Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, AF Prein, S Westra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Short-duration (1–3 h) rainfall extremes can cause serious damage to societies
through rapidly developing (flash) flooding and are determined by complex, multifaceted …

Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes—A review on its environmental consequences and climate change

PS Roy, RM Ramachandran, O Paul, PK Thakur… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Springer
The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

Air pollution, climate change, and human health in Indian cities: a brief review

R Kaur, P Pandey - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate change and air pollution have been a matter of serious concern all over the world in
the last few decades. The present review has been carried out in this concern over the …

Review of Circular Economy in urban water sector: Challenges and opportunities in India

NS Kakwani, PP Kalbar - Journal of Environmental Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing urbanization and rapid depletion of resources have forced authorities to shift from
traditional linear system of take-make-use-dispose to circular system of resource …

Impacts of future urbanization on urban microclimate and thermal comfort over the Mumbai metropolitan region, India

B Vinayak, HS Lee, S Gedam, R Latha - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the microclimatic impacts of future urbanization over the Mumbai
Metropolitan Region (MMR) in India using a dynamic downscaling approach. Initially, two …

Unveiling the underestimated direct emissions of nitrous acid (HONO)

Q Zhang, P Liu, Y Wang, C George… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Gaseous nitrous acid (HONO) is a critical source of hydroxyl radicals (OH) in the
troposphere. While both direct and secondary sources contribute to atmospheric HONO …

Linking urbanization and the environment: Conceptual and empirical advances

X Bai, T McPhearson, H Cleugh… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Evaluation of an urban drainage system and its resilience using remote sensing and GIS

GC Guptha, S Swain, N Al-Ansari, AK Taloor… - … Applications: Society and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing number of pluvial floods due to extreme climatic events or poor maintenance
of the drainage networks urge for assessing the performance of the urban drainage system …

Indian summer monsoon: Extreme events, historical changes, and role of anthropogenic forcings

D Singh, S Ghosh, MK Roxy… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The South Asian summer monsoon is a complex coupled human‐natural system that poses
unique challenges for understanding its evolution alongside increasing anthropogenic …

A novel flood risk mapping approach with machine learning considering geomorphic and socio-economic vulnerability dimensions

P Deroliya, M Ghosh, MP Mohanty, S Ghosh… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantifying flood hazards by employing hydraulic/hydrodynamic models for flood risk
mapping is a widely implemented non-structural flood management strategy. However, the …