Technologies for municipal solid waste management: Current status, challenges, and future perspectives

S Khan, R Anjum, ST Raza, NA Bazai, M Ihtisham - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is a reflection of the culture that generates it and has a
negative impact on the health of the humans and the environment. In the global context …

The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability

H Nagendra, X Bai, ES Brondizio, S Lwasa - Nature sustainability, 2018 - nature.com
Urbanization is a global phenomenon with strong sustainability implications across multiple
scales. We argue that much of the associated challenges, and opportunities, are found in the …

Spatiotemporal variation in land use land cover in the response to local climate change using multispectral remote sensing data

S Hussain, L Lu, M Mubeen, W Nasim, S Karuppannan… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change is likely to have serious social, economic, and environmental impacts on
farmers whose subsistence depends on nature. Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes …

Water quality prospective in Twenty First Century: Status of water quality in major river basins, contemporary strategies and impediments: A review

S Giri - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Water quality improvement is one of the top priorities in the global agenda endorsed by
United Nation. In this review manuscript, a holistic view of water quality degradation such as …

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

SJ McGrane - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there
remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes …

CA-Markov chain analysis of seasonal land surface temperature and land use land cover change using optical multi-temporal satellite data of Faisalabad, Pakistan

A Tariq, H Shu - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cellular Automata models are used for simulating spatial distributions and Markov Chain
models are used for simulating temporal changes. The main aim of this study is to …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling and quantifying tomorrow's risks from natural hazards

G Cremen, C Galasso, J McCloskey - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding and modelling future risks from natural hazards is becoming increasingly
crucial as the climate changes, human population grows, asset wealth accumulates, and …

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

KC Seto, B Güneralp, LR Hutyra - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Urban land-cover change threatens biodiversity and affects ecosystem productivity through
loss of habitat, biomass, and carbon storage. However, despite projections that world urban …

The 'urban age'in question

N Brenner, C Schmid - … journal of urban and regional research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Foreboding declarations about contemporary urban trends pervade early twenty‐first
century academic, political and journalistic discourse. Among the most widely recited is the …

Systems approaches to integrated solid waste management in developing countries

RE Marshall, K Farahbakhsh - Waste management, 2013 - Elsevier
Solid waste management (SWM) has become an issue of increasing global concern as
urban populations continue to rise and consumption patterns change. The health and …