Soil erosion is one of the most critical hazards adversely affecting both environment and
economy. Assessment of the annual soil erosion rate provides information on soil erosion …

Background The ecological vulnerability assessment (EVA) is employed as a tool for
integrated evaluation of the ecosystem with the help of indicators belonging to natural …

Abstract In Shanxi Province, China, groundwater is a major problem and exploration of
groundwater potential zones (GWPZs) is a great necessity. This paper contributed to …

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has the most fragile ecosystems in the world.
Over the past decades, QTP is suffering from increasing external pressures of climate …

The main goal of this study was to investigate the analytical hierarchy process (AHP),
frequency ratio (FR), and certainty factor (CF) models for groundwater potential mapping …

Saudi Arabia's arid and semi-arid regions suffer from water scarcity because of climatic
constraints and rapid growth of domestic and industrial water uses. The growing demand for …

Abstract Evaluation of environmental vulnerability over large areas is a difficult and complex
process because it is affected by many variables. Few research on environmental …

Groundwater is a hidden natural resource which plays a crucial role in all the environmental
and biological processes with a greater significance on socio-economic activities. However …

Understanding how changes in individual land use types influence the dynamics of
streamflow and sediment yield would greatly improve the predictability of the hydrological …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …