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Papers by Mary Tahir

International journal of research in social sciences, 2013

Solid Waste generation is the by-product of the Urbanization. It is commonly considered as a Urba... more Solid Waste generation is the by-product of the Urbanization. It is commonly considered as a Urban Issue. It is highly related with Economic growth, degree of industrialization and consumption pattern and lavish lifestyle of urbanites. Solid Waste generation and management is a burning issue all over the world and the planners and policy formulators are finding it extremely difficult to handle this problem mainly because of haphazard urbanization. Solid Waste contributes 3% of total Green House Gases Emission Globally, which are culprit for Global Warming and Climate Change. Largely whole of Africa continent is very much vulnerable to the Climate Change. Lack of technological advancement with poverty makes the problem of GHGs emission compound which will prove to be suicidal if not timely tackled.

International journal of research in social sciences, 2012

The development of any country depends on the work and creativity put in by both male and female ... more The development of any country depends on the work and creativity put in by both male and female in every sector of economy. Immense potential is there only it is has to be tapped in the right manner for best results. A country like India having no dearth of human resources unlike many others has to help its woman to come out of the folds of culture, tradition, stereotype thinking as an outcome of its historical and socio-economic background, and be a part and parcel of the list of entrepreneurs. The other factors which inhibit her are her level of education and economic participation, increasing number of offences committed against women and her poor health. However, when a woman decides to work as an entrepreneur after overcoming all the above said hurdles yet she has various obstacles facing her related to lack of role models, wealth, time, experience, networking only to name a few. Once the problems and obstacles are clearly understood steps can be taken to alter, rectify and offer help to the women entrepreneurs by the society at large. Thus it can be concluded that in spite of all the lacunas women can be brought to the forefront and can be made to excel and contribute to the country's economy.

Towards Sustainable Natural Resources, 2022

Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022

Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Aug 21, 2017

The Computational Ecology and Software (CES) is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that... more The Computational Ecology and Software (CES) is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that considers scientific articles in all different areas of computational ecology. It is the transactions of the International Society of Computational Ecology. The journal is concerned with the ecological researches, constructions and applications of theories and methods of computational sciences including computational mathematics, computational statistics and computer science. It features the simulation, approximation, prediction, recognition, and classification of ecological issues. Intensive computation is one of the major stresses of the journal. The journal welcomes research articles, short communications, review articles, perspectives, and book reviews. The journal also supports the activities of the International Society of Computational Ecology. The topics to be covered by CES include, but are not limited to:  Computation intensive methods, numerical and optimization methods, dif...

International journal of paleobiology & paleontology, 2018

The natural landscape has been wiped out in most part of the earth except for those areas which i... more The natural landscape has been wiped out in most part of the earth except for those areas which is either very inaccessible to mankind or is of not much use to him as of now. Material goods have always enticed man over the ages and still do, but a new morn has unsettled mankind on the realization of resources being better for mankind in their natural state than when it is used indiscriminately for various purposes. But this realization has dawned when we have already polluted all spheres and its repercussions have taken a heavy toll too. An attempt has been made to recreate a natural landscape for living in an urban area (New Delhi) which is highly polluted being the capital city and vying with world class cities in providing immaculate infrastructure and amenities. Delhi has changed over the years in terms of weather and climate and its green belts and is now burdened with providing fresh air and water to its teeming inhabitants. This study encompasses the problems of living in small/high rises with terrace above and the heat and cold beating down with change of seasons. This study tries to understand environment and how man can create an urban microenvironment and contribute in biodiversity conservation and diversification and thereby improve the quality of life and provision of natural resources.

Women represent more than one-half of the population. They are still, far from being represented ... more Women represent more than one-half of the population. They are still, far from being represented to that degree in political and administrative programs. In fact, there is absolutely unsafe condition in the society for them, inefficient public transport, strict opening hours of municipal services, unsuitable public transport, are just some examples. It is for this reason, their participation in the decision making process is vital. Equal representation is certainly an excellent means of ensuring that the needs of women are satisfied. Women's experience of living in the city differs greatly from men's. Although a city belongs to those men and women who live there, women's access is limited due to the unsuitability of public places. Developments within the city, infrastructure and urban life in general, are often carried out without consulting women, thereby hindering them from exercising their fundamental right to full citizenship.

