Prevention/mitigation of natural disasters in urban areas

J Chai, HZ Wu - Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities, 2023 - Springer
Preventing/mitigating natural disasters in urban areas can indirectly be part of the 17
sustainable economic and social development intentions according to the United Nations in …

Insight into land cover dynamics and water challenges under anthropogenic and climatic changes in the eastern Nile Delta: inference from remote sensing and GIS …

YM Youssef, KS Gemail, HM Atia, M Mahdy - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The destabilization of delta's worldwide due to climate change and human activities
presents challenges in meeting the growing demands for freshwater and food. The Nile …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping groundwater potential zones in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand by integrating of analytic hierarchy process, frequency ratio, and random forest

NN Thanh, S Chotpantarat, NH Trung, NH Ngu - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
At the basic level, groundwater potential zone (GWPZ) mapping plays an important role in
sustainable water resource management. There are different approaches to delineating …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigation of urban waterlogging from flash floods hazards in vulnerable watersheds

I Abd-Elaty, A Kuriqi, L Pugliese, M Zelenakova… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region The Aswan region is a vast plateau in the South of Egypt located 150
m above mean sea level (AMSL). Within this region, the tourist city of Aswan is Egypt's …

Challenges and approaches for management of seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers

S Stein, E Shalev, O Sivan, Y Yechieli - Hydrogeology Journal, 2023 - Springer
Coastal aquifers provide water for over one billion people worldwide; however, they face
seawater intrusion due to overpumping. The current and future challenges of coastal aquifer …

Geospatial analytics of driving mechanism of land subsidence in Gulf Coast of Texas, United States

M Younas, SD Khan, O Tirmizi, Y Hamed - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Land subsidence has been an ongoing issue for over a century along the Gulf Coast of
Texas in the United States. This study assesses and models the factors contributing to land …

Impact of modern irrigation methods on groundwater storage and land subsidence in high-water stress regions

I Abd-Elaty, I Fathy, A Kuriqi, AP John… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Springer
Water resources management in high-stress regions is a large-scale problem affecting food
and water security. Therefore, modern irrigation systems such as sprinklers, subsurface, and …

Does flooding get worse with subsiding land? Investigating the impacts of land subsidence on flood inundation from Hurricane Harvey

H Jiang, J Zhang, Y Liu, J Li, ZN Fang - Science of the total environment, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the most devastating tropical storms, 2017 Hurricane Harvey caused severe
flooding and damage in Houston, Texas. Besides enormous rainfall amount, land …

Spatial–temporal characteristics of corrected total phosphorus pollution loads from agricultural non-point sources in Tuojiang River watershed, Sichuan Province of …

J Yao, M Fan, Y Xiao, X Liang, C Cai… - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Traditional method of estimating pollution loads may neglect the internal spatial
heterogeneity of socio-economic driving factors, which can result in overestimate and …

Dynamics of upstream saltwater intrusion driven by tidal river in coastal aquifers

B Zhang, T Zheng, X Zheng, S Jiang, M Cao… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
For the coastal aquifers, recent research have shown that the tidal has a significant effect on
saltwater intrusion in the near-shore aquifer. However, it is currently unclear how the tidal …