Rabia Shabbir

• Ph.D.
• Lecturer at Fatima Jinnah Women University

As the global market for renewable energy solutions expands, geospatial analysis is becoming crucial for optimizing solar potential. The current study assesses the suitability of installing PV solar system in the Mardan, Peshawar, and Nowshera districts in Pakistan using a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. Analysis of different parame...

Air pollution is a serious public health issue in Pakistan’s metropolitan cities, including Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi. Pakistan’s urban areas are vulnerable due to air pollution drivers such as industrial activities, vehicular emissions, burning processes, emissions from brick kilns, urbanization, and other human activi...

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are important for gaining a perspective on environmental dynamics and the impact on climate, urbanization, and resources. To ensure that it is safe to monitor the changes over time and to adopt the right forceful changes in our area, remote sensing is one of the ways to monitor the local and regional level lan...

Heavy metal contamination of drinking water, primarily driven by industrial activities, represents a critical challenge, with implications for human health and environmental safety. Gujranwala is an industrial and thickly populated city. The current study aimed to assess and compare heavy metal contamination levels in drinking water from five indus...

Reliable estimates of how human activities may affect wildlife populations are critical for making scientifically sound resource management decisions. A significant issue in estimating the consequences of management, development, or conservation measures is the need to account for a variety of biotic and abiotic factors, such as land use and climat...

This study shows the Collection of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and their contribution to sustainable rural livelihoods in selected areas around Ayubia National Park, Pakistan. Forests are an important component for daily life of rural residents living near forested areas. A protected area is a geographically designated area for the purpose o...

Accelerated urbanization and haphazard expansion of cities results in infrastructure damages, deterioration of agriculture land and water quality, and many microclimatic changes. The unparalleled growth in population put pressure on leap-frog development and uneven distribution of public facilities. The present study endeavored the urban land suita...

Identification of previously existing traffic accident hotspots is the first step to ensure future road safety. The study focused on providing GIS based geo-statistical surveillance for the road traffic Accidents (RTA) in Rawalpindi for five years (2009-2013) to determine the high risk areas or hotspots. For this purpose, spatial autocorrelation (M...

One of the detailed and useful ways to develop land use classification maps is use of geospatial techniques such as remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS). It vastly improves the selection of areas designated as agricultural, industrial and/or urban sector of a region. In Islamabad city and its surroundings, change in land use has b...

This study provides an analysis of the soil, vegetation types and species distribution along Rawal Dam, Rawal Lake and its three tributaries (Bani Gala, Chattar and Bari Imam Streams and its tributaries), with a focus on the environmental factors that control species distribution. After identifying the study area’s herbaceous vegetation and analyzi...

One of the features of medical geography that has made it so useful in health research is statistical spatial analysis, which enables the quantification and qualification of health events. The main objective of this research was to study the spatial distribution patterns of malaria in Rawalpindi district using spatial statistical techniques to iden...

The vulnerability evaluation is always an initial step toward sustainable development. Therefore, the regionalization of the assessment to rationally utilize and develop water resources and planning for the amelioration of the vulnerability status is very important and has practical significance. The present study was aimed to analyze the vulnerabi...

Evaluation of watersheds and development of a management strategy require accurate measurement of the past and present land cover/land use parameters as changes observed in these parameters determine the hydrological and ecological processes taking place in a watershed. This study applied supervised classification-maximum likelihood algorithm in ER...

Water quality assessment has always been a dominant part of environmental quality management. The present study involved the suitability assessment and mapping of groundwater quality for agricultural activities and drinking purposes in Rawalpindi and Islamabad area. A total of 22 samples were collected from borewells and open wells, and these water...

Microorganisms play an important role in the bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated wastewater and soil. In this research, isolation of heavy metal-resistant fungi was carried out from wastewater-treated soil samples of Hudiara drain, Lahore. The purpose of the present investigation was to observe fungal absorption behavior toward heavy metal....

Changes observed in land cover/use parameters determine the hydrological and ecological processes taking place in a watershed. Hence, the present study was focused on analysis of the change detection in Rawal watershed, Islamabad using satellite data for the years 1992 and 2012 respectively. Land cover change was detected by applying a supervised c...

The present study was conducted at Korang river, Islamabad to determine soil and vegetation associations and affiliations. Herbaceous flora and soil samples were collected randomly by using 1×1 square meters quadrate. For each plant in quadrate visual cover estimation was noted. Twenty one species belonging to 14 families were identified. CCA (Cano...

Roadside urban greenbelts play an important role in increasing urban aesthetic, comport, and atmospheric qualities. This significant role of plants in urban roadside greenbelts cannot be denied. Therefore, a strong research is required to carve out the role of plants in both qualitative and quantitative terms for sustainable planning and management...

Demand of energy in agricultural division and emission associated with crop production and farm operations analyzed by modeling software called LEAP. By this software total demand for energy in agricultural area estimated from the base year 2009 to 2030, for future energy requirement by mean of extrapolation. Different scenarios were developed b...

This research study analyses energy and environmental influences of three energy scenariosin three different sectors of Pakistan.Coal-fired energy is majorly used in the industrial sector as well as for the power generation in Pakistan. The LEAP (Long Range Energy Alternative Planning System) model was used to estimate total coal energy demand and...

Planning to come across the future electricity demand at household level is indispensable requirement for the scheduling the power system growth. The present study provided the framework of current and future electricity demand at rural and urban domestic level in Pakistan. Electricity demand in urban and rural areas was simulated by using data...

Fungi, including Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium solani, and Penicillium chrysogenum, resistant to heavy metals like Cr and Pb were isolated after screening soil samples from peri-urban agricultural areas. The objective of soil sample screening was to investigate the status of heavy metals and to identify the heavy metal-tolerant fu...

Nitrogen dioxide is an important gaseous air pollutant. It plays a major role in atmospheric chemistry, particularly in the formation of secondary air pollutants, and contributes to environmental acidification. A comprehensive assessment of NO2 levels in the atmosphere is required for developing effective strategies for control of air pollution and...

This study presents analysis of the current status of energy demand of agriculture sector of Punjab, which is associated with agricultural inputs and farm operations. It also included past trends and future scenarios in order to reduce the future energy demand. A computer based software called Long Range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) i...