Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

This paper includes a critical review of the existing literature on the use of satellite SAR
imagery for subsidence analysis. Land subsidence, related to multiple natural and human …

Urban expansion often occurs on croplands. However, there is little scientific understanding
of how global patterns of future urban expansion will affect the world's cultivated areas …

Climate change is not only altering weather patterns but also accelerating sea-level rise,
leading to increased inundation and saline contamination of soils. Given projected sea-level …

Groundwater overdraft gives rise to multiple adverse impacts including land subsidence and
permanent groundwater storage loss. Existing methods are unable to characterize …

Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly
vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the …

Coastal zones have large social, economic and environmental values. They are more
densely populated than the hinterland and concentrate large economic assets, critical …

Relative sea/land level changes are fundamental to people living in deltas. Net subsidence
is complex and attributed to tectonics, compaction, sedimentation and anthropogenic …

Deltas are subaerial landforms that cap underlying deposits with subaqueous extensions
that result from a river feeding sediment directly into a standing body of water at a rate that …

Abstract The Vietnamese Mekong delta is subsiding due to a combination of natural and
human-induced causes. Over the past several decades, large-scale anthropogenic land-use …