1. Geography Department, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and Department of Geography and GIS, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
2. Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar
3. National Center for Remote Sensing Technology, Space and Aeronautics Research Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
4. Department of Economic and Finance, College of Economics and Political Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
5. School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
6. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK, and Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China