Sustainable Crop Management and Water Footprint
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 6151
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainability of natural and rural systems; water productivity and sustainability; climate change impacts on agricultural systems; agricultural innovation adoption; application of systems approaches (systems thinking and system dynamics) to address complex issues of the rural and agricultural sectors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to contribute to the Special Issue of Sustainability that is focused on sustainable crop management and water footprints.
Water has become one of the most limiting resources for crop production. The water footprint is an indicator that covers both direct and indirect water use in products or production processes. Research on water footprints of different cropping systems not only informs further improvements in water use efficiency and water productivity but also facilitates sustainable cropping industries. This Special Issue of Sustainability is intended to serve as a platform for sharing research findings and insights into any of the following topics:
- Water footprint accounts of different cropping systems
- Strategies, practices, and techniques to reduce water footprints of different cropping systems
- Insights of managing cropping systems to reduce water footprints in different cropping systems
- Using water footprints to inform sustainable crop management
- Using water footprints to facilitate further improvements in water productivity and water use efficiency
- The dynamics interactions between water footprints, water productivity, and water use efficiency in cropping systems
- The social, economic, and environmental implications of all the abovementioned aspects
Contributions of either theoretical or empirical research are welcomed. Contributions on topics other than those mentioned above but that are closely related to sustainable crop management and water footprints are also of interest.
Dr. Daowei Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable agriculture
- sustainable crop management
- water footprint
- water productivity
- water use efficiency
- agricultural water management
- irrigated cropping systems
- rainfed/dryland cropping systems
- agricultural resource management
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