Part I. Land Use and Land Cover Change -- Examining the Effect of Land Use on the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Temperature in an Industrial City: A Landsat Imagery Analysis -- The study of Multi-Temporal Analysis of Urban Development and Environmental Changes of the City of Abu Dhabi -- CRF-based Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of High-Resolution Satellite Images -- The Dynamic of Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta during 1964-2012 -- Part II. Agriculture Monitoring -- Effects of irrigation and nitrogen on maize growth and yield components -- A Review of the Effects of Drought on the Grain Yield in the Vays, Mollasani and Salamat Regions of the Khuzestan Province -- Part III. Smart City -- Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction through Web-map Applications -- Mapping sand dune fields in Abu Dhabi Emirate over the period of 1992-2013 using Landsat data -- Spatio–temporal Analysis and Image Registration for Studying Growth of Transportation Infrastructure in Sharjah City, UAE -- Part IV. Climate Change -- Assessment of the potential impacts of sea level rise on the Coastal Plain of Al Batinah, Sultanate of Oman -- Climate Change and Insecurity: An Examination of Gombe State’s Predicament in the North-Eastern Nigeria -- Climate Change and Forced Migration from Ngala and Kala-Balge LGAs, N.E. Borno State, Nigeria -- Part V. Risk Assessment -- Detection of Areas Associated with Flash Floods and Erosion Caused by Rainfall Storm Using Topographic Attributes, Hydrologic Indices, and GIS -- Collapse assessment of substandard concrete structures for seismic loss estimation of the building inventory in the UAE -- Slope Stability Risk Management in Open Pit Mines -- Part VI. Disaster Management -- Status of Spatial Analysis for Urban Emergency Management -- Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Gypsum Seam Hazard for Abu Dhabi.