Geetha Mohan's research while affiliated with University of Toyama and other places

Publications (41)

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The study evaluates the farmers' choices and adoption of adaptation measures and plans by smallholder farmers to reduce the effects of climate change on their farming activities. We conducted a systematic review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. We found 66 associated studies to understand...
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An adequate water supply is essential for the continued and sustainable growth of the Balinese economy. In addition to mounting water demand, Bali’s water supply has been constrained by high levels of water pollution. Despite being paid great attention, Bali’s earlier efforts to control water pollution yet to prove effective, mainly owing to their...
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The demand for organic foods is increasing worldwide due to health and environmental benefits. However, there are several unanswered questions, such as: Do organic farmers generate higher profits? Will the cost of cultivation reduce to compensate for low yields? Can farmers practice as per the organic agriculture protocols and obtain certification?...
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The newly enacted national water policy is envisioned as ensuring water sustainability in Nepal. Despite theoretical pertinence, questions remain about the effective implementation due to limited studies on key aspects of sustainability, such as water supply and demand, pollution, and impacts of climate change and socio-economic growth. This study...
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Even though currently at the growth stage, many developing countries are projected to experience urban shrinkage in the future, which demands long-term actions to improve urban sustainability. The study's objective is to investigate the feasibility of using urban agriculture as an open space management strategy under future shrinking and ageing sce...
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Background In this study, we present the current situation and the role of agricultural extension services for farmers and indicates the potential solutions for the optimum effectiveness of these services. Thus, we investigate the vital determinants influencing the farmers’ attitudes toward using agricultural extension services in Ghana and Zambia....
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Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an approach that can be used to estimate COVID-19 prevalence in the population by detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA in wastewater. As the WBE approach uses pooled samples from the study population, it is an inexpensive and non-invasive mass surveillance method compared...
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Multifunctionality of urban agriculture can support the resolve of many urban challenges. There-fore, it is vital to understand the contribution of academic studies on urban agriculture practices as scientific information. The present study followed a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA method. Finally, 54 identified articles were anal...
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In determining the effectiveness of agricultural extension approaches, there is limited consideration of farmers opinion. A focus has been on measuring productivity. This comparative study presents farmers’ opinion towards the effectiveness of agriculture extension and the important characteristics influencing the farmers’ opinion towards the effec...
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An adequate water supply is essential for the continued and sustainable growth of the Balinese economy. In addition to mounting water demand, Bali’s water supply has been compromised by high levels of water pollution. Despite being paid great attention, Bali’s earlier efforts to control water pollution yet to prove effective, mainly owing to their...
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This paper aims to assess the influence of land use and land cover (LULC) indicators and population density on water quality parameters during dry and rainy seasons in a tourism area in Indonesia. This study applies least squares regression (OLS) and Pearson correlation analysis to see the relationship among factors, and all LULC and population den...
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A basis of fundamental knowledge of different basic income approaches (BI) is essential to be elaborated for enhancing the prevalent debates on BI as an important solution on social transformation. Aiming to contribute to the current knowledge gaps and future research agendas on BI, this paper elaborates on BI theories and BI empirical cases, linka...
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Urbanization and concomitant challenges pose a great threat to sustainable development. Urban and rural development interacts through the flows of people, materials, energy, goods, capital, and information. Without building sound urban–rural linkages, achieving development in one area could compromise it in another area. Achieving sustainable devel...
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This paper undertakes a systematic review of the literature to understand current trends in the food–energy–water (FEW) nexus for development-oriented policy support. The paper follows three steps: (a) a bibliometric analysis of FEW nexus research, (b) a content analysis of FEW nexus research, and (c) development of a framework that fills existing...
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Rice is the staple food for majority of the population worldwide and is a water-consuming crop. Decreasing water availability due to climate change necessitates the development of water saving rice production technology. The objective of this study was to develop water management strategies for two contrast scenarios of water availability for impro...
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This paper provides an extended input–output (IO) model of sectoral water consumption for Bali, a province located in Indonesia that is a well-known global tourist destination. Currently, the province is experiencing water shortages, which leads to a burden and heavy competition in water usage among the various economic sectors. We developed a meth...
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Nepal’s efforts to reduce manufacturing-related water pollution have faltered because they rely on traditional methods and regulation. We employed an environmentally extended input–output model to establish direct and indirect relations between water pollution and production in 19 Nepalese manufacturing sectors. We identify which are chief emitters...
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Child malnutrition is a major sustainability challenge in many rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although many different types of interventions have been promoted in the past decades to reduce child malnutrition in the region, it is not always clear whether they are effective in reducing it (and its long-lasting effects). This chapter examin...
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Droughts and floods are some of the major climatic hazards in the semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Climate change affects the periodicity and severity of such hazards, and eventually the well-being of many rural communities in the region, including semi-arid Ghana. Enhancing the resilience of local communities to droughts and floods wou...
