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    Integrated landslide risk assessment utilizing open source satellite and ground data in the Himalayas of Northern Pakistan
    (2025-07-01)
    Ahmad, Naseem
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    Shafique, Muhammad
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    Hussain, Mian Luqman
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    Shah, Munawar
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    Jamjareegulgarn, Punyawi
    Landslides have devastating effect on communities, infrastructure, and the environment, making them one of the most recurring and harmful natural hazards globally. This study propose an integrated approach of freely available geospatial data and semi-quantitative techniques to evaluate landslide hazard, vulnerability, and risk in one of the most landslide-prone valleys i.e., Kaghan Valley, northern Pakistan. The Google Earth Pro, high-resolution DEM and satellite images are used to develop a landslide inventory, derived causative factors and assess the landslide hazard and risk assessment in Kaghan Valley. The landslide susceptibility map is then integrated with landslide-triggering factors to derive a landslide hazardindex map. A geospatial database of element-at-risk data of 66,282 building footprints, typological data, road network, population, and land cover are obtained through remote sensing and extensive field surveys. The quantitative analysis revealed that 8.43 km<sup>2</sup> (0.66%) of the total area falls under the very high-risk category, while 271.19 km<sup>2</sup> (21.11%) is classified as high risk, and 80.91 km<sup>2</sup> (6.30%) as moderate risk, establishing a strong basis for risk assessment.
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    Impact assessment of climate change on groundwater and vulnerability to drought of areas in Eastern Thailand
    (2016-01-01)
    Seeboonruang, Uma
    Apart from being an important natural water resource, groundwater serves as an alternative source of water supply during natural droughts. Groundwater nevertheless has been increasingly threatened by urbanization, industrialization, seasonal climate variability, and climate change. One of the long-term adverse impacts of climate change is an irreversible change in the precipitation intensity and pattern and subsequently a fluctuation in groundwater recharge and hence subsurface storage. In Thailand especially the eastern region of the country where droughts are perennial, reduced precipitation contributes to shortages of water supply in many agricultural areas and industrial estates in the region. The aims of this research are to identify hotspots and prioritize zones presently threatened by persistent droughts and whose subsurface systems are susceptible and vulnerable to climate change. Thus, exposure index is defined by the change of future rainfall from a GCM model, sensitivity index is assessed by a modified DRASTIC technique, and the adaptive capacity in this region is associated with the current occurrence of seasonal droughts. The exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity factors are combined and ranked through the straightforward overlay matrix technique. The results are presented in the form of hazard, impact and vulnerability maps with hotspots and are useful for better groundwater management and planning as well as policy decision-making.