Watershed Processes in the Face of Dynamic Landscapes and Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is organized for selected papers presented at the 2021 Environment and Society conference (https://eas-conference.fiu.edu/). The conference is scheduled for 22–23 November, 2021 at Florida International University, Miami, USA. Various presenters from different regions of the world will participating in the presentation of oral and posters over two days.

The world is facing unprecedented pressure by the growing population and its associated demand for natural resources including land, water, and other related resources. The climate crisis is a reality showing its forces year-after-year, adversely impacting various sectors and processes such as water resources, agriculture, forestry, and nutrient cycling. These two forces, demand driven landscape changes as well as climate change, need to be understood very well. Over the last few decades, many efforts have been made to control the degradation of the land (i.e., agricultural, forest, and range lands) but the process of adoption of new conservation technologies is still under discussion. Additionally, the availability of these new technologies or technical personnel trained for this change is limited in many parts of the world. Their impacts on the various sectors, scales of their impact, vulnerability of communities and environmental resources are key areas of research that will be presented in the conference. Impacts on water availability and quality, land degradation, drought, and flood hazards are focus areas of the conference.

The main thematic area of the conference is understanding the response of watersheds in the face of landscape dynamics and climate change. Topics that will be covered in this Special Issue will be landcover dynamics and scaling, urbanization and urban heat island, land degradation and sediment transport, water pollution, land–lake connectivity and lake pollution, irrigation water management and salinity, transboundary water basins and governance, virtual water and water footprint, remote sensing and machine learning applications in hydrology, drought and flood modeling and forecasting, wetlands, ecosystem services, coastal flooding and vulnerability, climate change and water resources, and other related areas. This Special Issue will provide deep insights towards understanding climate change adaptation strategies.

The Special Issue will be open to submissions by authors who did not present at the conference.

Prof. Dr. Assefa M. Melesse
Dr. Omid Rahmati
Dr. Khabat Khosravi
Guest Editors

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