Given the evolution in the agricultural sector and the new challenges it faces, managing
agricultural supply chains efficiently has become an attractive topic for researchers and …

Agricultural production systems should evolve fast to cope with risks induced by climate
change. Farmers should adapt their management strategies to stay competitive and satisfy …

The effects of climate change and variability on river flows have been widely studied.
However the impacts of such changes on sediment transport have received comparatively …

This article aims to construct a Land-use Simulation and Decision-Support system
(LandSDS) to comprehensively explore the interference and impact of natural environment …

This paper introduces an enhancement of a cellular automata (CA) model by integrating
system dynamics (SD) to incorporate household dynamics and housing decisions as driving …

Potential increases of phytoplankton concentrations in river systems due to global warming
and changing climate could pose a serious threat to the anthropogenic use of surface …

Genetically-controlled plant resistance can reduce the damage caused by pathogens.
However, pathogens have the ability to evolve and overcome such resistance. This often …

Urban growth is a dynamic and evolutionary spatial and social process. Urban development
can be considered as a function of strategic behavior of the involved agents, which is …

Farmers grow crops in specific sequences to lower disease pressure and boost crop
productivity, particularly in organic farming where artificial pesticides and chemical fertilisers …

ABSTRACT A distributed hydrological model (WaSiM-ETH) was applied to a mesoscale
catchment to investigate natural flood management as a nonstructural approach to tackle …