The Mechanism of Land-Water Interaction and Management Strategies: Recent Discoveries and the Way Forward
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Systems and Global Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1441
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water resources; land use planning; green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; soil and water bioengineering; erosion; natural hazard and risk mitigation; environmental impact assessment; strategic environmental assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
Over recent years, the number of activities, policies, and studies has multiplied, and an increasing amount of research has produced evidence about the influences of land-use change in hydrological processes. Although this is a research area that has been around for some time, in the actual scenario of climate change it has become urgent and imperative to define the way forward.
Global changes in land use, especially urbanization with vegetation removal, soil sealing, and deforestation, are acknowledged as being able to significantly modify rainfall partitioning into surface runoff and groundwater recharge, altering water cycle processes and increasing the vulnerability of the system.
Currently, issues and risks associated with land-use change represent a challenge to hydrological processes, posing multiple pressures for components of the hydrological cycle at the watershed scale, to which science needs to respond.
Other studies have revealed a complex relationship between land use and hydrological processes. This being the case, models and GIS tools have been used to discuss the influence of land-use changes in these processes, namely on runoff mechanisms and infiltration coefficients, which have been essential.
The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate the response of hydrological processes to land-use change and the way forward, which can help managers coordinate the relationship between this change and water resource planning.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Carla Rolo Antunes
Prof. Dr. Shiliang Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land use change
- hydrological processes
- models
- hydrological variables
- runoff
- infiltration
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