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Drone-Based Aerial GIS Flood Vulnerability Mapping: A Case Study of the 2023 Chennai Floods in Pallikaranai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

by Vivekanandan Senthil Kumar Kadarkaraipandian

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Floods are among the most catastrophic natural disasters because they endanger both lives and assets. The current investigation intends to create a mesoscale state wide flood risk mapping for the district of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, utilizing drone data and a GIS-MCDA model. The Chennai...

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Exploration of Composting Strategies for Sustainable Organic Waste Management in Urban Environments

by Sharma Prashant Nagabhooshanam N. Kumar Rakesh Sharma Kuldeep Vani Sana

Issue 6

Solid Waste Management

The management of organic waste in urban environments poses significant challenges due to the high volume of waste generated and limited disposal options. Composting is a promising technique for converting organic waste into valuable compost that can be used to improve soil health and reduce the...

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Insights into polybrominated diphenyl ethers: occurrence, sources, and exposure health risk in selected solid waste impacted soils

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Onoriode O. Emoyan et al. View all

Issue 4

Solid Waste Management

The Coordinated management of solid waste dumps from different anthropogenic environments is important for pollution management of immediate and adjacent ecosystems. This study took three soil profile samples from three functional zones: the rural, the suburban, and the urban solid waste dumps. The...

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Flood susceptibility in urban environment using multi-layered neural network model from satellite imagery sources

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Swathika R et al. View all

Issue 8

Air pollution and health

Recently, there has been a rise in research based on data-driven based machine learning models to address the issue of processing speed posed by various physiological simulations. The majority of studies, however, have concentrated on creating models for particular water sources, drainage systems...

Spatio-temporal Flood disaster +3 more
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Analysis and Evaluation of Heavy Metal Pollution in Kosasthalaiyar River near Ennore Creek Using Geo Statistical Approach

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Karuppasamy Sudalaimuthu et al. View all

Issue 5

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

The increasing industrialization and urbanization in recent times has led to a significant increase in heavy metal pollution in soil and sediment. The present study aims to evaluate the heavy metal contamination (HmC) in surface sediments collected from the Kosasthalaiyar River located between...

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Arid Lands Flood Evaluation and Mitigation Measures Using HEC-HMS Model and Best Management Practices (BMPs)

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Ahmed N. Bdour et al. View all

Issue 4

Climate change

This study emphasis on draining and slowing runoff volumes in arid and semi-arid lands regions using HEC-HMS model linked with various Best Management Practices (BMPs) alternatives. The proposed methods may help significantly in reducing flash flood precipitation and improving instream water quality...

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Positive matrix factorization on elemental concentrations of PM10 samples collected in areas within, proximal and far from mining and power station operations in Greece.

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Dr. Stylianos Garas et al. View all

Issue 1

Air pollution and health

The identification of PM sources and their contribution to measured PM concentrations is crucial for the environmental policy making since the findings be able to conduce to the development of relevant legislation in order to achieve effective air quality manage. In this study, the sources of PM10...

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Distribution characteristics and health risk assessment of PAEs in urban soils of Changji City, Xinjiang, China

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Yuyan Liu et al. View all

Issue 1

Environmental Sciences

Recent studies have indicated that PAEs (phthalic acid esters) are significant environmental pollutants with carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic effects. Urban soils can act as both a source and sink for city contaminants. This paper takes Changji, Xinjiang in Northwest China as the study area...

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Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soil, Paddy Straw and SEM analysis of the soil for the impact of wastewater irrigation in Girudhumal Sub basin of Tamil Nadu, India

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V KUMAR et al. View all

Issue 3

Multidisciplinary research in environmental science

The objective of the study is to determine accumulation and translocation of heavy metals from soil to paddy straw irrigated with urban sewage wastewater in peri-urban region of Girudhumal subbasin area in Madurai. The soil samples were collected in seven locations irrigated with treated and...

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Assessment of the prevailing environmental conditions: in the town of Patras, Greece with emphasis on areas with school buildings

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Katsifara A., Varnavas S.P.

Issue 1

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development

The school buildings in and around the city of Patras in the prefecture of Achaia, Greece, are classified on the basis of the prevailing environmental conditions and the existing human activities in the surrounding area. School buildings in urban and rural environment are investigated. The type and...

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Environmental impact assessment of a METRO infrastructure facility construction by modelling water and soil pollution

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MARIA P. PAPADOPOULOU et al. View all

Issue 4

Environmental management and policy

The construction of large infrastructure projects such as highways, railroads, landfills, airports, harbours offers great social-economic opportunities for the development of a region; it is also mainly responsible for the deterioration of natural environment in the greater areas where these...

Environmental impact assessment soil and subsurface water map pollution +4 more
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Systematic approach for ungaged basins’ discharge determination in Western Peloponnese, Greece

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Daniil Ε.Ι., Michas S.N., Nikolaou K. and Lazaridis L.S.

Issue 3

General

Determining peak flows for ungaged areas is difficult and involves high uncertainty. Advanced computer capabilities provided by geographical information systems and hydrologic modeling software are used for detailed determination of the parameters involved, both for simple methods as the rational...

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Current status of the metal pollution of the environment of Greece - a review

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Farmaki E.G. and Thomaidis N.S.

Issue 3

General

ABSTRACT Pollution from metals and metalloids of the environment of Greece seemed to attract many researchers and elemental pollutants in air, soil and water have been determined and studied systematically during the last decade. The most recent of these studies, concerning the last five years (2003...

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Application of the SWAT model in the Pinios river basin under different land-use scenarios

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Pikounis M., Varanou E., Baltas E., Dassaklis A. ans Mimikou M.

Issue 2

General

This paper investigates the hydrological effects of specific land use changes in a catchment of the river Pinios in Thessaly (Ali Efenti catchment), through the application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) on a monthly time step. The model's calibration efficiency is verified by...

hydrologic models Soil and Water Assessment Tool +1 more
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Mercury content in garden soils of urban agglomeration

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Dabkowska-Naskr?t H.and R??a?ski Sz.

Issue 3

General

The study report the degree of mercury contamination in garden soils of urban agglomeration and local sources of heavy metals emission like traffic and coal combustion. The urban soils have been compared with cultivated rural counterparts, developed on similar parent material. Mercury contents in...

mercury in soils garden soils +2 more
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