Assessment and mapping of groundwater vulnerability to pollution: Current status and challenges

D Machiwal, MK Jha, VP Singh, C Mohan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing groundwater contamination across the globe triggered the concept of “aquifer
vulnerability”, which has been extensively used worldwide during past three to four decades …

Groundwater vulnerability assessment: A review including new statistical and hybrid methods

N Taghavi, RK Niven, DJ Paull, M Kramer - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The concept of groundwater vulnerability was first introduced in the 1970s in France to
recognize sensitive areas in which surface pollution could affect groundwater, and to enable …

A review of GIS-integrated statistical techniques for groundwater quality evaluation and protection

D Machiwal, V Cloutier, C Güler, N Kazakis - Environmental Earth …, 2018 - Springer
Water quality evaluation is critically important for the protection and sustainable
management of groundwater resources, which are variably vulnerable to ever-increasing …

Flood management and a GIS modelling method to assess flood-hazard areas—a case study

NN Kourgialas, GP Karatzas - Hydrological Sciences Journal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a viable approach for flood management strategy in a river basin based
on the European Floods Directive. A reliable flood management plan has two …

Landfill site selection using spatial information technologies and AHP: a case study in Beijing, China

G Wang, L Qin, G Li, L Chen - Journal of environmental management, 2009 - Elsevier
Site selection is an important and necessary issue for waste management in fast-growing
regions. Because of the complexity of waste management systems, the selection of the …

Solid waste disposal site selection with GIS and AHP methodology: a case study in Senirkent–Uluborlu (Isparta) Basin, Turkey

Ş Şener, E Sener, R Karagüzel - Environmental monitoring and …, 2011 - Springer
The appropriate site selection for waste disposal is one of the major problems in waste
management. Also, many environmental, economical, and political considerations must be …

Novel hybrid integration approach of bagging-based fisher's linear discriminant function for groundwater potential analysis

W Chen, B Pradhan, S Li, H Shahabi… - Natural Resources …, 2019 - Springer
Groundwater is a vital water source in the rural and urban areas of developing and
developed nations. In this study, a novel hybrid integration approach of Fisher's linear …

Environmental impact assessment of mountain tourism in developing regions: A study in Ladakh, Indian Himalaya

D Geneletti, D Dawa - Environmental impact assessment review, 2009 - Elsevier
Mountain tourism in developing countries is becoming a growing environmental concern
due to extreme seasonality, lack of suitable infrastructures and planning, and interference …

Multi-criteria decision making approach for watershed prioritization using analytic hierarchy process technique and GIS

VM Chowdary, D Chakraborthy, A Jeyaram… - Water resources …, 2013 - Springer
Watershed prioritization based on the natural resources and physical processes involves
locating critical areas of erosion, which produce maximum sediment yield to take up …

Assessment of groundwater contamination risk using hazard quantification, a modified DRASTIC model and groundwater value, Beijing Plain, China

J Wang, J He, H Chen - Science of the total environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Groundwater contamination risk assessment is an effective tool for groundwater
management. Most existing risk assessment methods only consider the basic contamination …