In the context of climate change, increases in extreme weather have caused a series of
problems, severely reduced crop yield, and caused a loss of agricultural cultivation. In …

Rapid increase in population and growing concentration of capital in urban areas has
escalated both the severity and longer-term impact of natural disasters. As a result, Disaster …

An empirical approach was employed to monitor changes in soil erosion status in China,
incorporating landform, slope, vegetation coverage, land use/cover, and expert …

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes strongly affect local hydrology and sediment
yields. The current study focused on a basin in the Brazilian Amazon and had the following …

International policies and guidelines often highlight the divide between 'nature'and
'heritage'in landscape management, and the weakness of monodisciplinary approaches …

Universal soil loss equation (USLE) was used in conjunction with a geographic information
system to determine the influence of land use and land cover change (LUCC) on soil …

Soil erosion by water has accelerated over recent decades due to non-sustainable land use
practices resulting in substantial land degradation processes. Spatially explicit information …

Land use is one of the key factors affecting soil erosion in the Loess Plateau of China. This
paper examines soil erosion under different land uses and land-use combinations using 137 …

Jordan is dominated by arid ecosystems that are vulnerable to human interventions and
activities. It receives little rainfall with high intensity, which renders land degradation, soil …

Background Increased flooding and newly formed rills and gullies were observed in the
Cheleleka wetland watershed, over the past three to five years. These events are due to …