Adil Salhi

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• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University

Science is the seed of a decent life, with which we sow hope in the present and which we irrigate with the perfecting of good deeds. It is even crucial in the Mediterranean southern frontiers where the cultural erosion dissolves the structure of a society abandoned by the arms and brains of its youth. Soil-water-vegetation crisis should not be unde...

The Mediterranean is commonly recognized as a climate change hotspot where the rate of warming is greater than global and disturbances in precipitation patterns are predicted. Despite this, knowledge gaps are still identified in the South with respect to the lack of regional projections and studies of key elements such as trends, concentration, dis...

Urban flooding is recognized as a nature-driven disaster shaped by inherent factors such as climate, morphology, and hydrology, affecting vulnerability and flood exposure. While these factors play a paramount role, significant psychosocial intricate drivers are acknowledged, though they are challenging for prediction and assessment. This study delv...

Intensifying hydroclimatic changes in North Africa are causing unprecedented floods, droughts, and land degradation patterns that are increasingly associated with human casualties, socioeconomic instabilities, and outflow migrations. These patterns’ and their future forecasts remain largely unquantified, aggravating the impacts on several populous...

Morocco urgently needs an updated understanding of its water resources, considering the current knowledge's insufficient and uncertain state. Incorporating the latest Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) is crucial for a more accurate and informed assessment. This study aims to bridge this gap by examining the hydrological dynamics of major basins,...

Soil erosion in North Africa modulates agricultural and urban developments as well as the impacts of flash floods. Existing investigations and associated datasets are mainly performed in localized urban areas, often representing a limited part of a watershed. The above compromises the implementation of mitigation measures for this vast area under a...

Flood forecasting in data-scarce regions poses significant challenges due to irregular rainfall patterns and limited hydrological monitoring networks, particularly in semi-arid regions in Africa, South America, and Asia. However, despite significant efforts and advancements, there remains a substantial gap in the accurate prediction of flood events...

Estimating soil erodibility (C-Factor) in data-scarce regions is complex due to the lack of appropriate and abundant data, as well as the variability in climatic and land cover conditions. This study develops and validates models to estimate C-Factor values based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data in Morocco's distinct settings....

The Nekor Watershed, situated in the northwest corner of Africa, experiences significant climatic variability, posing challenges for water management. This study assesses hydrological drought in the Nekor Watershed from 1945 to 2016 and analyzes its socio-economic impacts on agriculture and population distribution. The purpose of this research is t...

Urbanization in Bni Bouayach, Morocco, threatens vital irrigated areas and agricultural land, raising concerns about environmental sustainability. This study employs a GIS-based Analytical Hierarchy Process (GIS-AHP) framework to assess land suitability for sustainable development. It addresses knowledge gaps in urban planning as follows: (i) Evalu...

Morocco's mountainous regions play a crucial role in shaping its precipitation patterns, influencing everything from water resources to agricultural potential. However, accurately mapping precipitation in such complex terrain is challenging for traditional methods. This study proposes a model that incorporates both topographic and geographic featur...

Morocco urgently needs an updated understanding of its water resources, considering the insufficient and uncertain state of current knowledge. Incorporating the latest Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) is crucial for a more accurate and informed assessment. This study aims to bridge this gap by examining the hydrological dynamics of major basins...

This paper presents an in-depth city profile analyzing Martil—an emerging coastal satellite urban center in northern Morocco. Situated within a rapidly urbanizing context, Martil exemplifies organic satellite city dynamics in the Global South. The analysis tracks Martil's demographic, spatial, economic, social, environmental, and planning transform...

The SESMAR dataset offers readily available maps and raster images tailored for scientists and decision-makers. It is derived from a wealth of remote sensing data covering the period from 2001 to 2023. Operating at a spatial resolution of 500m, this dataset evaluates soil loss susceptibility in the North African region. The application of the Revis...

The ASMeC project aimed at understanding the extent of knowledge and awareness of university students in Mediterranean countries about climate change and migrations and to ascertain the willingness of the students to personally tackle these issues. Primary data were collected in summer 2023 through a questionnaire. The questionnaire is composed b...

Soil is a delicate natural resource that is vulnerable to erosional forces. Cover management, representing factor C, is one of the most important factors in mitigating soil and water losses. However, conventional methods for estimating factor C are often resource-intensive and slow to track rapid changes. Remote sensing-based models for estimating...

