The forests of Uttarakhand have been burning continuously during the last decades and particularly in summers, with loss of vegetation cover of that region. Forest fire causes imbalances in nature and loss of income sources of the population. There is more attention needed on the Traditional as ...
, deforestation, lack of crop rotation, improper surface drainage, monoculture and excessive use of fertilizers, etc. soil erosion drastically affects soil fertility and renders it useless. in extreme cases, it may leave patches of land dry and increasingly arid, losing its wildlife and vegetation ...
The Garhwal and Kumaun regions of the Himalayas of India have experienced rapid urbanisation due to the expansion of the national highway (NH-58) in Uttarakhand, which has a significant impact on the frequency and intensity of landslides. Therefore, this study assesses the impact of road expansio...
Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Hamid Reza Pourghasemi Contributions The manuscript was written together with the activities of all the authors together (Ahmed M. Youssef, Bosy A. El‑Haddad, Hariklia D. Skilodimou, George D. Bathrellos, For...
Increasing anthropogenic pressure and dependence on plant products have led to widespread exploitation of natural forests in the Uttaranchal Himalaya. The present study was carried out to study the influence of canopy cover on tree, shrub and herb vegetation. For this three different canopy types, ...
Flood Risk Assessment Considering the Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic in the Municipality of Balayan, Batangas Chapter© 2023 1Introduction Floods are one of the most frequent and damaging hazards in the world, which affected more than 2 billion people in 1998–2017 (WHO2020). The average area ...
Floods have become increasingly frequent and devastating in recent decades, posing unignorable risks as highly destructive natural hazards. To effectively
vegetation, and land use/land cover type, in which the last three triggers are dynamic ones and need to be extracted from up-to-date remote sensing images. These triggering factors are then taken as geospatial information quantities and used to construct an information quantity-based model to ...
Thus, a natural resource management system is needed in this region to assess the impact of wildfire hazards on land and atmosphere. We conducted an analysis of a severe fire event that occurred between January and April 2021 in the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand, by utilizing open-source ...