Interaction between Climate Change and Land Use/Cover of a Watershed
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 October 2023) | Viewed by 462
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; land use and land cover; water stress; soil erosion; sediment transport; jet erosion test; watershed assessment; streambank stability
Interests: open channel hydraulics; water quality modeling; hydraulics structures simulation; CFD modeling for hydraulics problem; hydrology and ground water monitoring
Interests: climate change; hydrology; land cover; extreme climate change indices; probability distribution; water balance models; extreme events; rainfall-runoff models; remote sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The influence of climate changes on land use and land cover is of interest worldwide. Climate change is anticipated to raise overall temperatures in the 21st century, and this will influence the quantity of surface runoff as well as the behavior of land use and land cover in a specific watershed, especially in the transboundary watersheds. Water scarcity or stress is currently the world’s largest environmental issue. The threats of climate change are interrelated and closely linked to landscape, water demand, overpopulation, poverty, and hydrological processes.
I am acting as Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Sustainability on the interaction between climate change and land use/cover of watersheds. The aim of this Issue is to investigate the influence of climate change on land use and hydrological processes on water surfaces, as well as the influence of climate change on soil erosion and/or stream sediment transport processes at any temporal or spatial scale throughout a catchment, especially in transboundary watersheds. I invite high-quality research submissions covering a broad range of topics, including global climate change, land use and land cover, droughts, floods, surface runoff, hydrological modeling, water stress, soil erosion, and sediment transport.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Advances in the impacts of climate change on land use and land cover;
- Innovative research on the interplay of climate change on water scarcity, especially on transboundary watersheds;
- Impact of climate change on hydrological, hydraulic, soil erosion, and morphological monitoring;
- Individual and community vulnerability to climate change impacts on surface runoff during flood and drought seasons.
I am excited to receive your contributions
Prof. Dr. Abdul-Sahib T. Al-Madhhachi
Prof. Dr. Shaymaa Abdul Muttaleb Alhashimi
Dr. Noor Mahdi Naqi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- land use and land cover
- droughts
- floods
- surface runoff
- hydrological modeling
- water stress
- soil erosion
- sediment transport
