PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 20, Issue no.1/ 2026

Authors :

Niamat Ullah 1,2,3,4* , Shafi Ullah 5 , Said Qasim 6 , Muhammad Talha 7 and Syed Ahmed Shah 3

1 State Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Engineering Resilience, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu ,China.

 2 University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing , China. 

3 Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS), Lab (NCGSA), Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Pakistan. 

4 Department of Colleges, Higher & Technical Education, Balochistan, Pakistan. 

5 Department of Computer Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Pakistan. 

6 Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Balochistan, Pakistan. 

7 Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing , China.

E-mail : * Corresponding author:  niamatullahza@gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2026201006

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