Israel Ropo Orimoloye

Western Michigan University | WMU

Global biodiversity loss and ecosystem services are significantly impacted by vegetation stress and environmental degradation. The study evaluates vegetation dynamics and long-term meteorological variables in Amathole District Municipality, South Africa, using satellite-derived vegetation indices from 2001 to 2022. The study utilised Terra MODIS an...

The global construction industry is experiencing significant innovations, disruptions, and future trends reshaping how projects are planned, executed, and managed. Innovations such as geospatial technology, Building Information Modelling (BIM), robotics, and advanced materials are revolutionising construction processes, increasing efficiency, and r...

The global construction industry is on the brink of a transformative era, marked by the infusion of 5G technology and Generative AI, facilitating enhanced connectivity and optimal decision-making processes in project planning and budgeting. This transformation is also reflected in the evolving workforce, focusing on continuous learning and adaptati...

This research uses a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) model with Google Earth Engine (GEE) to assess the winter season’s land cover and change detection mapping impact on the evapotranspiration (crop water requirement) parameters. Winter seasons, crucial for agricultural planning, and irrigation water requirement challenges in accurately m...

Livelihood and the economies of South Africa are highly vulnerable to climatic fluctuations. Drought, in particular, is one of the most significant natural factors contributing in many parts of South Africa to agricultural losses, poverty, famine, and environmental degradation. Several factors rely on the cumulative effect of drought on a given are...

This paper focus on the drought monitoring and forecasting for semi-arid region based on the various machine learning models and SPI index. Drought phenomena are crucial role in the agriculture and drinking purposes in the area. In this study, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was used to predicted the future drought in the upper Godavari Rive...

Building the resilience of communities is essential in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Scientific research is crucial in identifying gaps in the development of WASH systems and the management of WASH-related hazards . The main purpose of this paper was to analyze the global research evolution on resilience and Water, Sanitation, and...

Watershed characterization and prioritization have become essential for proper natural resources management and sustainable development. This paper introduces an empirical hierarchical method based on the multi-criteria analytical hierarchical process (AHP). This method has been applied for sub-watershed or watershed prioritization and land and wat...

Several approaches have been used in the race against time to mitigate the spread and impact of COVID-19. In this study, we investigated the role of temperature, relative humidity, and particulate matter in the spread of COVID-19 cases within two densely populated cities of South Africa - Pretoria and Cape Town. The role of different levels of COVI...

Current climate projections for Southern Africa indicate an increase in the incidence of extreme weather events in the future. Even though South Africa does not rank among the highest on the world multi-hazard index list, the country is prone to multiple climate-related extreme events which pose substantial human and ecological impacts. Consequentl...

Disaster risk is linked not only to the occurrence of severe hazards but also to the vulnerability factors that make disasters more likely when they do. Vulnerability is frequently associated with a set of fragilities, susceptibilities, and difficulties involving the lack of resilience of exposed human settlements in disaster-prone areas. It is als...

Precise assessment, monitoring and forecasting of drought phenomena are crucial and play a vital role in agriculture and water resources management in the semi-arid region. In this study, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was used to predict the drought in the upper Godavari River basin, India. Ten combinations were used to predict three SPI t...

Weather and climate affect nearly all socioeconomic activities. Humans have been studying stars, moon, the sun, and other celestial bodies with their immediate environment from time immemorial. In fact, the importance of weather studies has made the assertion “what is weather worth” an underestimation. Nowadays, nobody asks such a question about th...

This study utilised Terra MOD13Q1 satellite data to assess drought disaster events and their spatiotemporal patterns over the Free State Province of South Africa between 2001 and 2019 for the summer, autumn, winter, and spring seasons. The study also used high-resolution downscaled climate change projections under three Representative Concentration...

Land use/land cover change (LULCC) has taken unprecedented rates in all corners of the world. The accelerated rate of change has affected ecosystem functioning and human well-being. It, therefore, warrants research and constant monitoring to provide crucial updated information for sustainable conservation, especially in semi-arid environments, and...

