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Qiang Han, Tiansong Qi and Mosammat Mustari Khanaum
Urbanization and climate change exacerbate groundwater overexploitation and urban flooding. The infiltration basin plays a significant role in protecting groundwater resources because it is a prevalent technology of managed aquifer recharge. It could als...
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Kevin MacKenzie, Steve Auger, Sara Beitollahpour and Bahram Gharabaghi
Stream corridor erosion can majorly contribute to the overall sediment and phosphorus load in urbanizing watersheds. However, the relative contribution of stream bed and bank erosion, compared with upland watershed sources and the potential for stream re...
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Ding Ma, Sijia Jiang, Xin Tan, Mingyu Yang, Qingbin Jiao and Liang Xu
Using remote sensing and GIS techniques to monitor long time series land cover changes is of great significance to understanding the impact of human activities on spatiotemporal conflicts and changes in cropland and forest ecosystems in the black soil re...
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Yansu Qi, Xuefei Li, Yingjie Liu, Xiujuan He, Weijun Gao and Sheng Miao
Morphological indicators, which are important for urban planning, can be adjusted to effectively mitigate the heat island effect and promote a more comfortable urban environment. Most studies obtain the relationship between morphological indicators and l...
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Sina Razzaghi Asl
Globally, floods are becoming more severe, lasting longer, and occurring more frequently because of changes in climate, rapid urbanization, and changing human demographics. Although traditional structural flood mitigation infrastructures (e.g., drainage ...
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Jiada Li, Courtenay Strong, Jun Wang and Steven Burian
Assessing the resilience of urban drainage systems requires the consideration of future disturbances that will disrupt the system?s performance and trigger urban flooding failures. However, most existing resilience assessments of urban drainage systems r...
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Giovanni Giacco, Stefano Marrone, Giuliano Langella and Carlo Sansone
Continual mapping and monitoring of impervious surfaces are crucial activities to support sustainable urban management strategies and to plan effective actions for environmental changes. In this context, impervious surface coverage is increasingly becomi...
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Laurissa C. Heidkamp and Alan D. Christian
Land use land cover within a watershed influences stream water quality, habitat quality, and biological community structure. As development and associated impervious surface increases in a watershed, changes in storm water and nutrient inputs generally c...
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Mohamed. M. Yagoub, Yacob T. Tesfaldet, Marwan G. Elmubarak and Naeema Al Hosani
Urban quality of life (UQoL) study is very important for many applications such as services distribution, urban planning, and socioeconomic analysis. The objective of this study is to create an urban quality of life index map for Al Ain city in the Unite...
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Ziqi Ren, Zhe Li, Feng Wu, Huiqiang Ma, Zhanjun Xu, Wei Jiang, Shaohua Wang and Jun Yang
Rapid urbanization has led to significant changes in land surface temperature (LST), which in turn affect the urban thermal environment effect and the health of residents. Exploring the causes of the urban thermal environment effect will provide guidance...
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