Land degradation and soil erosion are becoming increasingly problematic in Africa's rapidly developing urban areas, particularly in Major Port Cities. Uncontrolled expansion and human pressures are hindering planning, adaptation, and conservation efforts. To understand the extent of these issues, this study combined morphometric analysis, soil loss...

Floodplains are both a blessing and a curse. They offer fertile soil and water but pose a risk of ooding and habitat loss, particularly in semi-arid regions such as Northeast Central Morocco. Flood modeling is critical for mitigating ood impacts and improving disaster management strategies. However, data scarcity poses signi cant challenges in accu...

Land degradation and soil erosion are becoming increasingly problematic in Africa's rapidly developing urban areas, particularly in Major Port Cities. Uncontrolled expansion and human pressures are hindering planning, adaptation, and conservation efforts. To understand the extent of these issues, this study combined morphometric analysis, soil loss...

The article explores how the concept of "David and Goliath" groups can be applied to the fight against climate change. It suggests that this concept can be used to understand how differently affected groups perceive and respond to climate change and the potential for cross-cultural and transnational solidarity. It emphasizes that an emotional conne...

Wise decisions depend on accurate and up-to-date scientific guidance. The ability to react, the accuracy, and the effectiveness of the measures adopted depend on it, particularly in the face of insurmountable structural risks. Among them, soil erosion is a persistent problem that generates so much damage and all indications are that it will continu...

Presentation in the International Conference & Exhibition for Science (ICES2023) held on February 6–8, 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Massive development projects bring with significant benefits at different scales, but generate impacts and alterations of ecosystem services at the local scale. Progress has been made in addressing these impacts, although knowledge gaps are still identified in relation to the appropriate scale of assessment and the consideration of cultural ecosyst...

Water conflicts arise from geostrategic factors that hide behind visible ones such as the construction of dams. In the case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), it will have a significant impact on development in Ethiopia, but its filling has worried downstream countries about altering the flow of the Nile and associated ecosystems. In th...

The Mediterranean is a climate change hotspot where the rate of warming exceeds the global rate and disruptions in precipitation patterns are predicted. Our recent findings confirm this assumption showing a predictive pattern of precipitation likely to lead to prolonged and staggered intra-annual droughts (even in so-called "wet" years) with profou...

This article analyses, a key contemporary academic concept from the perspective of geography: the Anthropocene. Starting with a brief introduction to its origin and a general framing, we proceed to analyze some of the main dimensions linked to the Anthropocene: the biodiversity crisis, energy transition, and education and research. A specific point...

THIS IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN SPANISH. YOU CAN FIND IN RESEARCHGATE ALSO THE ORIGINAL ONE This article analyzes, from the perspective of geography, a key contemporary academic concept, the Anthropocene. First, starting with a brief introduction to its origin and a general framing, we proceed to analyze some o...

Seawater intrusion is one of the most severe problems confronting coastal aquifers. These aquifers are often considered significant freshwater sources, particularly in arid regions. The water resources mobilized at the Al Hoceima (Northeastern Morocco) come from the Ghiss-Nekkor aquifer and the Abdelkarim El Khattabi dam. The degradation of groundw...

Environmental and climatic factors contribute to the range of causes of increased socioecological conflicts, especially in the transcontinental transition areas. However, knowledge of the precise extent and patterns of environmental change driving social and migratory mutations in these areas is still quite limited. In the article we show that the...

Groundwater protection models systematically assess the vulnerability of the entire aquifer. They require extensive but often scarce or expensive data to produce guidelines that are barely comprehensible to policymakers. A better alternative would be a cartographic fragmentation of the landscape to target locations where polluting activities exist...

Water conflicts arise from geostrategic factors that hide behind visible ones such as the construction of dams. In the case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), it will have a significant impact on development in Ethiopia, but its filling has worried downstream countries about altering the flow of the Nile and associated ecosystems. In th...

Groundwater is a fundamental and strategic resource for water supply of coastal areas, especially in the Mediterranean basin where the irregularity of precipitation, both seasonally and year-on-year, put at risk the availability of surface water in the rivers, which go from being dry for long periods to causing torrential discharges. In particular,...

Nature subcontracted mankind for temporary management stipulating a rigor that does not disregard the smallest details because this is where the difference between perfection and riskiness lies, which inevitably leads to disasters. It establishes binding general rules and local imperatives to be fulfilled otherwise it takes back the reins. For this...

