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Climate change intensifies ecosystem vulnerability in mountainous regions, particularly in Northwestern Sichuan’s Terrestrial Ecosystems (TENS), where complex terrain amplifies impacts on biodiversity and carbon dynamics. This study assesses sp...

Climate change significantly impacts the livelihoods of farmer households. Particularly vulnerable areas, both economically and environmentally, face significant threats from climate change. This study developed a framework to assess household-level...

The Qinba Mountain Region in southern Shaanxi, China, is both a key ecological barrier and a repository of cultural heritage, yet its traditional villages remain highly vulnerable to natural disasters. Disaster-relocation policies have reduced direct...

We applied a framework to assess climate change vulnerability of 52 major vegetation types in the Western United States to provide a spatially explicit input to adaptive management decisions. The framework addressed climate exposure and ecosystem res...

Rural settlement systems in core ecological barrier zones face heightened geological disaster risks, making vulnerability assessment crucial for enhancing resilience and sustainable development. This study examines Maoxian County, a typical high-risk...

The vulnerability framework developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Building off this framework, the Connecticut Institute for Resilience a...

As the exposure to extreme snowstorms continues to change in response to a warming climate, this can lead to higher infrastructure damages, financial instability, accessibility restrictions, as well as safety and health effects. However, it is challe...

Storm surges are the leading marine disaster in China’s coastal cities, with their impacts exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanization. Despite their significance, most existing studies focus on a single scale, neglecting the complex,...

In recent years, the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters have underscored the urgent need for resilient urban development. In cold-region cities, low temperatures pose a distinct and underexplored threat, with serious impl...

Quantifying livelihood vulnerability to wildland fires in the United States is challenging because of the need to systematically integrate multidimensional variables into its analysis. We aim to measure wildfire threats amongst humans and their physi...

Global targets to halt the loss of biodiversity have not been met, and there is now an additional Aichi target for preventing the extinction of known threatened species and improving their conservation status. Climate change increasingly needs to be...

This paper presents the concept of urban pandemic vulnerability as a crucial framework for understanding how COVID-19 affects cities and how they react to pandemics. We adapted existing social and environmental urban vulnerability frameworks to asses...

Climate change, population growth, and socio-economic transformations present multifaceted challenges to the water resource systems in the four major river basins of Henan Province. Consequently, to gain a comprehensive understanding of water securit...

Flooding increasingly threatens lives and property under climate change and rapid urbanization. Mobile pumping stations offer a practical and cost-effective solution for flood protection in low-lying, densely populated coastal areas. However, previou...

Wireless communication advancements have significantly improved connectivity and user experience with each generation. The recent release of the framework M.2160 for the upcoming sixth generation (6G or IMT-2030) cellular wireless standard by ITU-R h...

This study develops a computational framework for the simultaneous quantification of seismic resilience and economic losses in corrosion-affected coastal continuous girder bridges. The proposed model integrates adjustment factors to reflect delays in...

Climate change brings considerable danger to India’s economic progress, with the agricultural sector and farmers’ livelihoods being particularly vulnerable. Himachal Pradesh is especially susceptible owing to its reliance on climate-sensi...

Climate change is altering the water cycle and increasing drought risks in river basins. However, few studies account for minor droughts, despite their limited environmental impact. This study uses a pooling and exclusion method to remove the effects...

As climate change intensifies, roadway infrastructure is increasingly at risk from extreme weather events including floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. This paper presents a system-of-systems performance-based asset risk management approach, designed...

The rise in internet-based services has raised risks of data exposure. The manipulation and exploitation of sensitive data significantly impact individuals’ resilience—the ability to protect and prepare against cyber incidents. Emerging t...

Federated learning is the on-device, collaborative training of a global model that can be utilized to support the privacy preservation of participants’ local data. In federated learning, there are challenges to model training regarding privacy...

Assessing and measuring urban vulnerability resilience is a challenging task if the right type of information is not readily available. In this context, remote sensing and Earth Observation (EO) approaches can help to monitor damages and local condit...

This study investigates rural settlement patterns and land suitability in Rwanda’s Western Highlands, a mountainous region highly vulnerable to geohazards like landslides and flooding. Its primary aim is to inform sustainable, climate-resilient...

High-elevation agricultural systems face increased risks due to climate change, thus livelihood, food security, and rural areas are threatened. In this study, a region-specific Agricultural Vulnerability Index is constructed to assess the climate vul...

Climate change is contributing to raising disaster risk, with variable impacts depending on the local level of vulnerability. This paper describes a method for the definition of local vulnerability domains to climate change. The application of the me...

This study comprehensively investigates the stress distribution and aging effects in Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) and Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) gasket materials through a novel integration of hyperelastic modeling and advanced machine l...

