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Geosciences, Volume 6, Issue 4

December 2016 - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,162 Views
16 Pages

Identifying the Risk Areas and Urban Growth by ArcGIS-Tools

  • Omar Hamdy,
  • Shichen Zhao,
  • Mohamed A. Salheen and
  • Youhansen Y. Eid

Abouelreesh is one of the most at risk areas in Aswan, Egypt, which suffers from storms, poor drainage, and flash flooding. These phenomena affect the urban areas and cause a lot of damage to buildings and infrastructure. Moreover, the potential for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,406 Views
16 Pages

Human consumption patterns exceed planetary boundaries and stress on the biosphere can be expected to worsen. The recent “Paris Agreement” (COP21) represents a major international attempt to address risk associated with climate change through rapid d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,515 Views
14 Pages

Unfavorable land cover leads to excessive damage from landslides and other natural hazards, whereas the presence of vegetation is expected to mitigate rainfall-induced landslide potential. Hence, unexpected and rapid changes in land cover due to defo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,181 Views
12 Pages

Monitoring storm-induced dramatic beach morphology changes and long-term beach evolution provides crucial data for coastal management. Beach-profile measurement using total station has been conducted along the coast of west-central Florida over the l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,573 Views
17 Pages

Urban sprawl has become a very complex process, because it has many factors affecting its directions and values. The study of relative research shows that the driving forces that lead and redirect future urban sprawl require the application of a stat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,576 Views
25 Pages

Assessing Floods and Droughts in Ungauged Small Reservoirs with Long-Term Landsat Imagery

  • Andrew Ogilvie,
  • Gilles Belaud,
  • Sylvain Massuel,
  • Mark Mulligan,
  • Patrick Le Goulven and
  • Roger Calvez

Small reservoirs have developed across semi-arid areas as a low cost solution for millions of rural small holders to harvest scarce water resources. Studies have highlighted limited agricultural water use and low water availability on individual rese...

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