How Does Agricultural Water Resources Management Adapt to Climate Change?
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 52830
Special Issue Editor
Interests: agricultural water management; climate-water effects; GIS/modelling approaches; hydrological extremes; precision agriculture
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Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture is the world's largest water consumer, while at the same time water resources worldwide are under pressure from rapidly growing demands as well as climate change. The intensification of water cycles, as an effect of climate change, creates, in many cases, serious damage to traditional cropping systems due to either water shortage leading to drought and desertification phenomena or due to excess water leading to floods and soil losses. In view of the overall consequences of future climate conditions on agriculture, adaptation measures to mitigate water-related effects and increase water use efficiency should be adopted by farmers.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to increase the scientific knowledge of agricultural water resources management and climate change interactions at a local, regional, and global scale. It is also of high importance to investigate the adaptability of agriculture to the changing climate–water environment based on the advantages of soil and crop management, precision agriculture, and novel modelling/geoinformatics approaches.
Based on this, the proposed Special Issue will provide valuable information to the readership of the Water Journal (MDPI). The topics given below will be considered for inclusion.
Dr. Nektarios N. Kourgialas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- agricultural water use efficiency
- water supplies and climate change in agriculture
- geoinformatics & decision support systems
- irrigation & hydrological modeling
- hydrological extremes in agriculture
- modernization of irrigation systems/precision agriculture
- soil–water management approaches (farm/river basin scale)
- reuse of treated water for irrigation purposes
- salt water irrigation management plans
- optimization approaches in agricultural water management
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