Air pollution from motor vehicle in cities specially in developing countries has been a major sou... more Air pollution from motor vehicle in cities specially in developing countries has been a major source of urban air pollution and hence a cause of concern for the administrators of the cities as well as for researchers. In spite of a continuous development in all sectors of Indian economy at the turn of twenty 21th century some of the environmental problems have been appeared like sanitation and waste disposal, water pollution, increasing air pollution and so on. A big segment of environment, quality of air has been deteriorating due to enhancement of emission from the transport sector particularly in large metro cities, has been a big challenge for scientists, politicians, planners and even for common men. Keeping in the view importance of enhancing vehicular numbers and its effect on human health the work was conducted with the objectives, i.e., to find out increasing trend of vehicles in metro cities, to explore the emission added to air by vehicles and to describe the effects of q...

Computational Ecology and Software, 2013

Land use is a dynamic phenomenon that changes with time and space due to anthropogenic pressure a... more Land use is a dynamic phenomenon that changes with time and space due to anthropogenic pressure and development. Evaluating the existing land use and its periodic change is useful for urban planners, policy makers and natural resource managers. Land use and land cover changes in Mekelle City, Ethiopia (north east Africa) over a period of 25 years was studied using remotely sensed data. Multi temporal satellite data of Landsat was used to map and monitor urban land use changes occurred during two point of time of 1985 and 2010. A pixel base supervised image classification was used to map land use land cover classes for maps of both time set. A positive changes of 200% was recorded in urban features of Mekelle, whereas, an area of 6 km 2 was added in grasslands. On the other hand a loss of 92.86% was estimated in bare land and all farm lands available in the area were converted into other feature and it declined from 3 km 2 to nil. Since forest land is protected so that no change in sparse forest was recorded.

Journal of Poverty, Investment and Development, 2015

Increasing Vehicular population and deteriorating quality of air is the by-product of rapid growt... more Increasing Vehicular population and deteriorating quality of air is the by-product of rapid growth of population and haphazard urbanization in India. The urban population in India has increased significantly from 62 million in 1951 to 285 million in 2001 and is estimated to grow to 540 million by the year 2021. In terms of percentage of total population, the urban population has gone up from 17% in 1951 to 29% in 2001 and is expected to increase up to around 37% by the year 2021. About 55 million vehicles were playing on Indian roads in 2001. The annual growth rate of motor vehicle population in India has been about 10% during the decade (1991-2001), It is seen that two wheelers are growing faster than cars. The basic problem is not the number of vehicles in the country but their concentration in a few selected cities, particularly in metropolitan cities. It is alarming to note that 32 percent of all vehicles are plying in metropolitan cities alone; these cities constitute about 11 ...

Civil and environmental research, 2015

Increasing Vehicular population and deteriorating quality of air is the by-product of rapid growt... more Increasing Vehicular population and deteriorating quality of air is the by-product of rapid growth of population in India. Undoubtedly on one hand transport sector plays a significant role in the overall development of a nation's economy, but on the other this sector accounts for a substantial and growing proportion of air pollution also. The urban expansion, industrialization, lack of services, energy and transport demands are leading to a vicious cycle of pollution. According to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main sources of emission are energy (26%), transport (18%), industry (19%) and buildings (10%) are the main sources of emissions. The road traffic accounts for about 80% of the passenger traffic and 60% of the goods. For vehicular motors emits various pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, nitric-oxide, carbon dioxide and several organic compounds which are responsible for the deterioration of the environment. In developing countries like India e...

In developing countries like India especially, increasing demand for private vehicles is outpacin... more In developing countries like India especially, increasing demand for private vehicles is outpacing the supply of transport infrastructure including both road networks and public transit networks. As a result problems related to congestion and air pollution appeared. Transport predominantly relies on the fossil resource, petroleum that supplies 95% of the total energy used by transport in the world. Transport sector is responsible for 23% energy-related GHG emissions with about three quarter coming from road vehicles. The rate is 2% per year, with the highest rates of growth in the emerging economies. CO2 is a major component of GHG emissions from transportation resulting from the combustion of petroleum-based products, like gasoline, in internal combustion engines. India’s auto sector accounts for about 18% of the total CO2 emissions whereas road transport is the largest contributor. This sector consumes about 16.9% fossil fuel based energy sources and produces the toxic pollutants ...