The emergence of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) has created a shift from the conventional adaptation approaches often accompanied by high costs, including conflicting interests associated with the dense urban fabric and inflexibility. Therefore, EbA presents a potential for more comprehensive, cost-efficient, multifunctional and multidimensional...

The impact of climate change over the coming decades will increase the likelihood of many species undergoing genetic alterations or even becoming extinct. Vegetation and belowground organisms are more vulnerable to the intensified impact of climate change due to a possible lack of genetic plasticity and limited mobility. Organisms are inter-dependa...

Despite the significance of drought as an important driver of ecological and evolutionary dynamics, we cannot overemphasise the current understanding of the environmental and ecosystem consequences of drought. Drought disaster is one of the key factors restricting vegetation development of several species in a wide variety of ecosystems. The goal o...

Monitoring vegetation dynamics is essential for improving our understanding of how natural and managed agricultural landscapes respond to climate variability and change in the long term. Amathole District Municipality (ADM) in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa has been majorly threatened by climate variability and change during the last decades...

Increasing demand for food and environmental stressors are some of the most challenging problems that human societies face today and these have encouraged new studies to examine drought impacts on food production. Seeking to discuss these important issues in the South African context, this study analyzed the impacts of drought on food security in o...

The effects of climate change and other weather-related disasters pose a high additional risk to the agricultural sector. This study carried out a rigorous assessment of empirical scientific research on weather-index insurance and its impact on smallholder maize farmers’ welfare and productivity. A three-stage analytical approach was used to analyz...

Mountainous environments are particularly vulnerable to climate hazards and other environmental stressors. It provides critical ecological services to the surrounding mountainous areas and, in particular, the lowlands. The effects of a warmer climate and hazards on these services are unfavorable, with negative impacts on water supply, biodiversity,...

Global assessment of vegetation response to climate change (VRCC) studies was conducted to reveal the research evolution, current research hotspots and better understanding of dominant themes in VRCC areas of research from 1992 to 2019 through the use of bibliometrics. A total of 186 articles with the search term “Vegetation response to Climate cha...

An effective disaster management approach for dynamic representation of drought events for spatio-environmental drought distribution requires space-based information. In this study, drought disaster events for three years (2016, 2017 and 2018) for the Free State Province of South Africa were evaluated using remote sensing data. 250m 16 days EVI (MO...

Connections between water, food, and energy are at the center of long-term economic and environmental development and protection. Water, energy and food are the keys to economic input and a necessary component of economic progress. The adoption of water management policies and techniques that support the sustainable use of resources while promoting...

Droughts are particularly disastrous in South Africa and other arid regions that are waterscarce by nature due to low rainfall and water sources. According to some studies, droughts are not uncommon in Africa’s drylands and have been rising in dry African terrain. Warm to hot summers and cool to cold winters describe the climate of the Free State P...

Droughts have been identified as an environmental hazard by environmentalists, ecologists, hydrologists, meteorologists, geologists, and agricultural experts. Droughts are characterised by a decrease in precipitation over a lengthy period, such as a season or a year, and can occur in virtually all climatic zones, including both high and low rainfal...

A gap in carbon accounting within the global south and particularly in Africa is the una-vailability of ordinary emission factors which may be a factor of the unavailability of activity data required to work out emission factors. The purpose of the study is to assess the carbon footprint of one of the oldest universities in West Africa and the olde...

Researchers around the world have recently used data science, deep and machine learning to assess and combat Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The results from this study have presented research on COVID-19 that applied data science, big data, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical and statistical modelling betwee...

Drought severity and its associated impacts remain persistent in the water-stressed regions of the world including the Sahel of Africa. Across the Sahel, there exist limited ground stations monitoring weather observations. This limitation has created an uphill task in trying to understand the role of climate in drought conditions across the entire...

Overdependence on exotic plant species constitutes a major setback for the consumption of wild fruits and vegetables among South Africans. The country is not spared from the adverse effects of climate change which play a substantial role in altering the ecosystem and have a ripple effect on food security. Wild fruits and vegetables have been identi...

This study, therefore, which is focused on forest systems services provisioning in Africa, case of Gambari Forest Reserve, Ibadan, Nigeria, provides policy makers, decision makers, ecologists, environmentalists, the academia, and other stakeholders with a document geared towards promoting national development through sustainable forest products uti...

