European Geographical Studies

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Authors: Soufiane Boukarta

This paper aims to give more understanding reasons of the energy implication of the socio-economic criteria in an arid and semi-arid climate zone based on a statistical approach. The paper considers the yearly Gas and electricity energy consumption (2013) of the municipalities of the department of Djelfa. The method is organised in three steps; (a) A multiple linear regression is used to perform two estimative models of Gas and Electricity. The models performed have more than 99 % of accuracy for both models. (b) Estimating Gas and energy consumption for 2008 according to the developed models. (c) Organisation of the census Data of 2008 in six dimensions: The structural dimension of the municipal territory, population characteristics and activities, dwelling typology and occupancy and finally the households’ appliance possession. (d) A set of sensitivity analysis is performed based on Principal Component Analysis (PCAs) and Pearson’s bi-variate correlation. The results show globally that the socio-economic criteria are reducing the energy consumption by – 11.3 % the Gas consumption while it increases the Electricity consumption by 2.7 %. The most important factors reducing Electricity consumption are population activities and dwelling occupancy while all the six socio-economic dimensions are reducing gas consumption.

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Authors: Vineet Kumar Rai, Pravin Kumar, Praveen Kumar Rai

This paper presents the current status of solid waste management, future estimation of waste generation and related problems in Varanasi city, India. The city is located on the proper ridge of kanker which forms the northern bank of the river Ganga for distance of little over 5 km. This part of the city is quite above the normal flood level. The city is 76.21m above the sea level. Varanasi (250 13’N to 250 24’N latitudes and from 820 54’E to 830 04’E longitude) is one of the most important and historic city located almost in the middle Ganga valley in the northern plain of India. For the convenience of civic administration, the city is presently divided into 90 Wards and 14 sanitary wards. Present work is based on the secondary data, in the first phase of the study, data pertaining to ward wise generation of solid Waste and distributions of waste storage depots for secondary storage is collected from MCV (Municipal Corporation Varanasi). The data regarding population is obtained from District Census Handbook, 2011. Data on generation of solid waste is calculated by multiplying the urban population by the amount of waste generated per capita per day. In the second phase of the study, ArcGIS.10.1 software was used to create maps for municipal solid waste management. Besides this preliminary field investigation was also conducted through GPS. The results shows that Like other cities in India, Varanasi is also facing the problems created by improper and unscientific disposal of solid waste. Due to increasing population, change in dietary habits, standard of living, consumption pattern of commodity and lack of awareness, the problem of collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste has become a herculean task for the local civic bodies or the municipal corporation of the city.