International journal of research in social sciences, 2013

Modeling Earth Systems and Environment

Floods are the most recurrent weather-related natural disaster causing widespread devastation. In... more Floods are the most recurrent weather-related natural disaster causing widespread devastation. In India, about 12% of the land is prone to flood and river erosion where Bihar is the most flood-prone state. The impact of floods becomes more pronounced in areas where population density is relatively high. The study was carried out to prepare a model to identify different levels of flood susceptible zones. A set of multi-sourced geospatial data such as slope, elevation, curvature, rainfall, drainage density, proximity to the river, soil types, land use, stratigraphy, Topographic Ruggedness Index, Sediment Transport Index, and Topographic Wetness Index were considered for the modeling. A flood susceptibility map was produced using Shannon’s entropy model in which the receiver-operating characteristics curve achieved 0.87 accuracy indicating high precision. The outcome of the study demonstrates five different zones of very high, high, medium, low, and very low susceptibility. It was found that very high and high susceptible zones constitute about 52% of the total area that needs a special attention. The findings of the study can be useful to planners and researchers for flood management strategies.

An understanding of the relationship between spatial distribution of animals and their habitats p... more An understanding of the relationship between spatial distribution of animals and their habitats plays an important role in conservation and management of threatened species [1]. Remote sensing and GIS (RS and GIS) can be used as tool for getting information about the habitat preference of the wildlife species. RS and GIS also help in monitoring areas of land for their suitability to endangered species, through integration of various habitat variables of both spatial and non-spatial nature [2]. The outputs of such models are usually simple, easily understandable and can be used for the assessment of environmental impacts or prioritization of conservation efforts in a timely and cost-effective manner [3, 4]. Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) is the smallest deer of the Indian subcontinent, popularly Centre for Research on Settlements and Urbanism Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning J o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: http://jssp.reviste.ubbcluj.ro Habitat degradation and loss has been widely recognized as the main cause for the decline of wildlife population. Evaluating the quality of wildlife habitat can provide essential information for wildlife refuge design and management. The purpose of this study was to produce georeferenced ecological information about suitable habitats available for muntjac, Muntiacus muntjak in Chandoli tiger reserve, India (17 0 04' 00" N to 17 0 19' 54" N and 73 0 40' 43" E to 73 0 53' 09" E). Habitats were evaluated using multiple logistic regression integrated with remote sensing and geographic information system. Satellite imageries of LISS-III of IRS-P6 of study area were digitally processed. To generate collateral data, topographic maps were analysed in a GIS framework. Layers of different variables such as: Landuse land cover, forest density, proximity to disturbances and water resources and a digital terrain model were created from satellite and topographic sheets. These layers along with GPS location of muntjac presence/absence and multiple logistic regression (MLR) techniques were integrated in a GIS environment to model habitat suitability index of muntjac. The results indicate that approximately 222.39 km 2 (75.4%) of the forest of tiger reserve is least suitable for muntjac, whereas, 29.53 km 2 (10.02%) is moderately suitable, 22.12 km 2 (7.5%) suitable and 20.70km 2 (7.0%) is highly suitable. The accuracy level of this model was 97.6%. The model can be considered as effective enough to advocate that forests of this area are most appropriate for declaring it as a reserve for muntjac conservation, ultimately to provide prey base for tiger.

International journal of research in social sciences, 2013

International journal of research in social sciences, 2012

Towards Sustainable Natural Resources, 2022

Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022

Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Aug 21, 2017

International journal of paleobiology & paleontology, 2018

Computational Ecology and Software, 2013

Journal of Poverty, Investment and Development, 2015

Civil and environmental research, 2015

Increasing Vehicular population and deteriorating quality of air is the by-product of rapid growt... more Increasing Vehicular population and deteriorating quality of air is the by-product of rapid growth of population in India. Undoubtedly on one hand transport sector plays a significant role in the overall development of a nation's economy, but on the other this sector accounts for a substantial and growing proportion of air pollution also. The urban expansion, industrialization, lack of services, energy and transport demands are leading to a vicious cycle of pollution. According to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main sources of emission are energy (26%), transport (18%), industry (19%) and buildings (10%) are the main sources of emissions. The road traffic accounts for about 80% of the passenger traffic and 60% of the goods. For vehicular motors emits various pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, nitric-oxide, carbon dioxide and several organic compounds which are responsible for the deterioration of the environment. In developing countries like India e...

International journal of research in social sciences, 2013

Modeling Earth Systems and Environment