Conflicting perceptions of sustainability in mining: Influencing factors in the Rustenburg region investigates how communities around the mines experience sustainability. Continued conflict between the mining industry and its host communities threatens sustainability in mining. The onus is on the mining industry to operate more sustainably and init...

Climate change extreme events have consequential impacts that influence the responses of vegetation dynamics as well as ecosystem functioning and sustainable human well-being. Therefore, vegetation response to climate change (VRCC) needs to be explored to foster specific-organised management programmes towards ecological conservation and targeted r...

The world including South Africa is faced with unprecedented environmental changes, which can be linked to climate-related disasters such as drought and extreme heat. Several studies have indicated that these changes are likely to accelerate in the future and cause an adverse impact on the environment. The Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, esp...

Waste management is one of the activities either explicitly or implicitly included in most of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thus, a strong argument can be made for the strategic importance of improving landfill management, insofar as this action will lead to progress towards a number of SDGs, especially in developing countries. Waste...

The understanding of weather and climate extremes provides academics, decision makers, international development agencies, nongovernmental organizations and civil society the necessary information for monitoring and giving early warning to prevent or minimize the risks associated with weather related hazards. Different researches were carried out t...

The impact of climate extremes on the society has been of great concern to environmental scientist and policy makers. The destructive consequence attributed to natural hazards associated with climates extremes has been estimated to billions of dollars across the globe. To carry out a robust and effective researches that help to minimize or prevent...

Terra MOD13Q1 satellite data were used to assess drought disaster events and its spatiotemporal patterns over the Free State Province, South Africa between 2001 and 2019. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) products and climate data downloaded from Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples” (AppEEARS) and NAS...

Drought disaster is one of the major factors restricting the development of vegetation across a wide variety of environments. Monitoring the temporal and spatial dynamics of drought episodes in the study area is crucial for environmental and ecosystem conservation. This study assesses drought disaster by utilising space-based data and R programming...

Ecosystem services refer to the direct and indirect benefits to humanity from an ecosystem. The ability to spatially incorporate multiple biophysical environments is crucial to ecosystem services, thus promoting cooperation between science and policy in seeking solutions to global challenges, including drought disasters. Therefore, understanding ec...

This study utilized Terra MOD13Q1 satellite data to assess drought disaster events and their spatiotemporal patterns over the Free State Province of South Africa between 2001 and 2019 for summer, autumn, winter and spring seasons. The study also used high resolution downscaled climate change projections under three Representative Concentration Path...

The impacts of anthropogenic activities (AA) on the natural environment has been one of the most critical and dynamic research areas within the scope of environmental assessment in recent years. This study aimed at investigating the probabilistic affinity index between environmental health degradation (EHD) and AA globally. In this research, a glob...

Mining contributes significantly to the GDP of South Africa but it also comes with some adverse impacts on the environment. In this study, remote sensing was used to quantify land-use/cover changes in the Welkom – Virginia Goldfields. The aim was to analyse Landsat images with a 5-year interval from 1988 to 2018 using geospatial indices: Global Env...

Water security has been an evolving and swiftly developing research area, which is linked to the Water Footprint, Water Sustainability and Water Productivity (WFSP) concept, essential for ensuring food and water security for countries suffering from water scarcity. A scientometric analysis of WFSP studies was done to investigate the global research...

Conserving the environment and ecosystems in a changing climate poses major challenges for environmental managers and society. Effective adaptive strategies for dealing with climate change-related disasters such as drought require a spatiotemporal systems perspective. Remote sensing data was obtained from the US Geological Survey database. More so,...

This study aimed to explore the rich tapestry of studies on drought disasters, drought vulnerability, drought severity and water shortage (DDVS_WS), taking into account the critical situation and circumstance posed by drought in line with the shortage in water supplies. In total, 1117 original articles were downloaded in a BibTeX format for further...

Globally, disaster risk management (DRM) has gone through a criterion transpose from static to a technology-based proactive approach in managing disasters including natural and anthropogenic disasters. This study aimed at exploring this research niche and to identify the main topical issues currently underway, such as the most disaster risk managem...

