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Water Resources and Land Use Planning II

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil-Sediment-Water Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 8335

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Dr. Carla Rolo Antunes

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Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
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,

Water is a fundamental resource for life and the structuring of territories and the landscape. The watercourses promoting the connection in the territory, being dynamic components of the systems with high biodiversity and some functions, namely, hydrologic, hydraulic, biophysical, ecological, economic, landscape, and social.

The integration of the water resource in the context of spatial planning instruments, as a promoter of environmental, economic, and social amenities is essential, both to reduce the risk to urban communities, and to reduce conflicts between users, or even to ensure the protection of ecosystems associated with river systems. This process requires complex, integrative, and interdisciplinary analyzes simultaneously involving populations, thus, establishing links between natural and cultural elements.

During the past years, activities, policies, and research have multiplied, and an increasing number of studies have produced evidence of the impacts of land uses and land management practices on the quantity and quality of water resources. The land use environmental effects require the establishment of coordinated strategies between land use planning and water resource management, to generate sustainable land use scenarios.

Currently, environmental issues and risks associated with climate change represent a challenge to the resilience of the territories, posing multiple challenges and pressures for water resources, to which water management and land use planning need to respond.

A greater understanding of society regarding these issues requires new approaches to solve the existing problems, imposing challenges to current land and water resources users.

Current trends are focused on models that promote adaptation and resilience of the territory, through integrated and sustainable strategies, so that water resources continue to fulfill human needs and to promote social well-being in addition to environmental balance.

Urban development and land-use are acknowledged as a source of pressures, which can significantly alter the water cycle and increase the vulnerability of the system.

This Special Issue focuses on the relationship between water and territory. It aims to advance and share current insights in water management and land use planning. The purpose of this issue is to provide up-to-date knowledge in planning and water management in order to be one tool that can be used to evaluate territorial integration in water management.

Dr. Carla Rolo Antunes
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • land use planning
  • integrated water resource management
  • threshold scenarios
  • sustainability
  • best management practices
  • resilience

