applies five risk indices: reliability, resiliency, vulnerability, drought risk index (DRI) and drought damage index (DDI …

demand, which includes threat, susceptibility, and vulnerability. A new quantitative definition of threat is given based on … fuzzy probability; Susceptibility is proposed for evaluating the inherent state of the water resource systems; Vulnerability …

Water scarcity is a common problem in many countries, especially those located in arid zones. The vulnerability of … prefecture in China, and to evaluate water resources vulnerability currently as well as in the future. The model was calibrated … vulnerability of water resources: i) increase the Wastewater Treatment Rate by 50 %; ii) decrease the Irrigation Water Demand per …

resources in Amazon with the points of vulnerability that anthropic societies present in the region. The impact of climate … of these extreme climate events is one of the first steps to a regional vulnerability approach. Copyright Springer …

efficiency in applying policies, legislation and managerial plans towards decreasing the poverty and the vulnerability of the … countries specially those suffering from poverty. In this paper, the vulnerability of five countries-Israel, Jordan, Lebanon … on water resources. This paper will introduce a new index, which will be called the Governance and Climate Vulnerability …

integrated index for assessment of vulnerability of this natural phenomenon. The aim of this paper is presenting an integrated … index for assessment of vulnerability to drought using multiple factors which includes hydrological, meteorological, land …

aquifer to the sustainable rate (i.e., safe yield). Groundwater vulnerability mapping and delineation of groundwater … resources in Jordan and their major issues. It attempts to discuss the groundwater vulnerability and protection strategy and the …

the potential of ground water for pollution. For this purpose intrinsic vulnerability was assessed using SINTACS model … vulnerability category. To validate the model results, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out to assess the influence of each … of SINTACS parameters on the obtained vulnerability values. It was found that the soil overburden attenuation capacity …

This paper presents a spatial-temporal groundwater vulnerability assessment, based on a coupled remote sensing and GIS … vulnerability assessment in fresh water systems. The transboundary watershed of the Águeda River was used as an experimental case … study where the DRASTIC and DRASTIC pesticide indices and the Susceptibility Index (SI) were used for vulnerability …

The main objective of this paper is to introduce the proposed theory of vulnerability of water pipe network (TVWPN) and …, in particular, its theoretical concepts. These concepts have a basis in the structural vulnerability theory (Agarwal et …