The existing drought monitoring mechanisms in the sub-Saharan Africa region mostly depend on the conventional methods of drought monitoring. These methods have limitations based on timeliness, objectivity , reliability, and adequacy. This study aims to identify the spread and frequency of drought in Nigeria using Remote Sensing/Geographic Informati...

Drought events were assessed using remote sensing index (Vegetation Health Index, VHI) and meteorological index (12-month Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI-12) over the Sudano-Sahelian Region of Nigeria (SSRN) between 2000 and 2010. Rainfall data of the SSRN were acquired from nine stations of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET). Monthly...

A bibliometric and network analysis was performed to explore global research publication trends and to investigate relevant policy recommendations in the field of sustainability of natural resources, system dynamics, and systems thinking, to solve water resources issues and enhance water resource management. Overall, 1674 academic research articles...

Theme unsuitability is noted to have inhibited the accuracy of groundwater potential zones (GWPZs) mapping approach, especially in a semi-arid environment where surface water supply is inadequate. This work, therefore presents a geoscience approach for mapping high-precision GWPZs peculiar to the semi-arid area, using Buffalo catchment, Eastern Cap...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) (2015–2030) was specifically initiated to advance Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policy globally, to further understand the complexity of disaster risk in our contemporary time. Despite the potency of the framework, its implementation remains low at the local level. This paper provides a portr...

Identifying ways and practices to alleviate water scarceness is an important policy issue across sectors, particularly in the agricultural sector in arid countries. The present study examines how water scarcity can be alleviated by decreasing the water footprint of sugarcane production using different soil mulching and irrigation systems in South A...

This study aimed at appraising the scientific research on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and to identify their evolutionary trajectory between 1990 and 2019. This study used published research articles on DRR retrieved from the database of Web of Science (WOS) on December 9, 2019, which hosted reliable and efficient high impact scientific research....

Natural and man-made disasters cause tremendous damage to societies around the world. They lead to loss of lives and property, displace people from their homes and destroy livelihoods, and disrupt sustainable development efforts worldwide. Developing countries are particularly susceptible to the impact of natural hazards as societies are more vulne...

Gold Mining operations generate a range of ecological and environmental impacts that can be measured spatially using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing methods. This study assessed land-use and land cover dynamics in the gold mining area using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing techniques with the aid of Landsat 5 for ye...

This study analysed 115 Gold Mining Impact (GMIs) research articles published in Web of Science (WOS) with the highest total lifetime citations and citations per year by summarising the trends, search terms, keywords, most productive authors and their countries based on the area of investigation. To assess the studies that have been undertaken on G...

The world is currently experiencing unprecedented urban growth, industrialization, and the perceived higher standard of living that is often associated with access to better infrastructure. “Surface Heat Island (SHI) is a phenomenon where urban areas experience higher surface temperatures compared to the surrounding rural areas. The presence of the...

Various forms of competition for water and amplified agricultural practices, as well as urban development in South Africa, have modified and destroyed natural wetlands and its biodiversity benefits. To conserve and protect wetlands resources, it is important to file and monitor wetlands and their accompanied land features. Spatial science such as r...

Land use/land cover change (LULCC) has taken unprecedented shear rates in all corners of the world including Kavango River Basin. The accelerated rate of change has affected ecosystem functioning and human wellbeing at varying scales. It, therefore, warrants research and constant monitoring to provide crucial information for sustainable conservatio...

In recent decades, drought has been identified as part of the several regular climate-related hazards happening in many African countries including South Africa, often with devastating implications on food security. Studies have shown that the earth temperature has increased over the recent years which can trigger drought occurrences and other clim...

Spatial planning plays a significant role in enhancing climate change adaptation especially within urban areas by improving their resilience. Despite all this, cities especially in developing countries still experience the effects of climate change. This paper adopted a mixed method approach to examine township spatial planning and climate change a...

Urban regions have exceptional attributes that leave their dwellers and properties vulnerable to climate variability and change. Global temperatures continue to change, reaching new levels almost every year for the past two decades. This review examines the scientific evidence on the impact of climate change on urban and human health. It identifies...