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Dan Meng, Yueming Liu, Zhihua Wang, Xiaomei Yang, Xiaoliang Liu, Junyao Zhang and Ku Gao
From 2000 to 2020, storm surges occurred 397 times in China, resulting in direct economic losses of up to CNY 220.64 billion. Storm surges not only threaten safety but also cause property damage; hence, it is necessary to assess the changes in vulnerabil...
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M. M. Biliaiev,O. V. Berlov,I. V. Kalashnikov,V. A. Kozachyna
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Joshua Amuzu, Bubu P. Jallow, Amos T. Kabo-Bah and Sidat Yaffa
Global Climate Change is one of the dire challenges facing the international community today. Coastal zones are vulnerable to its impacts. An effective approach with long-term prospects in addressing climate change impacts is it?s mainstreaming into deve...
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DAVID ALMAREZ,JOHN ENRICO PEOAROYA,CRISALYN RUBIO
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This is a descriptive study of the disaster mitigation efforts of Iligan focused on its 1995-2000 and 2013-2022 Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUP) and their congruence with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework of ...
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Joshua Amuzu, Bubu P. Jallow, Amos T. Kabo-Bah and Sidat Yaffa
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Msafiri Y. Mkonda and Xinhua He
Despite the established literature on the vulnerability to climate change in various parts of Tanzania, it is worthwhile to assess the extent of this vulnerability of the peoples? livelihoods and predict its future outcome. This is particularly important...
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Helen Meerkhan, José Teixeira, Jorge Espinha Marques, Maria José Afonso and Helder I. Chaminé
Hard-rock catchments are considered to be source of valuable water resources for water supply to inhabitants and ecosystems. The present work aims to develop a groundwater vulnerability approach in the Caldas da Cavaca hydromineral system (Aguiar da Beir...
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Helen Meerkhan, José Teixeira, Jorge Espinha Marques, Maria José Afonso, Helder I. Chaminé
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Hard-rock catchments are considered to be source of valuable water resources for water supply to inhabitants and ecosystems. The present work aims to develop a groundwater vulnerability approach in the Caldas da Cavaca hydromineral system (Aguiar da Beir...
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Aldo Fiori, Irene Pomarico, Antonio Zarlenga, Vittorio Catani and Guido Leone
This work extends the overlay and index methods for intrinsic groundwater vulnerability, that typically involve the soil surface and the vadose zone, to groundwater (saturated) transport. The method is ?hybrid? as it combines the standard overlay and ind...
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Yebao Wang, Cheng Tang, Peipei Du, Baijing Liu, Yanfang Li and Chuntao Chen
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are pivotal in safeguarding and preserving global ocean ecosystems. However, oil spills exert both discernible and evident impacts on marine ecosystems and the biodiversity of MPAs. In this research, an environmental model f...
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Christian Hunter, Jorge Gironás, Diogo Bolster and Christos A. Karavitis
Considering water resource scarcity and uncertainty in climate and demand futures, decision-makers require techniques for sustainability analysis in resource management. Through unclear definitions of ?sustainability?, however, traditional indices for re...
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Nadha Gowrish Narisetty, Gaurav Tripathi, Shruti Kanga, Suraj Kumar Singh, Gowhar Meraj, Pankaj Kumar, Bojan Ðurin and Hrvoje Matijevic
Groundwater pollution in Rajasthan, India, poses significant challenges due to the region?s heavy reliance on this resource for drinking and irrigation. Given the increasing water scarcity and overexploitation, this study assesses the susceptibility of g...
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Dao Duy Minh,Philippe Lebailly,Nguyen Dang Hao,Philippe Burny,Ho Thi Minh Hop
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Rural households in Vietnam have been facing various adverse impacts on their livelihoods. By using 28 indicators of Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF), this study aims to identify the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) of the households in the coa...
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Xiang He, Zhenshan Lin and Kangning Xiong
Guizhou Plateau is a region in China that typically shows the contradictory human-earth system. A vulnerability assessment indicator system was constructed to explore the coupled human-natural system characteristic of the karst landform based on the grey...
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Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat, Jason C. Senkbeil and Weibo Liu
The Gulf and southeast coastal communities in the United States are particularly vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Coastal areas generally receive the greatest economic losses from tropical cyclones; however, research suggests that losses in the inland zo...
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Niki Evelpidou, Alexandros Petropoulos, Anna Karkani and Giannis Saitis
Coastal lagoons and dunes are of great ecological importance, not only for providing habitats for rare flora and fauna, but also for protecting coastal areas from rising sea levels and storms, etc. Even though these features are unique for sustainable de...
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Konstantina Katsanou
The karst aquifers of the Hellenic territory display high vulnerability that is related to the existence of the epikarst zone. If present, the epikarst zone regulates the vertical movement of the groundwater, which results in the chemical pollutants stay...
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Adam Szymkiewicz, Anna Gumula-Kawecka, Dawid Potrykus, Beata Jaworska-Szulc, Malgorzata Pruszkowska-Caceres and Wioletta Gorczewska-Langner
Estimation of contaminant travel time through the vadose zone is needed for assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution, planning monitoring and remediation activities or predicting the effect of land use change or climate change on groundwater qual...
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Guadalupe Díaz-Gutiérrez, Luis Walter Daesslé, Francisco José Del-Toro-Guerrero, Mariana Villada-Canela and Georges Seingier
Groundwater pollution is one of the main challenges in our society, especially in semi-arid Mediterranean regions. This issue becomes especially critical in predominantly agricultural areas that lack comprehensive knowledge about the characteristics and ...
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Stephanie Mangan, Andrew M. Lohrer, Simon F. Thrush, Joanne I. Ellis and Conrad A. Pilditch
Biogeochemical cycling in the marine coastal zone regulates the availability of nitrogen and carbon within soft sediment habitats. However, these pathways are being fundamentally altered by anthropogenic increases in nutrient delivery. Few studies have i...
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