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Open AccessUrban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective
A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and ecological co-benefits remains largely...
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Glacier retreat and lake outburst floods in the central Himalayan region from 2000 to 2022
Recent research on the Himalayan cryosphere has increasingly been focused on climate uncertainty and regional variations, considering features such as glacier recession, lake expansion, outburst floods, and re...
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Open AccessThe evolution of social-ecological system interactions and their impact on the urban thermal environment
While heat mitigation is crucial to achieving sustainable urban development, an inadequate understanding of the evolution of the urban thermal environment (UTE) and its relationship with socio-ecological syste...
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Open AccessSpatio-temporal changes in the causal interactions among Sustainable Development Goals in China
Extensive efforts have been dedicated to deciphering the interactions associated with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, these developments are hampered by a lack of efficient strategies to avoid b...
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Pixel level spatial variability modeling using SHAP reveals the relative importance of factors influencing LST
As an important indicator of the regional thermal environment, land surface temperature (LST) is closely related to community health and regional sustainability in general, and is influenced by multiple factor...
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Open AccessAchieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose substantial challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Exploring systematic SDG strategies is urgently needed to aid recovery from the pandemic an...
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Open AccessFinding pathways to synergistic development of Sustainable Development Goals in China
While the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) index is a widely employed method of measuring progress in the United Nations (UN) SDGs, as it allows comparisons across countries and regions, it does not usually ...
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Interactions of Geography with Other Natural and Social Sciences and the Humanities
Geography has historically enjoyed strong interactions with other disciplines in addressing major challenges related to social, economic, and environmental issues and in contributing overall to sustainability....
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the International Geographical Union
Having broken out in late 2019, COVID-19 has resulted in a once-in-a-century health emergency that has rapidly evolved into a global socio-economic crisis. As of March 2022, more than 450 million people were i...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The Case for a Critical Zone Science Approach to Research on Estuarine and Coastal Wetlands in the Anthropocene
In the original version of the article Min Liu’s first and last names were transposed. It is correct as shown here.
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Open AccessThe Case for a Critical Zone Science Approach to Research on Estuarine and Coastal Wetlands in the Anthropocene
As the focus of land-sea interactions, estuarine and coastal ecosystems perform numerous vital ecological service functions, although they are highly vulnerable to various kinds of disturbance, both directly a...
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Open AccessGrain size and organic geochemistry of recent sediments in Lingding Bay, Pearl River Delta, China: implications for sediment dispersal and depositional processes perturbed by human activities
Lingding Bay (LDB), on the Pearl River Delta (PRD) of southern China, is a typical example of a large river mouth that is strongly affected by anthropogenic perturbations that have changed the boundary conditi...
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Cloud-based typhoon-derived paddy rice flooding and lodging detection using multi-temporal Sentinel-1&2
Rice production in China’s coastal areas is frequently affected by typhoons, since the associated severe storms, with heavy rain and the strong winds, lead directly to the rice plants becoming flooded or lodge...
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Characterizing the changing environment of cropland in the Songnen Plain, Northeast China, from 1990 to 2015
Quantitative characterization of environmental characteristics of cropland (ECC) plays an important role in maintaining sustainable development of agricultural systems and ensuring regional food security. In t...
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From the Highlands to the Lowlands and Back Again: Reconstructing Past Environmental Changes in South-Central and Southern Africa
Reconstructing Quaternary environmental change in Africa presents many challenges due to the fact that appropriate sedimentary sequences are unevenly distributed, temporally discontinuous, difficult to access,...
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South African Biomes and Their Changes Over Time
A biome is the largest geographical unit used for biotic classification, based on plant and animal life in conjunction with climate. Here we introduce the of South Africa, and illustrate their changes over t...
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Geomorphology and Society: An Introduction
The interdependent relationship between humans and landscapes is an important but still under-developed concept in geomorphology. It is clear, from case studies introduced in this chapter that a detailed under...
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Geomorphology in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Past, Pointers for the Future?
The term Anthropocene has been introduced to highlight the fact humans have, directly or indirectly – accidentally or intentionally – profoundly transformed the earth system. There is much debate as to whether...
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Holocene sea level and environmental change on the west coast of South Africa: evidence from plant biomarkers, stable isotopes and pollen
We present an 8000-year biomarker and stable carbon isotope record from the Verlorenvlei Estuary, South Africa. We assessed how leaf wax lipids, insoluble macromolecular organic matter, bulk C/N data and compo...