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Phytoplankton in the Ecological Assessment of the Mining Facilities Influence on the Anabar River in the Permafrost Zone of the Arctic, Eastern Siberia, Russia
by Sophia Barinova, Viktor Gabyshev and Olga Gabysheva
Land 2023, 12(9), 1775; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091775 - 13 Sep 2023
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In modern conditions of climate change and increased anthropogenic pressure on aquatic ecosystems, the study of the diversity of organisms in the Arctic has become a top priority. Our study continues a series of studies on the biodiversity of Arctic rivers. Using innovative [...] Read more.
In modern conditions of climate change and increased anthropogenic pressure on aquatic ecosystems, the study of the diversity of organisms in the Arctic has become a top priority. Our study continues a series of studies on the biodiversity of Arctic rivers. Using innovative methods, such as ecological mapping, statistics, and bioindication, we identify environmental factors that influence phytoplankton diversity in the river basin under study. For the Anabar Arctic River, an increase in the diversity of phytoplankton was found to the north towards the mouth of the river, which is associated with an increase in turbidity from industrial discharges. A weak effect of organic pollution and toxic effects associated with existing settlements have been identified, but it has been established that natural processes of self-purification take place in the studied Arctic River. Among 210 species of phytoplankton, an increase in the diversity of chrysophytes in the northern direction was revealed, consistent with the intensification of severe Arctic climatic conditions. Since the study region is characterized by increased diamond mining, we recommend continuing to monitor phytoplankton, track changes in the Anabar River ecosystem, and expand such observations to other Arctic rivers. Full article
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City and Water Risk: Accumulated Runoff Mapping Analysis as a Tool for Sustainable Land Use Planning
by Anna Porębska, Krzysztof Muszyński, Izabela Godyń and Kinga Racoń-Leja
Land 2023, 12(7), 1345; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12071345 - 05 Jul 2023
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The complex integration of water and flood risk management, climate change adaptation, and sustainable planning requires advanced, dynamic tools that are unavailable to most planning offices. This paper aims to demonstrate that the available GIS technologies and large, variable, and diverse datasets (big [...] Read more.
The complex integration of water and flood risk management, climate change adaptation, and sustainable planning requires advanced, dynamic tools that are unavailable to most planning offices. This paper aims to demonstrate that the available GIS technologies and large, variable, and diverse datasets (big data) already allow us to create effective, easy-to-use, and, most importantly, cross-sectorial and holistic tools that integrate issues related to planning, flood risk management, and adaptation to climate change. Resulting from an interdisciplinary study of districts in Kraków, Poland, which have been heavily affected by pluvial floods in recent years, the accumulated runoff mapping analysis method proposed in this paper can be considered an effective planning tool that can be used at the initial stage of pluvial flood risk assessment and, above all, for spatial planning analysis and urban design. The proposed tool accounts for a correlation of development, land cover, and hydrological conditions, as well as their impact on vulnerability and the urban climate, while integrating environmental, urban, and social amenities. Intended for preliminary planning phases, it uses open-source software and data, which, although giving approximate runoff volumes, do not require advanced hydrological calculations or costly and time-consuming field research. The method allows studying alternative scenarios that can support the cross-sectorial, inclusive, and interdisciplinary discussion on new developments, sustainable planning, and adaptation to climate change. Most importantly, it can reduce, if not eliminate, issuing decisions that may have negative impacts on urban areas and enhance their resilience before more sophisticated, detailed, and advanced methods are ready for implementation. Full article
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Study on the Coordination of New Urbanization and Water Ecological Civilization and Its Driving Factors: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China
by Daxue Kan, Wenqing Yao, Xia Liu, Lianju Lyu and Weichiao Huang
Land 2023, 12(6), 1191; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061191 - 06 Jun 2023
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For sustainable development of the world, it is crucial to solve the problems related to water environment pollution, water shortage, and the inefficient utilization of water resources during the process of urbanization in developing countries. At present, scholars mainly focus on the measurement [...] Read more.
For sustainable development of the world, it is crucial to solve the problems related to water environment pollution, water shortage, and the inefficient utilization of water resources during the process of urbanization in developing countries. At present, scholars mainly focus on the measurement of new urbanization (NU) and the water ecological civilization (WEC) level and the coordination relationship between NU and ecological civilization. However, there have been few studies on the coordination relationship between NU and WEC and its driving factors. We take the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) in China as a case study, construct the indicator system of NU and WEC, analyze the current situation of NU and WEC in the YREB, and study the coordination state of NU and WEC in the YREB from 2011 to 2020 by using a state coordination function. We further examine the factors driving the coordination of NU and WEC by employing a two-way fixed-effects model. The results show the following: (1) The growth rate of NU and WEC in the YREB shows a fluctuating upward trend, where there is significant heterogeneity between the upper reaches, the middle reaches, and the lower reaches of the YREB. (2) The static coordination degree of NU and WEC in the YREB shows a trend of fluctuating upwards and then falling, and the dynamic coordination degree deviated from the coordinated development trajectory from 2018 to 2020. The classification of the static coordination degree of various regions in the YREB gradually becomes obvious with significant spatial aggregation characteristics, and the dynamic coordination degree of various regions has significant heterogeneity. (3) The opening-up degree, foreign direct investment, population growth, and urban–rural income gap are not advantageous to the coordination degree, while the marketization level, industrial structure, and human capital are advantageous to the coordination degree, but the regression coefficients of the latter two are not significant. The regional regression results show that the impacts of driving factors on the coordination degree have obvious heterogeneity. The research results provide a new idea and method that can be used by developing countries similar to the YERB to control water pollution, improve the ecological environment, alleviate water shortages, and improve the level of WEC in the process of NU. Full article
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A Step from Vulnerability to Resilience: Restoring the Landscape Water-Storage Capacity of the Great Hungarian Plain—An Assessment and a Proposal
by Gábor Timár, Gusztáv Jakab and Balázs Székely
Land 2024, 13(2), 146; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13020146 - 26 Jan 2024
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The extreme drought in Europe in 2022 also hit hard the Great Hungarian Plain. In this short overview article, we summarize the natural environmental conditions of the region and the impact of river control works on the water-retention capacity of the landscape. In [...] Read more.
The extreme drought in Europe in 2022 also hit hard the Great Hungarian Plain. In this short overview article, we summarize the natural environmental conditions of the region and the impact of river control works on the water-retention capacity of the landscape. In this respect, we also review the impact of intensive agricultural cultivation on soil structure and on soil moisture in light of the meteorological elements of the 2022 drought. The most important change is that the soil stores much less moisture than in the natural state; therefore, under the meteorological conditions of summer 2022, the evapotranspiration capacity was reduced. As a result, the low humidity in the air layers above the ground is not sufficient to trigger summer showers and thunderstorms associated with weather fronts and local heat convection anymore. Our proposed solution is to restore about one-fifth of the area to the original land types and usage before large-field agriculture. Low-lying areas should be transformed into a mosaic-like landscape with good water supply and evapotranspiration capacity to humidify the lower air layers. Furthermore, the unfavorable soil structure that has resulted from intensive agriculture should also be converted into more permeable soil to enhance infiltration. Full article
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