the ever-growing needs, we put pressure on the environment. When the pressure exceeds the carrying capacity of the environment to repair or replace itself, it create...

An interactive and participative approach to involve and mobilise rural communities in water quality control programmes was investigated. Agro-rural watersheds are experiencing serious environmental degradation mainly because of inappropriate land use practices due to various competing and opposing priorities in the community. The communities tend to concentrate on availability of land and wate...

It has been widely accepted that there is a close relationship between the land use type and water quality. There have been some researches on this relationship from the perspective of the spatial configuration of land use in recent years. This study aims to analyze the influence of various land use types on the water quality within the Chaohu Lake Basin based on the water quality monitoring da...

" The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! " —Bryan W. Procter, ca. 1837 There appears to have been little consideration given to the concept of marine reserves in open-ocean ecosystems , whereas a large number of protected areas for coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems have been or are now being developed around the world (Agardy 1994; Rowley 1994). We argue that,...

The Yangtze River Economic Belt, which is an important development axis of China’s “T-shaped” strategy, has been challenged by water resource utilization and environment protection due to the rapid social economy. In this study, understand variation characteristics, competition cooperation relationship, optimal stable point synergetic capability “water resource–water environment–socioeconomic d...

Many decisions taken today will have long term consequences on time scales ranging from one or two decades to 50 or 100 years or beyond. Building design, flood protection measures and water resource planning often involve substantial investment in assets which we hope will be suitable for these very long periods. Over such time periods we know that the earth’s climate will undergo substantial f...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...