Mapping the global threat of land subsidence
| Autor: | Shujun Ye, Juan López-Vinielles, John Lambert, Michelle Sneed, Rosa María Mateos, Gerardo Herrera-García, Roberto Tomás, Luigi Tosi, Najeebullah Kakar, Dora Carreón-Freyre, Mauro Rossi, Gilles Erkens, Hanmei Wang, Devin L. Galloway, Enrique Cabral-Cano, Wei Chia Hung, Pietro Teatini, Pablo Ezquerro, Marta Béjar-Pizarro |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Ingeniería del Terreno y sus Estructuras (InTerEs) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Multidisciplinary
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Land subsidence Groundwater depletion 0208 environmental biotechnology 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences Ingeniería del Terreno 020801 environmental engineering land subsidence Political science Agency (sociology) Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Science (New York, N.Y.) 371 (2021): 34–36. doi:10.1126/science.abb8549 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Gerardo Herrera-García (1-2-3), Pablo Ezquerro (1-4), Roberto Tomás (2-5), Marta Béjar-Pizarro (1), Juan López-Vinielles (1-6), Mauro Rossi (7), Rosa M. Mateos (1-3), Dora Carreón-Freyre (2-8), John Lambert (2-9), Pietro Teatini (2-10), Enrique Cabral-Cano (2-11), Gilles Erkens (2-12-13), Devin Galloway (14-2), Wei-Chia Hung (2-15), Najeebullah Kakar (2-16), Michelle Sneed (17-2), Luigi Tosi (2-18), Hanmei Wang (2-19), Shujun Ye (2-20)/titolo:Mapping the global threat of land subsidence/doi:10.1126%2Fscience.abb8549/rivista:Science (New York, N.Y.)/anno:2021/pagina_da:34/pagina_a:36/intervallo_pagine:34–36/volume:371 RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) |
| Popis: | Subsidence, the lowering of Earth's land surface, is a potentially destructive hazard that can be caused by a wide range of natural or anthropogenic triggers but mainly results from solid or fluid mobilization underground. Subsidence due to groundwater depletion (1) is a slow and gradual process that develops on large time scales (months to years), producing progressive loss of land elevation (centimeters to decimeters per year) typically over very large areas (tens to thousands of square kilometers) and variably affects urban and agricultural areas worldwide. Subsidence permanently reduces aquifer-system storage capacity, causes earth fissures, damages buildings and civil infrastructure, and increases flood susceptibility and risk. During the next decades, global population and economic growth will continue to increase groundwater demand and accompanying groundwater depletion (2) and, when exacerbated by droughts (3), will probably increase land subsidence occurrence and related damages or impacts. To raise awareness and inform decision-making, we evaluate potential global subsidence due to groundwater depletion, a key first step toward formulating effective land-subsidence policies that are lacking in most countries worldwide. Funding for this study was provided partly by the Spanish Research Agency (AQUARISK, PRX19/00065, TEC2017-85244-C2-1-P projects) and PRIMA RESERVOIR project, and by all the institutions represented in the Land Subsidence International Initiative from UNESCO. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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