Mapping Carbon Storage and Sequestration in Nigeria: A REDD Policy Initiatives

Uwadiegwu Ibeabuchi

Volume 3, Issue 3 , September 2023, , Pages 11-29

https://doi.org/10.52293/WES.3.3.1129

Abstract
  Forests play an important role in removing carbon from the atmosphere and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide and store as carbon while fire, disease, vegetation conversion such as land use change releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In this study, InVEST model was adopted ...  Read More

Mapping the Environmental and Economic Cost of Soil Loss on the Resiliency of Abia State Hydrological Basin: A study between 1972 and 2015

Uwadiegwu Ibeabuchi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 1-21

https://doi.org/10.52293/WES.3.2.121

Abstract
  Soil erosion is one of the major environmental issues which has caused considerable economic damage and still remains an intractable problem in many parts of Abia state. InVEST model was used to map the environmental and economic cost of soil loss by studying: (1.) sediment exported and retained from ...  Read More

Mapping Seasonal Flood Inundation and Developing an Early Warning System for Lagos Metropolis (Nigeria): A study between 1990 and 2011

Uwadiegwu Ibeabuchi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 48-67

https://doi.org/10.52293/WES.3.2.4867

Abstract
  Flooding has become a major environmental hazard in Lagos metropolis in recent years due to its topography, population growth, rapid urbanization and extreme weather events such as rainfall. Seasonal flood inundation simulation was modeled and an early warning system was developed for Lagos metropolis ...  Read More