By manifesting the response of land to human activity and impacts, degradation of forestland indicates the locations where society is in conflict with sustaining the forest environment. The analysis of land degradation in various land-use/cover patterns of Russia’s vast forest zone (about 1050 million ha, or 63% of the country) clearly demonstrates two human-induced problems, inappropriate tech...

In recent decades, the different impacts of global change have led to an increased exposure and vulnerability of coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) to various disturbances and stressors. Human-induced land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC) are an important factor contributing to the vulnerability of such systems. It is therefore reasonable to analyse vulnerability and LUCC in a combined eff...

Tsunamis are caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a sea. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water have the potential to generate a tsunami. The coastal areas of Kollam district, the present study area was seriously affected by the catastr...

The understanding of inland wetlands’ distribution and their level of vulnerability is important to enhance management and conservation efforts. The aim of the study was to map inland wetlands and assess their distribution pattern and vulnerability to natural and human disturbances such as climate change (temperature increase) and human activities by the year 2080. Inland wetland types i.e. for...

In Canterbury land-use intensification, particularly irrigated dairy expansion, is occurring on stony soils. Concerns exist about the ability of these soils to sustain intensified land-use, while maintaining nutrient leaching within discharge limits. Environmental models consistently predict stony soils as having a high vulnerability to leaching under intensive land use, but there is little exp...

background: groundwater nitrate pollution is an important environmental problem in water resources management. in this regard, specific measures aiming at prevention of water pollution will be helpful to managers and decision-makers. identification of aquifers’ vulnerable areas and determination of groundwater protection zones using most widely used models, such as drastic and cd, are one of th...

This study is aimed to develop agroecological zone model (AEZ) integrated with the evaluation of land suitability in order to attain the food tenacity in Boyolali County, Central Java, Indonesia. This model is established through five steps. First, it is stocktaking and identifying biophysical land characteristic. The second step is compiling map of suitability of land commodities. The third is...

and Applied Analysis 3 TM images MODIS Meteorogical data Other dataset Landuse NDVI Precipitation Temperature Wind DEM Soil Dataset of study area Soil erosion sensitivity Soil desertification sensitivity Landscape unit plaques density Landscape evenness index Land utilization degree composite index Ecological suitability index Land resources utilization degree index Ecological vulnerability in ...

Species face many threats, including accelerated climate change, sea level rise, and conversion and degradation of habitat from human land uses. Vulnerability assessments and prioritization protocols have been proposed to assess these threats, often in combination with information such as species rarity; ecological, evolutionary or economic value; and likelihood of success. Nevertheless, few vu...