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Land use and land cover change in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh: Using remote sensing to promote sustainable urbanization by Dewan, Ashraf M., Yamaguchi, Yasushi

“…This study evaluates land use/cover changes and urban expansion in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh, between 1975 and 2003 using satellite images and socio-economic…”
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Application of Bivariate and Multivariate Statistical Techniques in Landslide Susceptibility Modeling in Chittagong City Corporation, Bangladesh by Ahmed, Bayes, Dewan, Ashraf

“…The communities living on the dangerous hillslopes in Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) in Bangladesh recurrently experience landslide hazards during the…”
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Typhoid Fever and its association with environmental factors in the Dhaka Metropolitan Area of Bangladesh: a spatial and time-series approach by Dewan, Ashraf M, Corner, Robert, Hashizume, Masahiro, Ongee, Emmanuel T

“…Typhoid fever is a major cause of death worldwide with a major part of the disease burden in developing regions such as the Indian sub-continent. Bangladesh is…”
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Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges by Pour, Sahar Hadi, Wahab, Ahmad Khairi Abd, Shahid, Shamsuddin, Asaduzzaman, Md, Dewan, Ashraf

“…•Aggregated impacts of global and urban micro-climate on urban floods are reviewed.•Pros and cons of low impact development in urban flood mitigation are…”
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The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh by Adnan, Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani, Abdullah, Abu Yousuf Md, Dewan, Ashraf, Hall, Jim W.

“…•We present a spatiotemporal appraisal of poverty in the coastal zone in Bangladesh.•Flood risk is positively correlated with land use/land cover (LULC)…”
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Dynamics of land use/cover changes and the analysis of landscape fragmentation in Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh by Dewan, Ashraf M., Yamaguchi, Yasushi, Rahman, Md. Ziaur

“…Rapid urban expansion due to large scale land use/cover change, particularly in developing countries becomes a matter of concern since urbanization drives…”
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Using remote sensing and GIS to detect and monitor land use and land cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh during 1960–2005 by Dewan, Ashraf M., Yamaguchi, Yasushi

“…This paper illustrates the result of land use/cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh using topographic maps and multi-temporal remotely sensed data…”
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Projection of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during growing seasons under climate change scenarios by Shiru, Mohammed Sanusi, Shahid, Shamsuddin, Dewan, Ashraf, Chung, Eun-Sung, Alias, Noraliani, Ahmed, Kamal, Hassan, Quazi K.

“…Like many other African countries, incidence of drought is increasing in Nigeria. In this work, spatiotemporal changes in droughts under different…”
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Insights into parents’ perceived worry before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: inequality and heterogeneity of influences by Zougheibe, Roula, Dewan, Ashraf, Norman, Richard, Gudes, Ori

“…Abstract Background Excessive worry is an invisible disruptive force that has adverse health outcomes and may advance to other forms of disorder, such as…”
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Spatio-temporal Patterns of Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Heterogeneous Coastal Region of Bangladesh between 1990 and 2017 by Abdullah, Abu Yousuf Md, Masrur, Arif, Adnan, Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani, Baky, Md. Abdullah Al, Hassan, Quazi K., Dewan, Ashraf

“…Although a detailed analysis of land use and land cover (LULC) change is essential in providing a greater understanding of increased human-environment…”
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The use of watershed geomorphic data in flash flood susceptibility zoning: a case study of the Karnaphuli and Sangu river basins of Bangladesh by Adnan, Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani, Dewan, Ashraf, Zannat, Khatun E., Abdullah, Abu Yousuf Md

“…The occurrence of heavy rainfall in the south-eastern hilly region of Bangladesh makes this area highly susceptible to recurrent flash flooding. As the region…”
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Using Local Knowledge and Remote Sensing in the Identification of Informal Settlements in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia by Alrasheedi, Khlood Ghalib, Dewan, Ashraf, El-Mowafy, Ahmed

“…Urban planning within Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, has been impacted by the presence of informal settlements. An understanding of the spatial…”
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Application of stacking hybrid machine learning algorithms in delineating multi-type flooding in Bangladesh by Rahman, Mahfuzur, Chen, Ningsheng, Elbeltagi, Ahmed, Islam, Md Monirul, Alam, Mehtab, Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza, Tao, Wang, Zhang, Jun, Shufeng, Tian, Faiz, Hamid, Baig, Muhammad Aslam, Dewan, Ashraf

“…Floods are among the most devastating natural hazards in Bangladesh. The country experiences multi-type floods (i.e., fluvial, flash, pluvial, and surge…”
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Optimizing health service location in a highly urbanized city: Multi criteria decision making and P-Median problem models for public hospitals in Jeddah City, KSA by Murad, Abdulkader, Faruque, Fazlay, Naji, Ammar, Tiwari, Alok, Qurnfulah, Emad, Rahman, Mahfuzur, Dewan, Ashraf

“…Rapid urbanization and population growth have increased the need for optimizing the location of health services in highly urbanized countries like Kingdom of…”
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Flood Susceptibility Assessment in Bangladesh Using Machine Learning and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis by Rahman, Mahfuzur, Ningsheng, Chen, Islam, Md Monirul, Dewan, Ashraf, Iqbal, Javed, Washakh, Rana Muhammad Ali, Shufeng, Tian

“…This work proposes a new approach by integrating statistical, machine learning, and multi-criteria decision analysis, including artificial neural network…”
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A Spatiotemporal Ontology of Informal Settlements Using a Combination of OBIA-RF With Worldview-3 and Landsat Data by Alrasheedi, Khlood Ghalibr, Dewan, Ashraf, El-Mowafy, Ahmed

“…An understanding of the spatial distribution of informal settlements within a city is important for urban management decision-making and service infrastructure…”
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Urbanization and green space dynamics in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh by Byomkesh, Talukder, Nakagoshi, Nobukazu, Dewan, Ashraf M

“…Green space is particularly indispensable for proper functioning of the ecosystem in an urban environment. This study was an attempt to dynamically map and…”
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The role of climate variability in the spread of malaria in Bangladeshi highlands by Haque, Ubydul, Hashizume, Masahiro, Glass, Gregory E, Dewan, Ashraf M, Overgaard, Hans J, Yamamoto, Taro

“…Malaria is a major public health problem in Bangladesh, frequently occurring as epidemics since the 1990s. Many factors affect increases in malaria cases,…”
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Evaluating severity–area–frequency (SAF) of seasonal droughts in Bangladesh under climate change scenarios by Alamgir, Mahiuddin, Khan, Najeebullah, Shahid, Shamsuddin, Yaseen, Zaher Mundher, Dewan, Ashraf, Hassan, Quazi, Rasheed, Balach

“…Drought is considered to be one of the most devastating natural hazards, causing widespread environmental and social damage in many parts of the world. Using…”
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Spatio-temporal rainfall variability in the Himalayan mountain catchment of the Bagmati River in Nepal by Tuladhar, Dinesh, Dewan, Ashraf, Kuhn, Michael, Corner, Robert J.

“…Rainfall records between 1970 and 2015 from 12 rain gauge stations are used to examine the variability of rainfall patterns in the Himalayan mountain catchment…”
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