Amir Gohar's Outputs (7)

Global survey shows planners use widely varying sea-level rise projections for coastal adaptation (2023)
Journal Article

Including sea-level rise (SLR) projections in planning and implementing coastal adaptation is crucial. Here we analyze the first global survey on the use of SLR projections for 2050 and 2100. Two-hundred and fifty-three coastal practitioners engaged... Read More about Global survey shows planners use widely varying sea-level rise projections for coastal adaptation.

Book review of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-state, by Gareth Doherty (2023)
Journal Article

Tourism and urbanization, an interconnected evolution (2021)
Journal Article

While there is extensive literature on the evolution of tourism and the urbanization process, the interlinks between these two evolutions are not yet fully explored; maybe because they are separate disciplines, or taught independently of each other.... Read More about Tourism and urbanization, an interconnected evolution.

How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt (2020)
Journal Article

Eco-tourism is a growing part of the tourism industry. However, there are no agreed-upon criteria of what constitutes eco-tourism, so the industry is currently self-identified, with eco-lodges simply declaring themselves so. Here we present the first... Read More about How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt.

Bridges over the Nile: Transportation corridors transformed into public spaces (2020)
Journal Article

Cairo is a congested city with high rate of urbanization and very limited public space. Cairo has one of the lowest rates of parkland per capita of any major city. Moreover, the banks of the Nile, formerly alive with activities such as washing, fishi... Read More about Bridges over the Nile: Transportation corridors transformed into public spaces.

Greening and opening the public space of the Nile banks: A demonstration case study in Maadi, Cairo (2018)
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The Nile, in general, and particularly in Cairo, is an ecological, cultural and social corridor that is not yet fully utilized. The 2011 Cairo workshop “Connecting Cairo to the Nile” identified the potential to increase accessibility to the river, su... Read More about Greening and opening the public space of the Nile banks: A demonstration case study in Maadi, Cairo.

Flash flooding as a threat to settlements even in remote areas (2016)
Journal Article

Desert environments are subject to flash floods in wadi floors, which may occur only once every decade or two in a given wadi (dry channels or valleys, except during rains). In areas of rapid growth, flood-prone areas can become urbanized in the time... Read More about Flash flooding as a threat to settlements even in remote areas.