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Andrea Momblanch, Ian P. Holman and Sanjay K. Jain
Global change is expected to have a strong impact in the Himalayan region. The climatic and orographic conditions result in unique modelling challenges and requirements. This paper critically appraises recent hydrological modelling applications in Himala...
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Ashok K. Sharma, Peter Sanciolo, Amir Behroozi, Dimuth Navaratna and Shobha Muthukumaran
Integrated urban water management approaches (IUWM) are implemented to address challenges from increases in water demand as a result of population growth and the impact of climate change. IUWM aims to utilize all water resources (stormwater, wastewater, ...
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Nicola Pastore, Claudia Cherubini and Concetta Immacolata Giasi
Nowadays, changes in precipitation patterns together with the increasing water demand impose a sustainable management where the budget between water availability and demand is positively closed. A parsimonious hydrogeological modelling approach coupled w...
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Salam A. Abbas, Yunqing Xuan and Ryan T. Bailey
In this article, we present the use of the coupled land surface model and groundwater flow model SWAT-MODFLOW with the decision support tool WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning software) to predict future surface-water abstraction scenarios in a complex ...
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Paul Kiprotich, Xianhu Wei, Zongke Zhang, Thomas Ngigi, Fengting Qiu and Liuhao Wang
The Anthropocene period is characterised by a general demographic shift from rural communities to urban centres that transform the predominantly wild global landscape into mostly cultivated land and cities. In addition to climate change, there are increa...
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Abul Azad and Xin Wang
Land use and transportation planning have a significant impact on the performance of cities? traffic conditions and the quality of people?s lives. The changing characteristics of land use will affect and challenge how a city is able to manage, organize, ...
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Li Peng, Tiantian Chen, Qiang Wang and Wei Deng
Rapid industrialization and urbanization have brought dramatic changes to land use structure and layout but have caused several negative impacts on the ecosystem and environment. Increasing the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) in important ecological r...
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Lucio Di Cosmo,Diego Giuliani,Maria Michela Dickson,Patrizia Gasparini
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Aims of the study. Assessment of growth is essential to support sustainability of forest management and forest policies. The objective of the study was to develop a species-specific model to predict the annual increment of tree basal area through variabl...
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Guillermo Barrientos, Albert Herrero, Andrés Iroumé, Oscar Mardones and Ramon J. Batalla
This study analyses the changes in the runoff of forested experimental catchments in south-central Chile, to determine to what extent observed trends can be attributed to effects of intensive forestry and/or climate change. For this, we applied the distr...
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Diego Copetti and Franco Salerno
The interaction of climate with aquatic ecosystems is a multidisciplinary field of research involving water quantity and quality issues and having strong socio-economic implications. This special issue hosts 10 studies undertaken in 7 countries of 4 cont...
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