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Frequency Distribution Analysis of Land Surface Temperature (LST) over Iran Using Remote Sensing Observations from Aqua MODIS
Environmental changes such as ablation of ice and snow, drying of lakes, deforestation, desertification and urbanization may affect the thermal...
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Long time series of remote sensing to monitor the transformation research of Kubuqi Desert in China
Desertification is one of the major challenges facing humanity. However, there is no effective way to effectively control desertification. China is...
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Controlling Measures for a Visual Disaster
The chapter “Controlling Measures for a Visual Disaster” focuses on practical methods and mitigation techniques for visual catastrophes. It...
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Monitoring of Dryland Vulnerability by Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing: Case of Wadi Bouhamed Watershed (Southern Tunisia)
Land degradation (LD) has become a crucial issue with both environmental and socio‐economic implications. Natural forces, through periodic stresses...
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Integrating family farmers’ perceptions with meteorological records and national climate change projections to enhance site-specific adaptation knowledge
Adaptation strategies to climate change (CC) that do not consider local perspectives tend to fail at specific sites. Searching for complementary...
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Geochemistry and mineralogy of modern floodplain Nile sediments of Sohag area, Egypt: an environmental perspective
Understanding the characteristics of modern floodplain sediment (MFS) is important for geomorphological, paleoclimatic, sedimentation, and...
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Process of Aeolian Action
The wind’s ability to carry silt and deposit it is referred to as the aeolian process. The Earth’s surface is significantly shaped by this process,...
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Elevation, bedrock exposure, land use, interbedded limestone and clastic rock, and vegetation coverage dominate the spatiotemporal variability of soil erosion in karst basin
Soil erosion is a prominent environmental problem in karst regions. Exploring the spatiotemporal variability of soil erosion and the factors that...
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Soil salinity assessment using electromagnetic induction method in a semi-arid environment — a case study in Tunisia
Salinization has been recognized as one of the major cause of soil degradation in Mediterranean area leading to land desertification. Globally, 25 to...
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Desert classification based on a multi-scale residual network with an attention mechanism
Desert classification is the fundamental for preventing and/or controlling desertification. Topographical features of desert remote sensing images...
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Impact of climatic changes on future irrigation water requirement in the Middle East and North Africa's region: a case study of upper Egypt
Freshwater shortages in the Middle East and North Africa's region (MENA) cause serious issues, while climate change causes even more issues. The...
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Environmental sensitivity to desertification in northern Mesopotamia; application of modified MEDALUS by using analytical hierarchy process
Poor management, low vegetation cover, and severe erosion are undermining the stability and sustainability of lands. In this study, modified...
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Twenty-five years of reclamation dynamics and potential eco-environmental risks along the Tarim River, NW China
The ever-increasing land reclamations along the Tarim River caused by human activities have resulted in a series of potential eco-environmental...
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Experimental Study on Coupled Stress-Dissolution of Carbonate Rocks in Rocky Desertification Area of Karst Plateau, Guizhou, China
The karst rocky desertification is one of the major bottlenecks for the eco-environmental safety and economical sustainable development in karst...
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Identification of land degradation hotspots in semiarid region of Anantapur district, Southern India, using geospatial modeling approaches
Land degradation and desertification has been graded as a foremost environmental dispute for the coming eras. Thus, the surveillance and early...
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Hydrological Hazards
The chapter deals with the issues of water abundance and water scarcity. In general, too much water means the dangers of increased water runoff and...
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Changes in dryland areas and net primary productivity in China from 1980 to 2020
AbstractThe drylands of China account for about 10.8% of the global dryland. They are severely affected by human activities and climate change....
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The Adaptation to Climate Change in Primary Education and Approach from the Social Sciences Textbooks
The aim of this research is to analyze the adaptation of climate change proposals and solutions that are incorporated in the Spanish Social Sciences...
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Natural hazards and disasters around the Caspian Sea
At a time, when the five riparian countries have renewed consultation with each other about the future of the Caspian Sea, it is appropriate to...
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