Cultural heritage sites, particularly those in mountainous regions face serious threats as
mountains are hazardous places and many of them are located on shifting tectonic plates …

Abstract The Indian Himalayan region is highly susceptible to landslides because of its
complex geology, rugged topography, steep slopes augmented by seismo-tectonic activities …

Landslide is considered as one of the most severe threats to human life and property in the
hilly areas of the world. The number of landslides and the level of damage across the globe …

Flooding is the overflow of water from stream, river, lake and sea that occurs all over the
world and has disastrous effects on human society and environment. Frequent severe flood …

The concept of leveraging the predictive capacity of predisposing factors for landslide
susceptibility (LS) modeling has been continuously improved in recent work focusing on …

Land degradation is very severe in the subtropical monsoon-dominated region due to the
uncertainty of rainfall in the long term, and most of the rainfall occurs with high intensity and …

The occurrences of flash floods in sub-tropical climatic regions like India are ubiquitous
phenomena, particularly during the monsoon season. This type of flood occurs within a short …

The landslide is a downward movement of soil and rock, and one of the most destructive geo-
hazards that causes losses in lives, environment, and economy all over the world. Landslide …

The vulnerability of groundwater to over-exploitation has been assessed in Goghat-I and II
blocks of West Bengal using a number of different methods, ie, MCDA, AHP, fuzzy logic and …

Across the globe, the damage caused by urban floods has increased manifold. The
unchecked development has encroached the natural drainage, and the conventional …