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Bali has been open to tourism since the beginning of the 20th century and is known as the first tourist destination in Indonesia. The Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar, and Tabanan (Sarbagita) areas experience the most rapid growth of tourism activity in Bali. This rapid tourism growth has caused land use and land cover (LULC) to change drastically. This s...
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With increasing interest in basic income (BI) in recent years around the world, a precise understanding of public attitudes toward this policy can provide valuable evidence for discussions on its feasibility among scholars and policymakers. This study quantitatively investigates what factors influence public attitudes toward implementing BI, taking...
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The soiling of solar panels from dry deposition affects the overall efficiency of power output from solar power plants. This study focuses on the detection and monitoring of sand deposition (wind-blown dust) on photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in arid regions using multitemporal remote sensing data. The study area is located in Bhadla solar park of R...
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For countries in Southeast Asia that mainly rely on surface water as their water resource, changes in weather patterns and hydrological systems due to climate change will cause severely decreased water resource availability. Warm weather triggers more water use and exacerbates the extraction of water resources, which will change the operation patte...
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To achieve sustainable development in Ghana, key challenges in urban–rural linkages that must be addressed are inequality and gender gaps, poor infrastructure, food security and livelihoods, partial decentralization, and poor access to financial support. Prioritized solutions consist of  Gender inclusiveness  Investment in basic and economic infr...
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Highlights The sustainability of water, sanitation, and health in urban areas in Malawi is crippled by unreliable water supply, limited access to safe water, low sanitation coverage in peri-urban areas, degradation of water catchment areas, poor waste management, and limited institutional capacity. To tackle these challenges, we recommend that Mala...
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Urban-rural linkages are an integral part of fostering development in both urban and rural communities. However, the focus on development tends to have an urban bias toward Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an increase in urbanization. Ghana is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in SSA. This paper sought to identify the challenges of urban-rural l...
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Since the 1950s, the Government of India and the States Governments have invested large capitals in rural water supply with very positive outcomes. However, the intensification of industrial and human activities and the rising population growth are increasing competing demands on scarce water resources. While urban centers are coping with water sca...
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Due to the rapid increase of land use in the Bali province, it follows that there would be a gradual effect on water quality since it has been widely agreed by the scientific community that there is a significant relationship between land use and water quality. To evaluate this association, this study examined the effect of spatial variation betwee...
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Despite being rich in fresh water resources, water shortage is a major issue in many parts of Nepal. The water use arrangements among various sectors are commonly institutionalized through the agreement between the water use activities, which seems to be more challenging under the changing socio-economic and political situation. The study examined...
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Water deficiency poses a severe threat to food security, and it creates an uncertainty that has to be overwhelmed in the process of socio-economic development of India. Therefore, it is needed to adopt water-saving irrigation technologies to avoid water scarcity in the future. This study explores the determinants influencing the adoption of water-s...
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Water remains a challenging issue for sustainable development. It remarks as the 6 th goal of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (UN). UN targeted to increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of pe...
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Cropping intensity is one of the most important decisions made independently by farmers in Vietnam. It is a crucial variable of various economic and process-based models. Rice is grown under irrigated triple-and double-rice cropping systems and a rainfed single-rice cropping system in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). These rice cropping systems a...
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Water is a critical element that is needed to create and maintain jobs across all sectors of the country economies. In the Asian perspective, maximum of the industries driving economic growth depend upon a reliable supply of freshwater for large parts of their production processes and whereas, failure to secure an adequate and reliable supply of wa...
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This chapter summarizes 3 years of widespread research conducted under Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research in Asia (CECAR-Asia). The main aim of this study was to build agroecological bioproduction systems that adapt to climate change and to propose measures to enhance the resilience of rural production systems in three countries in r...
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This chapter introduces the influence of climatic and ecosystem changes in agricultural communities across rural Asia including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Across various case studies in three major themes, this chapter outlines the structure and approach to lead the potential solutions to the...
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This book summarizes three years of extensive research conducted in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Vietnam as part of the CECAR – Asia project, which was intended to enhance resilience to climate and ecosystem changes by developing mosaic systems to strengthen resilience of bio-production systems through the integration of large-scale modern agriculture...
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Currently in many cities and rural areas of Vietnam, wastewater is discharged to the environment without any treatment, which emits considerable amount of greenhouse gas (GHG), particularly methane. In this study, four GHG emission scenarios were examined, as well as the baseline scenario, in order to verify the potential of GHG reduction from dome...
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This paper examines the effects of agricultural research expenditure and climate change on agricultural productivity growth by region in Ghana. A panel dataset is constructed for 2000-2009 from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana; and the Agriculture Science and Technology Indicat...

