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Rainfall disasters under the changing climate: a case study for the Rio de Janeiro mountainous region
Climate change impacts the erosive power of rain, influencing mountainous landscapes’ vulnerability to natural disasters. This study evaluated the...
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Evaluating the farmers’ adoption behavior of water conservation in mountainous region Vietnam: extrinsic and intrinsic determinants
The steep parts of Vietnam face more rain, frost, flash flooding, and landslides than the plains and lowlands, making them more vulnerable to...
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Alpine vegetation responses to snow phenology in the Chinese Tianshan mountainous region
Investigating the interrelation between snow and vegetation is essential to explain the response of alpine ecosystems to climate change. Based on the...
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An integrated spatial planning of the mountainous landscapes for ski sports in a case area at the eastern Türkiye
Mountainous regions have disadvantages in economic development because of harsh physical and climatic conditions. However, winter tourism activities...
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Impact Assessment of Road Construction on Landslide Susceptibility in Mountainous Region using GIS-Based Statistical Modelling
Landslide susceptibility is crucial for effective hazard management, planning mitigation, and risk reduction strategies. The present study assessed...
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Ranking Mountainous Geoheritages with the 3A Approach (Attraction, Accessibility, and Amenity)
A tourist destination (country or region) may have several or many geoheritages. Some of them might have similar characteristics whereas the others...
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Inventory of Geomorphosites and Cultural Assets for the Development of Tourism in the Ayazini Region of the Mountainous Phrygia (Afyonkarahisar, Turkey)
Interesting landforms come to the fore in tourism destinations in Turkey as well as all around the world. In Turkey, subsequent to the volcanic...
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Assessment of groundwater recharge and connectivity with surface water in a mountainous watershed using natural tracers in Daejeon, Korea
The water supply from headwater streams in mountainous regions is considered an important source for sustaining both water quality and quantity in...
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Dynamic 3D network design for UAV-based photogrammetry in mountainous terrain
Topographic map** in mountainous areas encounters many challenges due to the potential impasse and lack of access to all locations. Unmanned Aerial...
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Responses of Nutrients to the Precipitation Variation and Land Use in Subtropical Monsoonal Small Mountainous Rivers: A Case Study of Baixi Watershed
Small mountainous rivers are characterized by large instantaneous fluxes and susceptible to extreme weather events, which can rapidly transport...
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Vulnerability assessment of road networks to landslide hazards in a dry-mountainous region
Landslides are natural hazards that can cause catastrophic life losses and damage to infrastructures and communities. In Iran, landslide exposure has...
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Gravity field modeling in mountainous areas based on band-limited SRBFs
In this study, a novel two-scale spherical radial basis function (SRBF) modeling method is proposed for regional gravity field determination. First,...
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Hydrological modeling and uncertainty analysis for a snow-covered mountainous river basin
Uncertainty analysis is crucial before hydrological simulation to address model vulnerability in snow-covered mountainous river basins, ensuring...
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A catastrophic rainfall-induced high landslide, occurred on December 4, 2020, in the Qingliucun mountainous area of Southwest China
The Qingliucun mountainous area is characterized by steep terrain, large topographic variation, a considerable free face, and massive highly fissured...
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GIS-based prediction method of shallow landslides induced by heavy rainfall in large mountainous areas
Rainwater runoff that does not infiltrate the soil during heavy rainfall may increase slope instability. The effect of runoff is usually neglected in...
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Mountainous Hazards and Sustainable Livelihood in Leh Valley
Availability of natural resources influences the daily livelihood of the people of an area. Livelihood in higher altitudinal environment is very...
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Assessment of Changes in the Biological Activity of Mountainous Meadow-Steppe Soils under Pastures of Different Degradation Stages in the Central Caucasus
AbstractParameters of biological activity (the contents and stocks of humus and microbial biomass carbon and the activity of enzymes of the hydrolase...
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Sustainability of lime stabilized road subgrade in mountainous regions of Türkiye
In this paper the use of lime stabilized subgrade for low volume roads in two regions with high mountains and different frost penetration conditions...
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Performance evaluation of CLM5.0 in simulating liquid soil water in high mountainous area, Northwest China
The model performance in simulating soil water content (SWC) is crucial for successfully modeling earth’s system, especially in high mountainous...
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Granitic inselbergs of Lara (Panafrican Chain, Far-North Cameroon): Assets for the implementation of geotourism in Mountainous region
The locality of Lara (Far-North Region, Cameroon) is made up of a pediplain strewn with coalescent plutons. The interaction of internal and external...