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The Social Vulnerability Index: A Literature Review
This chapter provides a non-exhaustive review of the literature on the Social Vulnerability Index in order to share with Disaster Studies scholars...
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Development of a landscape index to link landscape pattern to runoff and sediment
Linking landscape indexes to ecological processes is the key topic of landscape ecology. However, traditional landscape metrics based on the...
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Water quality index and health risk assessment for heavy metals in groundwater of Kashiani and Kotalipara upazila, Gopalganj, Bangladesh
The groundwater quality of the Gopalganj district in Bangladesh was not well documented. Therefore, this research was done to determine the...
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The Covid-19 Protection Index (CPI) as a Way to Identify Vulnerabilities and Disparities Across Brazilian Territories
In Brazil, the Covid-19 pandemic spread across an extremely unequal and exclusory territory, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable...
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A Novel Index for Quantifying Small-Scale Resource Heterogeneity
The objective of the work presented in this paper is to provide a quantitative measure of grade heterogeneity at the selective mining unit scale...
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Association of Air Pollutant Index (API) on SARS-CoV-2 of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Malaysia
Malaysia reported its first COVID-19 case on January 25, 2020, and the cases have continued to grow, necessitating the implementation of additional...
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Source and ecological risk assessment of trace metal contamination in Lake Pykara sediments, Southern India
In this investigation, the metal concentrations (Co, Mn, Cr, Zn, Cu, Pb, As, Cd, and Ni) were estimated in the surface sediments of Lake Pykara. The...
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Spatial relationship of Remote Sensing Ecological Indicator (RSEI) and landscape metrics under urban development intensification
In recent years, environmental issues such as global warming and climate change have led to an increased focus on finding solutions to reduce its...
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Vulnerability Assessment of COVID Epidemic for Management and Strategic Plan: A Geospatial-Based Solution
Due to the regular increase of COVID, there is a need to devise a tool for district-level planning and prioritization and effective allocation of...
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Study on Flow Field Evaluation and Adjustment Countermeasures of Low Permeability Reservoirs in Bohai Bay Basin
The reserves of low-permeability reservoirs account for a relatively large proportion in Bohai Bay Oilfield. The key to ensuring the effect of...
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A study on the urban growth and dynamics over 16 major cities of India
Urban agglomerations across the world have witnessed haphazard and unprecedented growth in the recent past, giving rise to urban sprawling. This...
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Spatial scale effects of landscape patterns on water quality changes in drinking water source protection areas: a case study in the Guishui River Basin, China
Understanding the correlation between landscape patterns and the water quality of protected drinking water areas is essential for the sustainable use...
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Effects of Disturbance Regimes on Phytodiversity of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, India
This study evaluated the cumulative effects of multiple disturbance factors over phytodiversity in Similipal Biosphere Reserve using spatial...
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Assessing the Impact of Habitat Fragmentation on the Distribution of Juvenile and Larval Sillago Species in the Ka Long Estuary Located in Northern Vietnam
Habitat fragmentation has the potential to impact animal diversity by diminishing ecological connectivity, particularly in estuarine and mangrove...
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Investigating effects of land use and land cover patterns on land surface temperature using landscape metrics in the city of Tehran, Iran
Tehran, the capital of Iran, is the most densely populated city in the country that has been experiencing extensive population growth and urban...
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Overall frailty gauged in victims of the Italian plague (Imola, 1630–1632): was plague an indiscriminate killer?
Plague is an epidemic-prone infectious disease that has affected humanity with catastrophic effects throughout almost its entire history. One of the...
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A Prediction Model to Determine a COVID-19 Patient’s Outcome Based on Its Risk Factors
In December 2019, a new virus appeared in Wuhan, China. In a matter of weeks, this virus spread to all global regions, causing a pandemic. The first...
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What do we know about spillover between the climate change futures market and the carbon futures market?
Climate action-based assumptions and tradable characteristics underpinned the development of climate change futures contracts, which are related to...
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Environmental Impact of Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Over Agricultural Sites in Himalayan Foothills
Human life has come to a standstill when the countrywide lockdown was imposed to curb the infection of the highly contagious COVID-19 pandemic. Mass...
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Climate effects on the COVID-19 outbreak: a comparative analysis between the UAE and Switzerland
The main aim of the present study is to disclose the similarities or differences of the climate effects on the COVID-19 outbreak in two countries,...