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... Further, there are scant empirical studies on interactions between adaptation strategies recommended for farmers and their contributions toward achieving SDGs (1: no poverty and 2: zero hunger) in Africa, particularly in Tanzania. SDGs 1 and 2 are the most critical goals in Africa as the region is the poorest and most food insecure globally [9]. Agriculture is the primary economic activity, which employs many people on the continent, and is considered an important sector in alleviating poverty, ending hunger, and achieving food security [9]. ...
... Water is associated with many sectors and affects the increases and decreases in production of sectors [11]; water stands out as the most critical sustainable development challenge since it deals with the most valuable and limited resource on earth. If water becomes scarce or threatened, it causes risks to economic, social, and environmental sustainability [12]. Moreover, water also influences the increases and decreases in SDG indicators, as demonstrated in the literature on SDG interlinkages [8]. ...
... Farmers may also have information on appropriate crop varieties depending on the weather and climatic condition at the local level [15][16][17]. Access to smart climate agricultural information such as conservation agriculture (minimum tillage/crop residue retention, crop diversity/association and crop rotation) is also critical for adaptation in Zambia [19,20]. In addition, crop and livestock diversification information is key to climate change adaptation to ensure resilience to climate-related shocks [15][16][17]. ...
... Surveillance efforts take place at multiple scales: building or facility (Gibas et al., 2021;Scott et al., 2021;Sellers et al., 2022;Vo et al., 2022), neighborhood (Ahmed et al., 2021;Haak et al., 2022;Rios et al., 2021), and city or wastewater treatment plant (Gonzalez et al., 2020;Smyth et al., 2022;Swift et al., 2021). The U.S. of individuals by clinical testing, it can be implemented in low to middle income countries (Shrestha et al., 2021), which furthers a more equitable response to global health crises such as pandemics. ...
... As a result, the potential multifunctionality offered by UA is not yet engaged in land use planning in many places, which is one of the main obstacles to its adoption, especially in the Global South, where NBS are still timidly implemented [66]. Therefore, understanding UA's multifunctionality in different geographic contexts is fundamental for its incorporation into urban planning [67]. ...
... Current foreign research about rural sustainability focused on explanation of concepts and theoretical connotations, such as "rural" and "rurality" (Crouch et al., 2022;Hecht, 2010;Murchie et al., 2018). And some scholars used international regional sustainable development indicators to evaluate rural development from economic, ecology, and social aspects (Baffoe et al., 2021;Diaz-Sarachaga, 2020). More attention in Chinese research has been given to rural sustainable development involving agricultural and rural modernization evaluation and rural revitalization evaluation (Hu et al., 2022;Wang et al., 2020;Zhang et al., 2020). ...
... Thus, the industry is expected to have a high multiplier effect on the economy with relatively low elasticity emissions and better income distribution. According to [24], the Leontief Input-Output (IO) model is crucial for structural analysis and is widely used in the global academic community. Technically, this paper develops the standard IO into Miyazawa IO and has a more detailed energy balance to identify ICTrelated sectors and support a green economy, promoting sustainable development. ...
... As an example, most of the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in surface water (including groundwater) are related to agricultural activities (Woli et al. 2004;Zou et al. 2020), and organic pollution can be driven by industry and domestic wastewater discharged from activities in urban areas (Yu et al. 2016). Different methods were employed to investigate the impacts of land uses on water quality such as multivariate statistical methods including ensemble of ordinary least squares (OLS) (Rimba et al. 2021) and stepwise multiple linear regression (SMLR) (Lei et al. 2021), geographically weighted regression (Wu et al. 2017), and redundancy analysis (RDA) (Peng and Li 2021), as well as hydrological models (Zeiger et al. 2021). Among these techniques, RDA proved to be one of the most efficient methods and obtained common usage in different parts of the world, recently. ...
... For example, some reviews have focused on the origin, description, theory and practice of the nexus approach, with particular reference to the water-energy-food nexus (Allouche et al., 2015;Leck et al., 2015;Scott et al., 2015;Endo et al., 2017;Simpson and Jewitt, 2019). Some reviews have focused on bibliometric trends, again mostly focusing on the waterenergy-food nexus (Albrecht et al., 2018;Newell et al., 2019;Itayi et al., 2021;Proctor et al., 2021;Taguta et al., 2022). Other reviews have focused on the state of knowledge and future research directions about the nexus approach in relation to the global sustainability agenda (Boas et al., 2016;Liu et al., 2018;van Zanten and van Tulder, 2021). ...
... The pressure resulting from the driving force leads to changes in the state of environmental components, such as water, air, and soil quality. This environmental degradation creates an elevated threat to economic growth and development (Chapagain et al., 2020). Change in environmental quality is a combination of physical, chemical, and biological conditions. ...