Anthropogenic, direct pressures on coastal wetlands

A Newton, J Icely, S Cristina, GME Perillo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coastal wetlands, such as saltmarshes and mangroves that fringe transitional waters,
deliver important ecosystem services that support human development. Coastal wetlands …

Reviewing challenges of flood risk management in Malaysia

HS Rosmadi, MF Ahmed, MB Mokhtar, CK Lim - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study reviewed some of the challenges faced by local authorities in disaster
management, especially flood disasters that occurred in Malaysia. Flood disasters are the …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Flash flood susceptibility assessment and zonation by integrating analytic hierarchy process and frequency ratio model with diverse spatial data

A Tariq, J Yan, B Ghaffar, S Qin, BG Mousa, A Sharifi… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flash floods are the most dangerous kinds of floods because they combine the destructive
power of a flood with incredible speed. They occur when heavy rainfall exceeds the ability of …

GIS based hybrid computational approaches for flash flood susceptibility assessment

BT Pham, M Avand, S Janizadeh, TV Phong… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Flash floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards; they occur within a catchment
(region) where the response time of the drainage basin is short. Identification of probable …

An effective geospatial-based flash flood susceptibility assessment with hydrogeomorphic responses on groundwater recharge

A Tariq, LH Beni, S Ali, S Adnan… - Groundwater for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Floods are one of the most common natural disasters, resulting in the extensive destruction
of infrastructure, property, and human life. The destructive potential of a flood depends on …

[HTML][HTML] Flash flood susceptibility assessment and zonation using an integrating analytic hierarchy process and frequency ratio model for the Chitral District, Khyber …

H Waqas, L Lu, A Tariq, Q Li, MF Baqa, J Xing, A Sajjad - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pakistan is a flood-prone country and almost every year, it is hit by floods of varying
magnitudes. This study was conducted to generate a flash flood map using analytical …

The Mekong's future flows under multiple drivers: How climate change, hydropower developments and irrigation expansions drive hydrological changes

LP Hoang, MTH van Vliet, M Kummu, H Lauri… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The river flow regime and water resources are highly important for economic growths, flood
security, and ecosystem dynamics in the Mekong basin–an important transboundary river …

Flood risk management in arid and semi-arid areas: a comprehensive review of challenges, needs, and opportunities

S Nabinejad, H Schüttrumpf - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite water shortages and infrequent rainfall in arid and semi-arid areas, their recent
floods show that flooding tends to be more severe and life-threatening. However, flooding is …

Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system's perspective, relational and transformations' approaches: This article belongs to Ambio's …

N Frantzeskaki, T McPhearson, N Kabisch - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
In this perspective, we present how three initial landmark papers on urban sustainability
research contributed to the larger sustainability science scholarship and paved the way for …