Environmental risks affecting oxbow lakes are a global concern, encompassing habitat loss,
declining water quality, and biodiversity decline. This review focuses on African oxbow …

The dependency of human wellbeing from ecological systems has been long recognized. At
the same time, ecosystems' integrity and their capacity to sustain human wellbeing have …

Abstract The Araguaia River floodplain is an important biogeographic boundary between the
two largest South American biomes: the Cerrado (Brazilian Savanna) and the Amazon …

A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk
management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and …

Remote sensing plays a central role in the assessment of environmental phenomena and
has increasingly become a powerful tool for monitoring shorelines, river morphology, flood …

The Pantanal is the largest tropical wetland in the world and has extraordinary biodiversity,
being considered of great ecologic value. Besides the intimate dependence of Pantanal …

Floodplains provide an extraordinary quantity and quality of ecosystem services (ES) but are
among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. The uses and transformations of …

Extreme floods resulting from one of the heaviest ever documented rain storms over several
urbanized coastal sub-districts in north-central Türkiye in August 2021, caused severe …

How people value rivers, wetlands and floodplains influences their attitudes, beliefs and
behaviours towards these ecosystems, and can shape policy and management …

The goal of the present review is to collect data on trending scientific discussions on
applying green infrastructure (GI) approaches to the effective use of urban floodplains and …