To protect an aquifer, it is common to assess the entire system's vulnerability and use exhaustive but scarce or expensive means to produce guidelines that are barely comprehensible to decision-makers. However, it could be easier, faster, and cost-effective to target locations with potential or predicted polluting activities through a modeling syst...

The delineation of flood zones is a recurrent problem for which modelling is very useful to guide preventive decision-making. However, this is a complex problem due to the assessment uncertainty (multiplication of techniques). Here, three flood flows assessment categories are compared: hydrometeorological, empirical and statistical frequency analys...

In Morocco, it is a challenge to mitigate the socio-economic and environmental impacts of soil erosion by improving management and planning decisions. The country is economically dependent on agriculture, which contributes around 20% of gross domestic product. Agriculture is subject to many constraints such as irregular rainfall and drought periods...

In arid and semi-arid countries, drought monitoring is a difficult issue to deal with, mainly due to the low density of precipitation measurement stations. The present study aims to evaluate the ability of the Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 (v7) to monitor annual precipitation in Morocco. The accuracy of TRMM data to estimate annu...

In coastal watersheds, services and landuse favour coastal tourism and urbanization, depriving rural upstream of infrastructure and attention. This unbalanced management leads to an intensification of socioeconomic changes that generate a structural heterogeneity of the landscape and a reduction in the livelihoods of the rural population. The inces...

In many Mediterranean countries, climate change issues, namely the scarcity of water resources, are essential for overcoming the obstacles to sustainable food production. In Morocco, cereal growing is a strategic sector that contributes significantly to food security. In order to improve socio-economic conditions in rural areas, the purpose of this...

Changing land use patterns is of great importance in environmental studies and critical for land use management decision making over farming systems in arid and semi-arid regions. Unfortunately, ground data scarcity or inadequacy in many regions can cause large uncertainties in the characterization of phenological changes in arid and semi-arid regi...

In the November 2020 issue of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, it was published an article which addressed local risk awareness and precautionary behaviour in north Morocco. Regrettably, the article provides a distorted picture of the reality in the study area. Thus, it cannot achieve the goals suggested by the authors nor can...

The enhancement of water efficiency requires controlling the high demand for irrigated agriculture which depends on improving the capabilities to accurately simulate the water cycle and its components. Among these, evapotranspiration is widely studied to estimate reference evapotranspiration (ET 0) but the performance and accuracy of the estimates...

Le bassin versant de Ghis appartient au climat méditerranéen caractérisé par une saison sèche en été et une saison humide en hiver. Cette succession entraîne le développement de plusieurs formes d'érosion hydrique (ruissellement en nappe, en rigoles, érosion linéaire, ravinement, badlands, glacis, etc.). La zone d’étude est l’une des zones connues...

In the November 2020 issue of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), it was published an article which addressed local risk awareness and precautionary behaviour in north Morocco. Regrettably, the article provides a distorted picture of the reality in the study area. Thus, it cannot achieve the goals suggested by the authors...

Despite the importance of geoheritage as an interdisciplinary geo-based topic, it is poorly documented as a tool of harmonious socioeconomic development and territorial strategic planning. The promotion of this natural resource in rural areas of the southern Mediterranean may strengthen social resilience and consolidate management strategies if it...

In coastal watersheds, services and landuse favour coastal tourism and urbanization, depriving rural upstream of infrastructure and attention. This unbalanced management leads to an intensification of socioeconomic changes that generate a structural heterogeneity of the landscape and a reduction in the livelihoods of the rural population. The inces...

Since the dawn of civilization, the Western Mediterranean region has been a unique path for encounters and exchanges. The stability of the general conditions prevailing in its surrounding was crucial to ensure this vital link between north and south and east and west. However, any imbalance would be the precursor of a harmful domino effect to these...

Despite the importance of geoheritage as an interdisciplinary geo-based topic, it is poorly documented as a tool of harmonious socioeconomic development and territorial strategic planning. The promotion of this natural resource in rural areas of the southern Mediterranean may strengthen social resilience and consolidate management strategies if it...

Air temperature is an important meteorological variable in many fields of our life. However, the availability of air temperature measurements over large geographic areas is often limited by the weather stations spatial distribution inadequacy, their low density and difficulties of data quality and collection. In this context, this study consists to...

Presentation at the Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration, Tunisia 2019

In many Mediterranean countries, climate change issues, including the scarcity of water resources, are essential for overcoming the obstacles to sustainable food production. In Morocco, cereal growing is a strategic sector that contribute significantly to food security. In order to improve socioeconomic conditions in rural areas, the purpose of thi...

