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Regressive Erosion at River Coca in Northeast Ecuador: Landslide Monitoring with Sentinel-1 to Support Disaster Risk Management
After the collapse of the San Rafael waterfall in Northeast Ecuador on 2 February 2020, a regressive erosion started along the River Coca putting...
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IT Project Risk Management Model
The chapter develops a knowledge-based IT project risk management model, which, unlike the existing ones, allows to take into account the dynamic and...
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Integrating a non-gridded space representation into a graph neural networks model for citywide short-term crash risk prediction
Current applications of Graph Neural Networks in citywide short-term crash risk prediction have been limited by a gridded representation of space,...
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GIS-assisted Flood-risk Potential Map** of Ilorin and its Environs, Kwara State, Nigeria
The incessant reoccurrence of flooding disasters across Nigeria has mandated an urgent outlook on flood-risk management techniques. Ilorin and its...
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Insurance and the Natural Assurance Value (of Ecosystems) in Risk Prevention and Reduction
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters and can threaten the functions of ecosystems. Affected, damaged or...
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Identifying influential climatic factors for urban risk studies in rapidly urbanizing Region
Severe weather events, such as heat waves, floods, pollution, and health threats, are becoming more common in metropolitan places across the world....
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Multiple assessments, source determination, and health risk apportionment of heavy metal(loid)s in the groundwater of the Shule River Basin in northwestern China
Global ecosystems and public health have been greatly impacted by the accumulation of heavy metal(loid)s in water. Source-specific risk apportionment...
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Spatial distribution and ecological risk of heavy metals and their source apportionment in soils from a typical mining area, Inner Mongolia, China
Determining the distributions and sources of heavy metals in soils and assessing ecological risks are fundamental tasks in the control and management...
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Ecological risk assessment and ecological security pattern optimization in the middle reaches of the Yellow River based on ERI+MCR model
The middle reaches of the Yellow River represent an important area for the protection and development of the Yellow River Basin. Most of the area of...
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Ecological Risk Assessment of World Heritage Sites Using RS and GIS: A Case Study of Huangshan Mountain, China
Ecological risk assessment (ERA) is an indispensable method for systematic monitoring of World Heritage Sites (WHSs) exposed to various anthropogenic...
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Computing traffic accident high-risk locations using graph analytics
Several studies on traffic accident hot spots have adopted spatial statistics and Geographic Information Systems where spatial point patterns are...
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Potential risk of soil irrigation with treated wastewater over 40 years: a field experiment under semi-arid conditions in northeastern Tunisia
In Tunisia, water scarcity is only adding pressure on water demand in agriculture. In the context of sustainable development goals, Tunisia has been...
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A Probabilistic Approach to Assess the Risk of Groundwater Quality Degradation
In environmental sciences, the risk assessment methods focus on the most reliable techniques to quantify vulnerability and hazard, being the former...
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A Case Study in Evaluating Spatiotemporal Variations in Drought and Its Risk Assessment over Telangana Using Satellite Data
As the critical parameter of the agricultural drought process, soil moisture (SM) has the potential to monitor agricultural drought, which can...
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Soil seed bank is affected by transferred soil thickness and properties in the reclaimed coal mine in the Qilian Mountains, China
Reclamation of lands abandoned after mining in mountain areas is critical to erosion control, safety from landslides, and ecological protection of...
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Parkland trees on smallholder farms ameliorate soil physical-chemical properties in the semi-arid area of Tigray, Ethiopia
Proposed agroforestry options should begin with the species that farmers are most familiar with, which would be the native multipurpose trees that...
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Forest Fire Risk Zone Map** in Tropical Forests of Saranda, Jharkhand, Using FAHP Technique
The forest fireForest firedefinition has severe environmental and societal consequences causing millions of monetary losses every year in the form of...
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Assessing and Accepting Risk: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Risk is about the future, operationalized through risk assessment and management. Risk seems to have become a universally accepted concept applied in...
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Addressing Individualized Risk Response to Climate Resilience Assessment by Fostering Adaptive Capacity
Asheville, North Carolina, launched a Climate Resilience Assessment in conjunction with a new Comprehensive Plan in 2017. While initiated separately,...
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Extending QGIS processing toolbox for assessing the geometrical properties of OpenStreetMap data
OpenStreetMap (OSM) offers an under-explored crowdsourced geospatial data useful to urban street network researchers for assessing the geometrical...
