Egypt, which suffers from water scarcity, has been listed among the ten top countries that are threatened due to the rapidly increasing population. With growing concerns about climate change and possible impacts on water shortage, human intrusion and development processes have had undeniable adverse ...
In this study, a data-driven approach employed by utilizing the product called JRC-Global surface water mapping layers V1.4 on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) to map and monitor the effects of climate change on surface water resources. Key climatic variabl
In many parts of the world, lake drying is caused by water management failures, while the phenomenon is exacerbated by climate change. Lake Urmia in Northern Iran is drying up at such an alarming rate that it is considered to be a dying lake, which has dire consequences for the whole regi...
Water scarcity is examined by comparing numbers of people living under conditions of water in the present with three future scenarios – one in which the climate remains unchanged but population changes; one in which population changes but the climate remains static; and one in which both ...
Fig. 2. A transition matrix of the changes in the water balance components due to LULCC. There are five main LULC classes (forest, agriculture, urban, pasture and degraded land), and four main hydrology components surface runoff (SURF), groundwater (GW), evapotranspiration (ET) and Water ...
Water scarcity is examined by comparing numbers of people living under conditions of water in the present with three future scenarios – one in which the climate remains unchanged but population changes; one in which population changes but the climate remains static; and one in which both ...
Age and isotopic constraints on Pleistocene pluvial episodes in the Western Desert, Egypt Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. (1997) Y.Enzelet al. The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring desert...
Freshwater stress represents the state of demand-driven water scarcity15and is defined as the ratio of freshwater withdrawal to streamflow (Fig.1a). Trends in freshwater storage, conversely, represent the evolution of total storage, defined as the vertical sum of groundwater, soil moisture, surface...
State or societal collapses are often described as featuring rapid reductions in socioeconomic complexity, population loss or displacement, and/or political discontinuity, with climate thought to contribute mainly by disrupting a society’s agroecological base. Here we use a state-of-the-art multi-ic...
Due to favourable living conditions, the Lower Danube River Basin in Serbia has constantly been populated since prehistory, which has caused different impacts on the environment. This chapter aims to address human impacts on water resources in this area. These impacts involve the use of aquatic res...