Drylands extent and environmental issues. A global approach

R Prăvălie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Drylands, a critical terrestrial system of the Earth due to low water availability, are known for
their extensive global reach, estimated by most scientific sources at approximately 41% of …

Arable lands under the pressure of multiple land degradation processes. A global perspective

R Prăvălie, C Patriche, P Borrelli, P Panagos… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
While agricultural systems are a major pillar in global food security, their productivity is
currently threatened by many environmental issues triggered by anthropogenic climate …

GIS-based comparative assessment of flood susceptibility mapping using hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach, naïve Bayes tree, bivariate statistics and …

SA Ali, F Parvin, QB Pham, M Vojtek, J Vojteková… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flood is a devastating natural hazard that may cause damage to the environment
infrastructure, and society. Hence, identifying the susceptible areas to flood is an important …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the spatial and temporal variability of flood hazard affected by climate and land-use changes in the future

S Janizadeh, SC Pal, A Saha, I Chowdhuri… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The predicts current and future flood risk in the Kalvan watershed of northwestern Markazi
Province, Iran. To do this, 512 flood and non-flood locations were identified and mapped …

Comparison of support vector machines and random forests for corine land cover mapping

A Dabija, M Kluczek, B Zagajewski, E Raczko… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land cover information is essential in European Union spatial management, particularly that
of invasive species, natural habitats, urbanization, and deforestation; therefore, the need for …

Spatio-temporal changes of the climatic water balance in Romania as a response to precipitation and reference evapotranspiration trends during 1961–2013

R Prăvălie, A Piticar, B Roșca, L Sfîcă, G Bandoc… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in precipitation (P), evapotranspiration (ET) and, implicitly, in the climatic
water balance (CWB), are imminent effects of climate warming. However, changes in the …

Quality and health risk assessment associated with water consumption—A case study on karstic springs

A Moldovan, MA Hoaghia, E Kovacs, IC Mirea… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
In rural areas without centralized water supply systems, inhabitants often use groundwater of
unknown quality as drinking water, without understanding the possible negative …

Quantification of land degradation sensitivity areas in Southern and Central Southeastern Europe. New results based on improving DISMED methodology with new …

R Prăvălie, C Patriche, G Bandoc - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Land degradation is considered to be a major environmental problem of the European
continent, especially in the Mediterranean region. This study aims to deliver new results in …

Novel hybrid models between bivariate statistics, artificial neural networks and boosting algorithms for flood susceptibility assessment

R Costache, QB Pham, M Avand, NTT Linh… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Across the world, the flood magnitude is expected to increase as well as the damage caused
by their occurrence. In this case, the prediction of areas which are highly susceptible to …

An index-based approach to assess the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems to aridity and drought in the Danube Delta, Romania

N Damian, B Mitrică, I Mocanu, I Grigorescu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Delta regions are compound socio-ecological systems increasingly exposed to various multi-
hazards (eg, drought, flooding). The Danube Delta, one of the most complex wetland areas …