In India, Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) serve as critical intermediaries between the state and beneficiaries, including pregnant mothers and children. Effective planning and prioritization of care and services necessitate the collection of accurate ...

In rural, depopulated areas, agritourism, as a development model, could serve the goal of non- exclusively seasonal tourism while creating additional economic opportunities for the locals who are mainly engaged in agriculture. Kasos is an isolated island ...

Soil erosion occurs when natural or man-made agents tear away the top layer of the soil, making it extremely difficult to grow vegetation on the site. Wind and water (the two main causes of erosion) easily wash away soil if it is bare. Agriculture ...

Coastal Louisiana is facing continuing land loss, vegetation change, and potentially devastating storm surge-based flooding over the next fifty years. Our team at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is partnering with the Coastal Protection and ...

There are a large number of rammed earthen sites in northwest China. For thousands of years, earthen sites have developed a series of deterioration types that include surface weathering, sapping, cracks, collapses, gullies, etc. Surface weathering is a ...

Actions to handle the threats posed by climate change-related events and energy crisis are becoming increasingly needed. The transition from fossil fuels-based development to a more sustainable one has been prioritised in global agendas. The ...

In the pursuit of urban planning goals aimed at creating more liveable cities with enhanced public spaces, a crucial aspect to consider is the attention to vulnerable road users (pedestrians and cyclists) and their mobility and interaction within ...

Enhancing walkability can involve optimizing pedestrian movements, ensuring both convenience and safety. This proves to be particularly relevant in the context of railway stations as they can be identified as collectors of urban mobility flows and ...

The implementation of shared mobility services within cities plays an influential key role in enhancing sustainability by optimizing the use of transport resources, reducing the number of private vehicles, and mitigating traffic congestion and ...

Morocco was struck by a 6.8 Richter scale earthquake on September 8, 2023, with its epicenter in the High Atlas mountain region. In addition to its steep topography and landlocked condition, the region’s socioeconomic structure is insecure, and ...

This research involves interdisciplinary scientific areas to describe a digital simulation multi-system of indoor unhealthy emissions in a multi-simulation environment in order to record, manage, evaluate and communicate the health status of a ...

Rapid urbanization, intensive agriculture, and industrial activities in Europe have led to escalating landscape fragmentation and environmental pollution, posing threats to biodiversity, and causing degradation of vital natural resources over ...

Territorialization, Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis represent key concepts in the context of industrial areas. Present days industrial settings and plans are characterized by a growing attention towards sustainable development, and the ...

This paper presents a GIS-based integration of a multidisciplinary dataset concerning a heavy metal contaminated soil. The case study is an area extending for about half a hectare where nearly 600 young trees have been planted to carry out a ...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are essential tools used for storing and performing analyses on spatio-temporal data. GIS reporting plays a crucial role in transforming the result of these analyses into actionable insights, enabling ...

Groundwater quality monitoring plays a vital role in effective water management across all groundwater basins. The provision of decision support systems can assist decision-makers in strategic planning and the conservation of groundwater ...

• There is a need for agile, effective groundwater management and monitoring tools.
• AquMADE is a user-friendly, accessible, and comprehensive tool for the experts.
• AquMADE combines GIS and MCDM methods, aiding informed decision-...

Soil erosion is one of the most crucial land degradation problems and is considered the most critical environmental hazard worldwide. The present study uses remote sensing data integrated with the geographical information system (GIS) technique and the ...

This article presents a sensitivity analysis of the main growing factors for wild American ginseng in North Carolina, USA. This study examines the influence and importance of ginseng's natural growing factors in the predictive models generated through ...

Engineering Planning is the primary task of underground engineering. The planning dimension of underground engineering still remains at the two-dimensional level, lacking a technical platform for processing and analyzing multi-dimensional and multi-...

The process of urbanization is inevitable and its higher rates have been observed in the less developed nations. It has impacted the socio-economic as well as environmental condition of the urban system. The present study intends to demonstrate a ...