Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a phenomenon that can cause hotspots in city areas due to dense, impervious infrastructure and minimal vegetation cover. UHI may become worse extreme heat events are already affecting many regions across the globe increased frequent hot extremes, human-induced warming cities, rapidly growing urbanization, as documented by latest IPCC report 2021. In seeking support de...

Abstract Background In the last two decades, Nepal has experienced an increase in both forest fire frequency and area, but very little is known about its spatiotemporal dimension. A limited number of studies have researched extent, timing, causative parameters, vulnerability factors regarding Nepal. Our study analyzed trends patterns for decades fire-vulnerability risk based on historical incid...

This article explores the risks and potentials of staging vulnerability in community theatre with teenage girls. By drawing on postconstructionist spatial theories, elaborates how aesthetic spaces emerge when interwoven vulnerability. Exploring becomes a generative, or restrictive force, debates tensions produced process terms potentia potestas. It examines embeddedness drama practice as it bot...

Feedback mechanisms are important in the analysis of vulnerability and resilience of social-ecological systems, as well as in the analysis of livelihoods, but how to evaluate systems with direct feedbacks has been a great challenge. We applied fuzzy cognitive mapping, a tool that allows analysis of both direct and indirect feedbacks and can be used to explore the vulnerabilities of livelihoods ...

Groundwater pollution due to anthropogenic activities is one of the major environmental problems in urban and industrial areas. The present study demonstrates the integrated approach with GIS and DRASTIC model to derive a groundwater vulnerability to pollution map. The model considers the seven hydrogeological factors [Depth to water table (D), net recharge (R), aquifer media (A), soil media (S...