Integrating Groundwater Management with Land Use in Agricultural Landscapes
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 September 2025 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil and groundwater; geochemistry, soils and water sediments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water is an essential resource for livelihood, food production, and industry. Water bodies occupy a significant part of land. In order to have good quality water resources, proper spatial planning must be undertaken. Furthermore, groundwater is a key resource in many countries in the world for both water supply and agriculture. The aim of this Special Issue is to discuss situation of water management, spatial planning, groundwater monitoring, mapping of aquifers, resources assessment, water supply, standard water regulations, with emphasis on zoning (of stressed areas), licensing, metering, and pricing. Also, it is very important to analyse surface and groundwater interaction due to climate change, impact of urbanisation on groundwater quantity and quantity, in particular sealing of surfaces, modelling of groundwater resources availability. There are particular problems in many places of subsidence of surface due to groundwater withdrawal to be discussed. Aspects of groundwater quality and impact on human health are getting more and more significant.
- Suggested themes and article types for submissions.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Water, land management and climate change
- Water and population
- Surface water and groundwater interaction
- Groundwater resources
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Jonas Satkūnas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- groundwater resources and quality
- monitoring and mapping of aquifers
- resources assessment
- water-land management
- modelling
- climate change
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