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Understanding drought impacts on livelihoods and risk management strategies: South African smallholder farmers' perspectives
Drought is one of the main causes of food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty. It is therefore important to understand the perception of farmers on...
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A simple technique to enhance surface runoff quality for water supply in a Nigerian rural community: a pilot-scale study
Runoff water can be harnessed as a water source to augment water needs, especially in rural communities with agricultural-based economies in...
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Land surface energy exchange over the rice-winter rape rotation system and its response to winter rape abandonment in the humid lowland region, southern China
Exploring the characteristics and main influential factors of energy exchange and evapotranspiration (ET) in the rice-winter rape system and their...
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Equity, Social Welfare, and Economic Benefit Efficiency in the Optimal Allocation of Coastal Groundwater Resources
There is increasing concern about groundwater scarcity, environmental problems, and its socio-economic consequences. Therefore, questions have been...
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Stable and radiogenic strontium isotope cycling in a representative karst forest ecosystem, Southwest China
Nutrient depletion in the ecosystem mainly occurred via the base cations leach from the ecosystems. Isotope technology can provide new information on...
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Influence of soil parameter spatial variability on railway loess-filled embankment settlement
This study involved an embankment settlement analysis of a case study of the railway loess-filled embankment section of the Baozhong railway in...
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Assessing and map** wind erosion-prone areas in Northeastern Algeria using additive linear model, fuzzy logic, multicriteria, GIS, and remote sensing
Wind erosion is one of the most severe environmental problems in arid, semiarid, and dry sub-humid regions of the planet. This paper aimed to...
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Soil erosion and human activities over the last 60 years revealed by magnetism, particle size and minerals of check dams sediments on the Chinese Loess Plateau
Soil erosion has become more serious in semiarid areas around the world. However, the discrimination of the impact of concurrent climate change and...
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The Impact of Food Overproduction on Soil: Perspectives and Future Trends
This comprehensive document explores the multifaceted implications of food overproduction on soil sustainability, encompassing environmental,...
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Impacts of biochar amendment and straw incorporation on soil heterotrophic respiration and desorption of soil organic carbon
While biochar amendment and straw incorporation in soil have received great attention due to the potential of carbon sequestration and improvements...
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Evaluating the Comprehensive Effects of PFAAs Emited from the Fluorochemical Industry
The emerging pollutants on regional or larger scales are featured with complex emission sources, transportation, fate, and risk characteristics,...
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The impact of changing climate on the spread of the widely expanding species Ambrosia artemisiifolia in Slovakia
The invasion of common ragweed in Slovakia was analysed based on 1635 collected records. More than 70 years have passed since the first record was...
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Mine Water Treatment, Resource Utilization and Prospects in Coal Mining Areas of Western China
The scarcity of water resources and environmental pollution in the coal mining areas of western China severely restricts high-quality mine...
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Numerical analysis of influence factors and control measures for differential settlement of gully land creation
The gully land creation in the Loess Plateau has aroused widespread concern, but differential settlement of reclamation land seriously affects normal...
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Identifying potential groundwater contamination by mining influenced water (MIW) using flow measurements in a sub-catchment of the “Cradle of Humankind” Unesco World Heritage Site, South Africa
To assess the potential risk of Mining Influenced Water (MIW) contaminating the “Cradle of Humankind” U nesco World Heritage site (“Fossil Hominid...
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Debris flow hazard evaluation based on the GTW-ECM in Shijiaying Township, China
Debris flows are common geological disasters in mountainous areas that seriously threaten people’s lives and property safety. Debris flow hazard...
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Unveiling the hazards: comprehensive assessment of paraquat herbicide’s toxicity and health effects
Paraquat is a highly toxic herbicide commonly used to control weeds and unwanted vegetation in various agricultural, horticultural, and industrial...
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Characteristics and Sources of Black Carbon and Organic Carbon in Topsoil from Different Functional Zones of Bei**g, China
AbstractConsidering human activities are the most direct and important factors leading to the accumulation and loss of soil black carbon (BC), a...
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Open Levee Survey
The Kita River basin has 11 open levees. An open levee returns flood waters to the river to prevent flood damage from spreading. Most of the areas...
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Assessment of Climate Change-Induced Water Scarcity Risk by Using a Coupled System Dynamics and Bayesian Network Modeling Approaches
The water scarcity risk induced by climate change is contributing to a sequence of hydrological and socioeconomic impacts. Certain numbers of related...
