Environmental Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Soil, Water and Crops

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Sustainability is launching a multi-disciplinary Special Issue on "Environmental Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Soil, Water and Crops" and invites researchers, experts, and professionals from research institutions, universities, national and international organizations, and enterprises to contribute their research achievements in this field. In the last half century, environmental resources have been facing significant stress, resulting in water, soil and crop-related degradation, while, at the same time, climate change has been affecting the intensity of the hydrological cycle.

Based on the above, it is very importance to increase water/soil and crop productivity under anthropogenic interventions and/or extreme climate conditions, through various measures such as adaptive agronomic practices and geoinformatics approaches (advantages in modelling, GIS, precision agriculture, and remote sensing applications).

The main aim of this Special Issue is to enhance scientific knowledge on agriculture, environment, and agroecosystems with emphasis on the interactions among water/soil resources, crop management, and climate change impacts at local, regional, and global scales. In addition, studies that focus on new developments in the processes governing agroecosystem functions, interactions with the environment, and the provision of ecosystem services are of great importance. One of the main aims of this Special Issue is to advance our understanding of how agriculture influences the environment and how changes in that environment impact agroecosystems. We particularly encourage studies of agroecosystems that deal with new knowledge and modelling approaches relevant to soil, water, and crop management.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Nektarios N. Kourgialas
Guest Editor

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