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Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa
North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones.
J. Schilling+3 more
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The optimal operation of reservoir groups is a strongly constrained, multi-stage, and high-dimensional optimization problem. In response to this issue, this article couples the standard Pelican optimization algorithm with adaptive ε constraint methods ...
Ji He+4 more
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Heavy metals are potential health risk, especially in mining sites where they deteriorate from sulfide-rich ore bodies. Lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury are very carcinogenic, while others are toxic.
P. Obasi, B. Akudinobi
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[Objective] The stability evaluation of an open-pit mining area was carried out in order to provide technical support for landform remodeling, ecological environment restoration, and soil erosion monitoring in a mining area.
Zhao Shuixia+6 more
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Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources
Mountain areas provide disproportionally high runoff in many parts of the world, but their importance for water resources and food production has not been clarified from the viewpoint of the lowland areas downstream.
D. Viviroli+4 more
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Monthly runoff forecasting has always been a key problem in water resources management. As a data-driven method, the least square support vector machine (LSSVM) method has been investigated by numerous studies in runoff forecasting.
Bao-Jian Li+4 more
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Integrated Water Resources Management Approaches to Improve Water Resources Governance
The water crisis can alternatively be called a governance crisis. Thus, the demand for good water governance to ensure effective water resources management and to attain specific water goals is growing.
J. Katusiime, B. Schütt
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Forecasting of runoff in the lower Yellow River based on the CEEMDAN–ARIMA model
Runoff is one of the important hydrological variables of rivers, and its accurate prediction can provide a reliable basis for water resources system characterization and efficient utilization.
Minghui Zhang+4 more
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Agriculture is the most important sector with regard to water resources management due to its social, economic, hydrological, and environmental aspects, and many scholars and researchers have been driven to investigate the dynamic interrelationships ...
Ahmed F. Mashaly, A. Fernald
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Random forests (RF) is a supervised machine learning algorithm, which has recently started to gain prominence in water resources applications. However, existing applications are generally restricted to the implementation of Breiman’s original algorithm ...
Hristos Tyralis+2 more
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