Gricelda Herrera-Franco;Paulo Escandón-Panchana;F.J. Montalván;Andrés Velastegui-Montoya - Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Santa Elena Peninsula State University, Avda. principal La Libertad, 240204, La Libertad, Ecuador;Geo-Recursos y Aplicaciones GIGA, ESPOL Polytechnic University, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador;Geology area, ESCET, Rey Juan Carlos University, c/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Madrid, Spain;Facultad de Ingeniería en Ciencias de la Tierra, ESPOL Polytechnic University, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador;Centro de Investigación y Proyectos Aplicados a las Ciencias de la Tierra (CIPAT), ESPOL Polytechnic University, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador;Geoscience Institute, Federal University of Pará, 66075-110 Belém, Brazil

Majid Labbaf Khaneiki;Abdullah Saif Al-Ghafri;Bj?rn Kl?ve;Ali Torabi Haghighi - UNESCO Chair on Aflaj Studies and Archaeo-Hydrology, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman;Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Anne Cecilie L?venskiold;Xiangping Hu;Wenwu Zhao;Francesco Cherubini - Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Industrial Ecology Programme, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway;State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Mingxing Chen;Liangkan Chen;Jiafan Cheng;Jianhui Yu - Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;College of Resource and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Shouzhi Chen;Yongshuo H. Fu;Fanghua Hao;Xiaoyan Li;Sha Zhou;Changming Liu;Jing Tang - College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China;State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Water Cycle and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, S?lvegatan 12, SE-22362, Lund, Sweden;Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark

Felicity Aphiwe Mkhongi;Walter Musakwa - Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2093, South Africa

Niaz Mahmud Zafri;Asif Khan - Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)-1000, Bangladesh

Changsheng Ye;Mengshan Hu;Lei Lu;Qian Dong;Moli Gu - School of Earth Sciences, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China

Teresa Santos;Filipa Ramalhete;Rui Pedro Juli?o;Nuno Pires Soares - Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Av. de Berna, 26 C, Lisboa 1069-061, Portugal;Studies Centre on Architecture, City and Territory (CEACT), Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Rua Fernando Assis Pacheco, 207, Lisboa 1350-300, Portugal