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 …

Europe has experienced a series of major floods in the past years which suggests that flood
magnitudes may have increased. Land degradation due to soil compaction from crop …

This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and
severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two …

Nigeria has Africa's biggest economy and a population of over 200 million people. Nigeria
faces numerous challenges as it struggles to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals …

Low impact development (LID) is a land development approach that seeks to mimic a site's
pre-development hydrology. This study is a case study that assessed flood reduction …

This study developed and used an integrated modeling system, coupling a distributed
hydrologic and a dynamic land-use change model, to examine effects of urbanization on …

Baseflow is the portion of streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to
stream channels by delayed (usually subsurface) pathways. Understanding baseflow …

Glass has been overwhelmingly used for windows and facades in modern constructions, for
many practical reasons, including thermal, energy, light and aesthetics. Nevertheless, due to …

Water-energy nexus plays a vital role to re-phase, plan and develop an urban region for the
present and future demands. This phenomenon is complex because of many inter …

There is a long tradition of the use of methods based on the statistical theory of extreme
values in hydrology, particular for engineering design (eg, for the proverbial “100-yr flood”) …