Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural
processes and their impacts, ie, geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic …

Vulnerability to floods and droughts is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon
influenced by various factors. This systematic review paper focuses on communities' …

Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect
land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of …

The ever-increasing need for water, the alteration in the climate, and its observed changes
over recent years have triggered a lot of research studies associated with the phenomenon …

The questions of scale, limit, and areal extent are central points for any drought assessment
effort. Drought indices, such as the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the …

Natural resources degradation poses multiple challenges particularly to environmental and
economic processes. It is usually difficult to identify the degree of degradation and the critical …

Identifying ecologically fragile areas by assessing ecosystem vulnerability is an essential
task in environmental conservation and management. Benin is considered a vulnerable …

Vulnerabilities of different regions to drought are under the influence of different factors such
as the land use, accessibility to the surface and subsurface water resources, etc. In this …

The scope of the present research is to assess drought events using the Standardized
Precipitation Index (SPI), which can provide accurate results of drought features on a …

Simple Summary Global climate change is causing more frequent and severe droughts,
which can have serious impacts on our environment. To examine how a severe drought in …