Ecological sanitation

blood and pus. It was also believed to be called that due to the black rats that started the plague. The plague supposedly originated from the Gobi Desert in central Asia in the 1320s. The plague is believed to have begun during these times due to ecological changes. These changes drove the rats out of their dwellings and closer to human settlement. (Nardo 19) During the fourteenth century, there was a large amount of natural disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, and famine. These…

The RCP8.5 Future of Sub-Saharan Africa and High Northern Latitudes by 2100 1. Introduction 1.1 RCPs and RCP8.5 RCPs is short for Representative Concentration Pathways, which are a set of four new scenarios defined by their approximate total radiative forcing in 2100 relative 1750: 2.6 W/m2 for RCP2.6, 4.5 W/m2 for RCP4.5, 6.0 W/m2 for RCP6.0, and 8.5 W/m2 for RCP8.5, for the Fifth Assessment Report of IPCC. RCP2.6 represents a mitigation scenario resulting in a very low forcing level. RCP4.5…

Historically, health practitioners used to work in communities with clients who had similar or same cultural and ethnic backgrounds to their own. However, with the changing dynamics of the world, the ethnic and cultural compositions of communities have now become cosmopolitan. Different cultures have different systems of health beliefs to explain what causes illness, how it can be cured or treated, and who should be involved in the process. The extent to which patients perceive patient education…

INTRODUCTION Bananas are one of the most important food crops in most of the African countries. About 75% of the farmers grow the crop on 1.3million hectares in Africa. Most of this production is for local consumption. They are amongst the most important commercial subtropical fruits grown in South Africa and are planted for sale in local markets or self-consumption and only a fraction of all bananas are sold in the world markets. The production technologies used for small scale and commercial…