Soil and water conservation techniques in tropical and subtropical Asia: A Review

B Huang, Z Yuan, M Zheng, Y Liao, KL Nguyen… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil and water loss is a severe environmental problem in tropical and subtropical Asia
(TSA). This review systematically summarizes the techniques that have been widely applied …

Soil erosion and sediment yield assessment using RUSLE and GIS-based approach in Anjeb watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

L Tsegaye, R Bharti - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Soil erosion is a serious and continuous environmental problem in Ethiopia. Lack of land
use planning, environmental protection, over-cultivation, and overgrazing are prominent …

Assessing soil erosion hazards using land-use change and landslide frequency ratio method: A case study of Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka

S Senanayake, B Pradhan, A Huete, J Brennan - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study aims to identify the vulnerable landscape areas using landslide frequency ratio
and land-use change associated soil erosion hazard by employing geo-informatics …

Land-use/land-cover changes and their impact on surface urban heat islands: Case study of Kandy City, Sri Lanka

D Dissanayake, T Morimoto, M Ranagalage… - Climate, 2019 - mdpi.com
An urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon that shows a higher temperature in urban
areas compared to surrounding rural areas due to the impact of impervious surface (IS) …

Land use and land cover change and its resultant erosion susceptible level: An appraisal using RUSLE and Logistic Regression in a tropical plateau basin of West …

RK Bhattacharya, N Das Chatterjee, K Das - Environment, Development …, 2021 - Springer
Soil erosion trend depends on effective land use and land cover dynamics since
overwhelming population growth in tropical region. The objective of this paper is to assess …

Quantifying soil erosion and influential factors in Guwahati's urban watershed using statistical analysis, machine and deep learning

IA Ahmed, S Talukdar, MRI Baig, GV Ramana… - Remote Sensing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil erosion is a complex environmental issue influenced by rapid climate change, resource
exploitation, and soil degradation etc. These factors have triggered global acceleration of …

Land-use/land cover changes contribute to land surface temperature: a case study of the Upper Indus Basin of Pakistan

A Rehman, J Qin, A Pervez, MS Khan, S Ullah… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Land-use/land cover (LULC) changes have an impact on land surface temperature (LST) at
the local, regional, and global scales. To simulate the LULC and LST changes of the …

Prioritizing sub-watersheds based on soil-erosion potential by integrating RUSLE and game-theory algorithms

M Avand, AN Khiavi, M Mohammadi… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining areas that are experiencing severe soil erosion and prioritizing these areas for
management and conservation planning is a critical contemporary need. The purpose of this …

The impacts of landscape changes on annual mean land surface temperature in the tropical mountain city of Sri Lanka: A case study of Nuwara Eliya (1996–2017)

M Ranagalage, Y Murayama, D Dissanayake… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Although urbanization has contributed to improving living conditions, it has had negative
impacts on the natural environment in urbanized areas. Urbanization has changed the …

Spatial forecasting of the landscape in rapidly urbanizing hill stations of South Asia: A case study of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka (1996–2037)

M Ranagalage, R Wang, M Gunarathna… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Forecasting landscape changes is vital for developing and implementing sustainable urban
planning. Presently, apart from lowland coastal cities, mountain cities (ie, hill stations) are …