Informal, small-scale gold mining is a complex, entangled social-natural system that is also the principal livelihood for greater than 40 million individuals residing across more than 70 countries in the global South. While informal gold mining provides extensive socio-economic …
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The experiences and responses of individuals living in mineral enclaves command a lot of scholarly attention. Such attention is evident in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where neoliberal oil exploration has gone on for the past five decades. Yet missing in the delta narratives is th…
An assessment of the groundwater quality at the Olusosun landfill in Lagos, Nigeria was conducted to determine interactions between the landfill wastes and the groundwater and the potential migration of pollutants into the neighbouring communities. Groundwater samples were colle…
Lack of adequate infrastructural services, particularly water supply and sanitation are major constraints to economic and industrial growth in developing countries. Contaminated water resulting from inappropriate sewage disposal is one of the most serious threats to health and p…
Land-based pollution has dramatic effects on coral species diversity, live coral cover, morphological composition of the coral fauna, coral growth rates, coral bioerosion intensity, and reef carbonate budgets. Pollution damage is measured in surveys of eight Java Sea reefs and e…
This thesis introduces a new approach for the control of air pollutant emissions. This technique uses electron beam radiation and ammonia (NH 3) injection to simultaneously oxidize organic pollutants and reduce nitrogen oxide (NO). The objective of this research is to develop a …
Incidence of endocrine disruption in wild fish species has been documented globally and is well characterised in the UK, where the occurrence of intersex in roach (Rutilus rutilus) is widespread. Although this has been associated with concentrations of steroid oestrogens, resear…
The periods of time-varying turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer, i.e.\ the morning and evening transitions, are often overlooked or highly idealised by dispersion models. These transitions make up a significant portion of the diurnal cycle and are known to affect the sp…
Though systems regulating purity and pollution are found in almost every culture and across historical time periods, and though the similarities among the purity systems of different cultures have been noticed, the field of comparative religion has failed to develop sophisticate…
Environmental problems have emerged as global issues that are taken up around the world in different ways. In many developing countries, issues of quality of life, health and well-being in the context of rapid drives to industrialize, the expansive growth of urban areas, and the…
This dissertation illustrates that the concept of "brownfield" in defining and organizing the discourse on contaminated land is a social construction of Western origin, e.g., in the rapidly-industrialized economies of North America and Western Europe, that serves to focus the un…
Firms do not want to have their reputations tarnished with labels such as "worst polluter" or "sweatshop" since these negative stigmas are often accompanied with significant financial repercussions. Due to these costs, social and environmental information about firm behavior is …
In the years 1991 and 1992 combined vertical electric (VES) and electromagnetic (EM) soundings, complemented by chemical analyses of borehole water samples, were made with the ahn of detecting and mapping saline-fresh water interfaces in coastal and estuarine sediments. Two coas…
This thesis will compare three films by Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke) to literary works by North American authors Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being), …
Dendrochemistry has proven success in reconstructing climate histories, mapping environmental change and pollution events, and dating volcanic eruptions. However, there are questions about element mobility within tree rings (translocation) and how this mobility can vary as a fun…
The following research aim to understand the role of the state in the production of sacrifice zones accordingly to the recent academic debate on sacrifice zones as well as the approach of state spatiality and the production of space proposed by Neil Brenner. Specifically it stud…
The presence of legacy and emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment represents a significant threat to aquatic biota, often leading to significant declines of biodiversity. This issue is further aggravated by the influence of abiotic environmental factors, such as climat…