At the Arbaa Taourirt rural centre, the Nekor river (part of a 915 km² watershed of the same name) drains two sub-watersheds; high Nekor and West Ait Amar. Peak floods have destructive effects on physical environments and infrastructure. In most southern Mediterranean watersheds, the determination of these floods is complicated by the lack of relia...

This research was conducted at the Tadla plain (central Morocco) that covers a total area of 320 000 ha in the center of the Oum Er-Rbia River basin with a semi-arid climate. During this work, a survey of a hundred farmers was carried out in 2016 in the study area. Based on the collected data, stepwise regression technique was used to develop a new...

This poster summarises the first part of our results published in the paper: Combining Use Of TRMM And Ground Observations Of Annual Precipitations For Meteorological Drought Trends Monitoring In Morocco. the full paper is aviable in: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336441103_Combining_Use_of_TRMM_and_Ground_Observations_of_Annual_Precip...

The Mediterranean mountains of Morocco ("Rif") show an intense sensitivity to hydro-climatic hazards. Hydrologic achievements are thwarted by a series of constraints that request strategic consolidation. The acceleration of socioeconomic activities is causing an increasing pressure on water resources that are already facing insufficiency and degrad...

Ce travail consiste en un inventaire des géomorphosites, appliqué aux régions du nord Marocain (Tanger-Tétouan, El Hoceima), qui se caractérisent par un cadre géomorphologique varié et un environnement naturel exceptionnel. La volonté d’entreprendre une telle recherche découle d’un double constat : on relève d’une part de profondes lacunes dans les...

A national priority at the Moroccan level is to understand the spatiotemporal rainfall irregularity to anticipate suitable strategies for water and agriculture management. The most northern mountainous region shows intense sensitivity to extreme hydroclimatic hazards which may compromise the future of socioeconomic acceleration and further weaken e...

Ce travail consiste en un inventaire des géomorphosites, appliqué aux régions du nord Marocain (Tanger-Tétouan, El Hoceima), qui se caractérisent par un cadre géomorphologique varié et un environnement naturel exceptionnel. La volonté d’entreprendre une telle recherche découle d’un double constat : on relève d’une part de profondes lacunes dans les...

Le Rif central, dominée par un climat méditerranéen, est parmi les régions les plus arrosées du Maroc, surtout dans sa partie sud où l'altitude dépasse les 2400 m. Dans cette région, le bassin versant de l’Oued Ghis se caractérise par des pentes raides et par des précipitations irrégulières, subites et torrentielles, ce qui provoque un écoulement r...

This collective work gathers competent researchers and constitutes an elegant and clear tool to understand the stakes and the constraints of the sustainable development on the Moroccan territory through chapters highlighting the Moroccan experience in the study and follow-up of the current geographical questions and the proposal of feasible and ade...

Ce travail est composé de deux volets principaux : (i) Présentation des traits généraux de la zone d’étude (géographie, géologie, tectonique et climatique) dans le but de saisir le contexte général de la zone d’étude et (ii) révision des principales approches d’évaluation de la vulnérabilité à la pollution et les paramètres nécessaires pour la mise...

This collective work gathers competent researchers and constitutes an elegant and clear tool to understand the stakes and the constraints of the sustainable development on the Moroccan territory through chapters highlighting the Moroccan experience in the study and follow-up of the current geographical questions and the proposal of feasible and ade...

Ce travail est composé de deux volets principaux : (i) Présentation des traits généraux de la zone d’étude (géographie, géologie, tectonique et climatique) dans le but de saisir le contexte général de la zone d’étude et (ii) révision des principales approches d’évaluation de la vulnérabilité à la pollution et les paramètres nécessaires pour la mise...

The inter-urban aquifer of Martil-Alila is located in a coastal zone where the water resources management is a major challenge because of the increasing pollutant discharges due to the strong anthropogenic pressure. Urgent, continuous and well-studied protection measures should be taken to avoid the complexity of these problems and to restore its p...

La ville d'Oued Laou a connu et vécu une croissance démographique importante selon les résultats des recensements généraux de la population et de l’habitat. Ceci a engendré une augmentation directe de l’habitat qui a conduit à une urbanisation rapide et importante. Toutefois, cette urbanisation n'a pas été assujettis aux contrôles juridiques, proba...

