Climate information services (CIS) are increasingly viewed as a means to achieve greater resilience to climate hazards. However, the architecture of CIS is not always sensitive to the needs of all of its users. To understand ...

Refrigeration and air conditioning systems are essential requirements for human needs, and, this followed by an increasing demand for electric energy. The recent trend in research and development find such systems to be ...

Electricity shortage in Nigeria is very critical hence, need arises for joint, adequate and timely intervention especially by incorporating the available alternative energy sources. This paper is aimed at designing a ...

The population in Burkina Faso (BF) is rapidly adopting irrigation to adapt to negative impacts of climate change (CC) like prolonged drought, rainfall variability and desertification. However, due to high initial cost of ...

Climate change is now considered as one of the most serious global threat to sustainable development. Currently, knowledge is plentiful on how to adapt to climate change and build resilience to its impacts, but putting ...

The West African Sahel is a vast ecological zone separating the Sahara desert to the north and Sudanian savannah to the south; traversing Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, northern Nigeria and Chad. With a population ...

Algeria’s energy mix is almost exclusively based on fossil fuels (Meriem in Renewable Energy in Algeria Reality and Perspective, pp. 1–19, 2018) [1], especially natural gas. However, the country has enormous renewable ...

Energy demand continues to rise due to rising population and hence, strong need arises for efficient and judicious utilization of clean and alternative energy sources in ensuring a sustainable future. Focussing on the ...

Currently, renewable energies can provide a sustainable and alternative solution for generating reverse osmosis systems operating at high pressure. The production of fresh and potable water by solar water desalination ...

Clean and Improved energy access is the topmost priority in the African continent and the globe at large due to persistent energy demand rise and the challenge of climate change. The persistent increase in the energy demand ...