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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Israel Edem Agbehadji, Stefanie Schütte, Muthoni Masinde, Joel Botai and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
Early warning systems (EWS) facilitate societies? preparedness and effective response capabilities to climate risks. Climate risks embody hazards, exposure, and vulnerability associated with a particular geographical area. Building an effective EWS requi...
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Alex Sendrós, Mahjoub Himi, Lluís Rivero, Raúl Lovera, Aritz Urruela, Josefina C. Tapias and Albert Casas
The basis for the protection and prevention of groundwater pollution lies in the accurate assessment of vulnerability in terms of the exposure of groundwater bodies to contaminants before they are potentially discharged into the environment. The vulnerab...
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Matthew Kelly, Imogen Schwarz, Mark Ziegelaar, Andrew B. Watkins and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. Australian flood risk assessments (FRAs) are mostly conducted on relatively small scales using modelling outputs. The aim of this study was to develop a novel approach of index-based...
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Clebson Pautz, Alexandre Rosa dos Santos, Jéferson Luiz Ferrari, Plinio Antonio Guerra Filho, Sustanis Horn Kunz, Henrique Machado Dias, Taís Rizzo Moreira, Rita de Cássia Freire Carvalho, Vinícius Duarte Nader Mardeni, Elaine Cordeiro dos Santos and Larissa Marin Scaramussa
Environmental vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of a region to damage when it is subjected to natural or anthropogenic actions. The assessment of environmental vulnerability in lakes is an important tool to assist managers in planning and interv...
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Emna Hfaiedh, Amor Ben Moussa, Marco Petitta and Ammar Mlayah
Hydrogeochemical properties and groundwater quality assessment are very important for the effective management of water resources in arid and semiarid regions. The present investigation is a spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater quality using both chemi...
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Hiroyuki Miura, Masashi Matsuoka, Juan C. Reyes, Nelson Pulido, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Andrea C. Riaño, Alvaro Hurtado, Raul Rincon, Helber García and Carlos Lozano
Early disaster responses in damaged areas after a large earthquake are indispensable for stakeholders to assess and grasp the impacts such as building and infrastructure damage and disrupted community functionality as soon as possible. This study introdu...
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Zengkang Lu, Chenglong Yu, Huanan Liu, Jiquan Zhang, Yichen Zhang, Jie Wang and Yanan Chen
Collapses are one of the most common geological disasters in mountainous areas, which easily damage buildings and infrastructures and bring huge property losses to people?s production and life. This paper uses Huinan County as the study area, and with th...
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Manuel Nhangumbe, Andrea Nascetti and Yifang Ban
Floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters worldwide. Although the vulnerability varies from region to region, all countries are susceptible to flooding. Mozambique was hit by several cyclones in the last few decades, and in 2019, after cyclon...
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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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