Groundwater protection through vulnerability mapping is a necessar y guide to decision-making, particularly in areas where limited hydrogeological potential is exposed to increasing contaminating activities associated to growing socio-economy. This tool is often obstructed by the complexity of methods or the difficulty of finding required parameter...

Planning and decision-making require accurate data, on a smaller scale and with good spatial distribution. In meteorology, there are currently data gaps in the rainfall series recorded in meteorological stations and a well-established hydro-meteorological observation network is lacking. Therefore, one of the lines being developed at the national le...

I n M or occo, water er osion is a ser ious pr oblem that obstructs socioeconomic development and leads to the deterior ation of qualitative and quantitative pedologic and hydr ologic resour ces, mainly in mountainous areas. This risk accentuates the silti ng up of dam reser voir s which annually reduces the stor age capacity by 75 million m3 / yea...

Ce travail a pour objectif d’élaborer l'inventaire des géomorphosites du Parc National de Talassemtane «PNTLS». L’étude de la répartition spatiale des sites géo-touristiques du parc constitue une valeur ajoutée à la province de Chefchaouen dans le but de promouvoir son territoire. L’identification, l’inventaire et la cartographie des géomorphosites...

La tendance du développement social, économique et urbain au voisinage d’Al Hoceima (Nord du Maroc) laisse présager une forte augmentation de la demande en eau. De ce fait, il devient nécessaire de renforcer les possibilités de mobilisation de ces ressources pour faire face à l’augmentation prévisible de la demande et pour sécuriser l’approvisionne...

In Morocco, the phenomenon of water erosion is one of the risks that hinder economic and social development, and that cause soil degradation especially in the mountain regions. The Eastern Rif is a very favorable environment for erosion, in particular the Nekkor catchment area is one of the basins of Morocco most affected by this phenomenon, the se...

Several factors can affect the quantity and the quality of groundwater resources, but in coastal aquifers seawater intrusion is often the most significant issue regarding freshwater supply. Further, saltwater intrusion is a worldwide issue because about seventy percent of the world's population lives in coastal regions. Generally, fresh groundwate...

The Ghis-Nekor aquifer is one of the most important underground hydric reservoir in the province of ALhoceima north of Morocco. The rapid growth of the water demand is contrasted by a climatic irregularity and crucial water quality degradation due to the multiplication of hazardous pollutants releases without prier remediation. Wherefore, the asses...

Ce document environnemental est réalisé en vue d’évaluer les répercussions sur l'Environnement d'un Projet d’ouverture d'une carrière de blocs, gravette et tout venant sise sur le territoire d'une commune rurale à la Province de Safi

Ce document évalue l'impact environnemental d'un projet d'ouverture d'une carrière de granulats pour assurer la production des matériaux de construction tout en contribuant au développement économique des centres urbains et ruraux de son entourage, du Centre et de l’ensemble du pays.

Ce document environnemental est réalisé en vue d’évaluer les répercussions sur l'Environnement du Projet d'exploitation d'une carrière de pélites sise sur le territoire d'une commune rurale à la Province de Tétouan.

Etude géologique de la région de Safi et recherche de site pour une carrière de matériaux graveleux

Ce document environnemental est réalisé en vue d’évaluer les répercussions sur l'Environnement d'un Projet d’ouverture d'une carrière de blocs, gravette et tout venant sise sur le territoire d'une commune rurale à la Province de Youssoufia

Etude d'impact environnemental du projet d’ouverture d’une carrière de pélites dans la commune rurale de Saddina

Ce document environnemental est réalisé en vue d’évaluer les répercussions sur l'Environnement du Projet d'exploitation d'une carrière de gravettes sise sur le territoire d'une commune rurale dans la Province de Tétouan

Plan d'actions environnementales : Rapport établi en vue de la préparation du Schéma Directeur d’Aménagement Urbain du Grand Larache

Document environnemental réalisé en vue d’évaluer les répercussions sur l'Environnement d'un Projet de carrière de gravette sise sur le territoire de la commune rurale de 'El Malalyine' (Province de Tétouan).

Poster at the Euromediterranean Scientific Congress on Engineering

The Ghis-Nekor aquifer is located in the province of Al Hoceima, in northern Morocco. The rapid growth of the water demand is contrasted by a climatic irregularity and crucial water quality degradation due to the multiplication of hazardous pollutants releases without prior remediation. Wherefore, the assessment of groundwater pollution vulnerabili...