Water and Soil Resources Management in Agricultural Areas

Dear Colleagues,

Water scarcity is becoming an urgent global-scale issue by virtue of a shrinking water supply and deteriorating water quality, hampering ecosystem health and socioeconomic development. This restricts the development of the agricultural sector because water resources originally used for agricultural irrigation have to be diverted to domestic, industrial, and ecological activities. This diversion will correspondingly reduce agricultural benefit and thus affect the distribution of crop cultivation. Against this backdrop, agricultural water and soil resources require effective regulation and management to promote agricultural sustainability. However, agricultural water and/or soil management (AWSM) cover a multi-scale range, e.g., crop, field, irrigated area, and watershed. AWSM is relevant to hydrological processes, energy consumption, socioeconomic development, environmental protection, and climate change. Therefore, it is an urgent need to solve the problem from multiple scale perspectives using interdisciplinary methods. Contributions to this Special Issue will encompass a broad spectrum of topics in AWSM, including but not limited to:

• AWSM considering crop growth and social and environment aspects;
• Hydrological processes in AWSM and related effects;
• Optimization of agricultural water–food–energy nexus;
• Modeling-based development for AWSM;
• Management and assessment of AWSM;
• Decision support system of AWSM;
• Quantification of the various water footprints to AWSM;
• Data mining in hydrology and agricultural water and soil-based systems.

Prof. Dr. Qiang Fu
Prof. Dr. Yongqiang Cao
Dr. Tianxiao Li
Prof. Dr. Mo Li
Guest Editors

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