Understanding the forces that shape farmland rental prices in major agricultural regions such as the U.S. Corn Belt is essential for evaluating the economic and environmental resilience of agricultural regions. This study develops an integrated frame...

In highly urbanised and industrialised settings, managing environmental pressures and enhancing urban resilience demand integrated, spatially explicit approaches. This study presents a methodological framework that integrates topographic data, land c...

Climate change poses an escalating threat to cultural heritage (CH), driven by intensifying climate-related hazards and systemic vulnerabilities. In response, risk assessment frameworks and methodologies (RAFMs) have emerged to evaluate and guide ada...

This study developed a comprehensive framework for vulnerability assessment as a tool to measure vulnerability at three levels of geopolitical units in the Philippines. This is a comprehensive multi-disaster framework that can provide information to...

Urban flooding presents acute challenges in heritage cities, where dense populations and valuable cultural assets coexist. While Nature-Based Solutions (NbSs) have been widely studied, their implementation in heritage cities remains underexplored due...

Transport networks play a critical role for living communities, as they facilitate the exchange of people and goods and foster economic growth. Improving their resilience against seismic hazards, among which liquefaction is by far one of the most sig...

Mountainous traditional villages represent unique socio-ecological systems that have evolved through centuries of adaptation to complex topographies and multi-hazard environments. Understanding their terrain–resilience coupling mechanisms is es...

The sustainable management of forest supply chains is particularly challenging in regions affected by socio-territorial conflicts, such as southern Chile, where Indigenous land claims and environmental concerns complicate operations. This study devel...

Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are intensifying under climate change, exacerbating thermal exposure risks for socially vulnerable populations. While the role of urban environmental features in shaping UHI patterns is well recognized, their differential im...

Coastal areas are rich in diverse resources and are ideal locations for developing the tourism industry. Thus, in coastal tourist centers, the growth rate is high, although often disorganized and unsustainable. In Mexico, tourist centers have fostere...

The increasing frequency of wildfires has posed significant challenges to communities worldwide. The effectiveness of all aspects of disaster management depends on a credible estimation of the prevailing risk. Risk, the product of a hazard’s li...

Exchange rate dynamics in OECD economies have been increasingly shaped by geopolitical tensions and systemic crises. Between 2010 and 2025, a sequence of major events including the European sovereign debt crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russia...

Duran is a coastal city located in the Guayas Estuary region in which 24% of urban sectors suffers from the effects of chronic flooding. This study seeks to assess the causes of Duran’s vulnerability by considering exposure, population sensitiv...

The IPCC emphasizes the role of forests in the sequestration of greenhouse gases, a significant cause of climate change. Accordingly, it shows the importance of predicting changes in forests due to climate change, evaluating them to reduce vulnerabil...

Inner Mongolia is located in China’s arid and semi-arid regions, with sensitive and fragile ecosystems at risk of increased desertification, necessitating ecological restoration. However, economic resources for large-scale ecological restoratio...

Climate stress poses a threat to the agricultural sector, which is vital for both the economy and livelihoods in general. Quantifying its risk to food security, livelihoods, and sustainability is crucial. This study proposes a framework to estimate t...

The adverse impacts of climate change exert mounting pressure on agriculture-dependent livelihoods of many developing and developed nations. However, integrated and spatially specific vulnerability assessments in less-developed countries like Banglad...

Heat health impacts (HHI) on the elderly are a growing concern in the face of climate change and aging populations. General practitioners (GPs) have an important role in health care for the elderly. To inform the development of effective prevention m...

The 21st‑century Maritime Silk Road initiative highlights the importance of oceans as hubs for resources, ecology, and trade, yet a comprehensive understanding of marine natural disaster risks within this region remains limited. This study focu...

Given that most cities in Sichuan Province, China, are located in mountainous areas and are frequently affected by earthquakes, this study selected 16 mountainous cities in Sichuan Province. Based on the “exposure–sensitivity–coping...

With accelerating surface warming trends in urban regions, cities like Algiers are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, contributing to a growing concern over heat-related illnesses. For a comprehensive long-term assessment (2001–2023) of heat...

This study investigates the nonlinear, regime-dependent, and frequency-specific interdependencies between rare earth element (REE) markets and key global critical sectors, including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, clean energy, defense, and...

Against the backdrop of intensifying global climate change and expanding human encroachment into mountainous regions, landslides have increased markedly in both frequency and destructiveness, emerging as a key risk to socio-ecological security and de...

Sequential drought and heat stress pose a growing threat to forest ecosystems in the context of climate change, yet systematic evaluation methods for woody plants remain limited. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive screening platform for iden...