Environmental Impact Assessment on Soil and Water Conservation
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2023) | Viewed by 4556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land planning; water exces removal; irrigation; soil erosion control; soil fertility; environment protection
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Interests: geomorphology; pedology; land use; land degradation; soil erosion; gully erosion; soil conservation measures; GIS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The efficient and sustainable use of agricultural land primarily depends on the application technical, economic, legal, and social measures to manage, arrange (equip), and capitalize on them for the optimal development of production processes in agriculture and to protect the environment. On the other hand, existence on Earth is directly linked to the ubiquity of water as an element of the environment, a constituent of living matter and food, support for a wide range of food sources and a necessity for the creation and development of human settlements, and an indispensable factor for fertilizing arid land as well as for the productivity of current agricultural areas.
Nowadays, the increasingly aggressive intervention of anthropogenic factors in the chaining of natural factors has amplified the intensity of soil degradation processes through erosion, landslides, compaction, and pollution. Against the background of the changes in the climate that we are witnessing, the excessive and inappropriate exploitation of the fertile lands favors the extension of the desertification phenomenon.
Another global issue that is just as pressing is the identification of the approach to water pollution, which is expected to be accentuated against the background of the current demographic increase.
In this context, we consider it appropriate and necessary for both scientists and practitioners to express their point of view on Environmental Impact Assessment on Soil and Water Conservation.
Taking a deliberately broad approach to the topic, we are happy to consider original proposals in fields including, but not limited to:
- Soil and water resource management;
- Land degradation by soil erosion, gullying, and landslides;
- Sustainable land-use in the river basins;
- Soil compaction and its management for sustainable crop production;
- Watershed planning and management;
- Floodplain and river restoration;
- Climate change impacts, adaption, and mitigation measures;
- River engineering and river basin development;
- Hazards resulting from hydrological extremes (flood/drought) and risk management;
- Surface and groundwater quality assessment;
- Soil and water pollution caused by the excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers, industrial chemical discharge, and the poor management of solid waste.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Bucur
Dr. Lilian Niacșu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- land degradation
- water quality
- pollution
- conservation practices
- monitoring and modelling applications and risk assessment
