Supply chain network design (SCND) is a large and growing area of research. Although
SCND has a remarkable effect on companies' main financial accounts, our examination …

Soil piping is a widespread, although often overlooked land degradation process. So far,
subsurface soil erosion studies have been focused on the importance of soil piping in …

Gully erosion is a disruptive phenomenon which extensively affects the Iranian territory,
especially in the Northern provinces. A number of studies have been recently undertaken to …

A quantitative understanding of the hydro-environmental factors that influence the
occurrence of agricultural drought events would enable more strategic climate change …

Land subsidence caused by land use change and overexploitation of groundwater is an
example of mismanagement of natural resources, yet subsidence remains difficult to predict …

This study evaluates the utility of the ensemble framework of feature selection and machine
learning (ML) models for regional landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) in the arid climatic …

The extreme form of land degradation caused by the formation of gullies is a major
challenge for the sustainability of land resources. This problem is more vulnerable in the arid …

Landslide susceptibility (LS) mapping is an essential tool for landslide risk assessment. This
study aimed to provide a new approach with better performance for landslide mapping and …

Piping erosion is one of the water erosions that cause significant changes in the landscape,
leading to environmental degradation. To prevent losses resulting from tube growth and …

Landslide susceptibility mapping is a prerequisite for preventing and mitigating hazardous
risks, especially in landslide-prone mountainous areas. This study applies two well-known …