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Amin Habibi and Nafise Kahe
This study investigates how permeable and cool pavements, green roofs, and living walls affect microclimatic conditions and buildings? energy consumption in an arid urban setting: Shiraz. The study aims to evaluate the role of green infrastructure in mit...
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Andrea Magarelli, Andrea Mazzeo and Giuseppe Ferrara
As the world seeks alternatives to fossil fuels, agrivoltaics offer a promising solution by integrating solar panels with farming practices. This review examines three key agrivoltaic setups?static tilted, full-sun tracking, and agronomic tracking?dissec...
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Gaoqiang Zhang, Yutong Cheng, Haodong Liu, Chunlei Xiao, Hongfeng Nie, Zhenzhou Zhu, Dan Zhao and Yourang Zan
Water resources in arid and semi-arid areas are limiting factors for ecosystem health and economic development. Therefore, an accurate and reasonable assessment of ecological water demand is crucial for efficient water resource utilization. In this study...
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Mhammad Houssni, Jalal Kassout, Mohamed El Mahroussi, Soufian Chakkour, Mohamed Kadiri, Mohammed Ater and Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor
Oases play a crucial role in human societies and the conservation of biodiversity, especially in harsh environments like arid zones. They serve as sanctuaries for agrodiversity, preserving diverse agricultural resources under challenging climatic conditi...
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Ibtissame Lembaid, Rachid Moussadek, Rachid Mrabet and Ahmed Bouhaouss
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the central issues in dealing with soil fertility as well as environmental and food safety. Due to the lack of relevant data sources and methodologies, analyzing SOC dynamics has been a challenge in Morocco. During the...
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Barry J. Hibbs
Environmental problems may develop in groundwater basins when water levels change due to long-term wetter or drier climate or land development. A term related to water-level elevation is flow capacity, which develops in aquifers when the water table is a...
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Kun Hou, Jiping Wang and Xiuru Wang
The ecological restoration projects in the Loess Plateau (LP) has significantly altered the underlying surface conditions, coupled with a warming?wetting climate, which has profoundly affected the regional water cycle. Evaluating the response of runoff t...
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Guanfang Sun, Yan Zhu, Zhaoliang Gao, Jinzhong Yang, Zhongyi Qu, Wei Mao and Jingwei Wu
Soil salinization is a major eco-environmental problem in irrigated agro-ecosystems. Understanding regional soil salinity spatial patterns and seasonal dynamics and their driving factors under changing environments is beneficial to managing soil salinity...
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Rafael Rodriguez-Venegas, Cesar A. Meza-Herrera, Pedro A. Robles-Trillo, Oscar Angel-Garcia, Jesus S. Rivas-Madero and Rafael Rodriguez-Martínez
This study characterized the environmental?climatic trends occurring in the largest dairy cattle intensive production cluster under arid land conditions in northern Mexico. The study was based on the Temperature Humidity Index (THI); it aimed to identify...
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Ndamulelo Nembilwi, Hector Chikoore, Edmore Kori, Rendani B. Munyai and Tshilidzi C. Manyanya
Mopani District Municipality in the northeast of South Africa is largely semi-arid and frequently affected by meteorological droughts. The recent 2015/16 event had devastating impacts on water levels, crop yields, livestock herds and rural livelihoods. W...
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