Geo-structural scenario of the Upper Inland Niger River Delta as derived from satellite data and ancillary information

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valter Chiarini ◽  
Valeria Eulilli ◽  
Mautizio Poscolieri
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Data ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Niger River ◽  
Ancillary Information

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Oil and Social Movements in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Ojakorotu
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Local People ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
Niger River ◽  
The Government

The discovery of oil in Nigeria since 1956 has inflicted a heavy burden on the local people of the Niger River Delta who have had to contend with the consequences of oil production. The grievances of these local people have persisted for more than three decades without concrete efforts on the part of the government or oil multinationals to address them. The global triumph of capitalism and the fall of communism gave the local people an opportunity to organize social movements with similar interests to international civil society to challenge the policies of successive governments and the activities of oil multinationals in the Niger Delta. This paper addresses the factors that led to a sudden upsurge in the number of social movements in the Niger Delta and how foreign NGOs have played an important role in addressing the plight of the local people of the region.

Hydrological-morphological and landscape features of the Niger River delta

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Kravtsova ◽  
V. N. Mikhailov ◽  
A. S. Kozyukhina
Keyword(s):  
River Delta ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
Niger River

scholarly journals Mapping urban CO2 emissions using DMSP/OLS ‘city lights’ satellite data in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Guangdong Li
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Data ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Central China ◽  
Western China ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Level Energy ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Administrative Units

China, the world’s top CO2 emitter, is faced with pressure of energy-saving emission reduction. In the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21), China announced its plan, aiming to cut down CO2 emissions by 60%–65% per unit of GDP in comparison to 2005’s level by 2030. To achieve this ambitious goal, reliable national, provincial, and city-level statistics are fundamental for multi-scale mitigation policy-makings as well as for the allocation of responsibilities among different administrative units. However, China implemented a top-down energy statistical system. The National Bureau of Statistics only publishes annually both national and provincial energy statistics. Only part of cities released their statistics, which results in missing data in city-level energy statistics. This also affects data transparency and accuracy of energy and CO2 emission statistics, and as a result, increases difficulty in allocation of CO2 emission reduction responsibilities. In order to fill this lacuna, we employed a standardized remote sensing inversion approach for estimating China’s city-level CO2 emissions from energy consumptions by integrating DMSP/OLS ‘city lights’ satellite data and statistical data. The end product is a map of city-level CO2 emissions in China. The most topping CO2 emitters are located in the major urban agglomerations along the more economically developed eastern coast (e.g. Yangtze River Delta, Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, Shandong Peninsula, and Pearl River Delta). Other regions with high CO2 emissions are Shanxi and Henan in Central China, as well as the Chengdu–Chongqing and Shaanxi in West China. Regions with low CO2 emissions are western China, and most of Central China and South China.

scholarly journals SEDIMENTATION STUDIES ON THE NIGER RIVER DELTA

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramiro Mayor-Mora ◽  
Preben Mortensen ◽  
Jorgen Fredsoe
Keyword(s):  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Port Facilities ◽  
Navigation Channel ◽  
Niger River ◽  
Western Portion

An area of the Niger River Delta was studied from October 1974 to October 1975 in connection with feasibility studies and preliminary design for the development of a deep draught port in the Western portion of the Delta. The provision of a"100-kilometer, 8 or 10 m navigation channel through one of the entrances from the sea, up to new port facilities at Warri required comprehensive hydraulic, hydrographic and sedimentation surveys over such period.

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