Sustainable Use of Soils and Water: The Role of Environmental Land Use Conflicts

• Main Author: Pacheco, Fernando A.L (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Environmental economics; environmental and economic changes; overexploitation; stream flow downscaling; Recharge; Institutions; evaluation; geo hazards; marginal land resources; water resources; contributions; land use change; comprehensive land carrying capacity; land eco-security; scale effects; river basin; Ghana; urbanization; groundwater recharge; MicroLEIS DSS; multiple stresses; forest; land use conflicts; soil; analytic hierarchy process; heavy metal pollution assessment; recharge; environmental degradation; spatial variation; debris flow waste-shoal land; Lankao county; encounters of interests; territorial development; driving forces analysis; land use policy; climate conditions; time series analysis; arable soil; urban area; multi-criterion comprehensive evaluation; Land Use; agricultural and livestock products; evapotranspiration; hydrological processes; Trnava district; macromodel DNS/SWAT; central Asia; CA-Markov; integrative landscape management; Land use change; land use and transformation; weight; Contemporary Yellow River Delta; conjunctive water resources management; set pair theory; sustainability; karst aquifer; withdrawal of agricultural land; sustainable development; SWAT; water resource management; water footprint; land-use planning; Ecosystem service value; Penman-Monteith equation; cloud model; groundwater flow field; standard deviation; temporal stability; landscape as geosystem; Gross Domestic Product; geology; territorial factors; agriculture; multi-dimension; Groundwater; conflicts; Green GDP; temporal-spatial variations; relief; recharge zones; groundwater depth; Nitrate Vulnerable Zones; hydrologic modeling; Managed Aquifer; soil reclamation; nitrogen; discrete wavelet transform; legislative factors; developmental factors; ungauged catchment; rural households' behaviors; arid region; land use/cover change; spatialization; sustainable agriculture
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This book on the sustainable use of soils and water addressed a variety of issues related to the utopian desire for environmental sustainability and the deviations from this scene observed in the real world. Competing interests for land are frequently a factor in land degradation, especially where t...