Impacts of Landscape Change on Water Resources

• Other Authors: Jha, Manoj K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; LID practices; watershed scale; impervious area; peak flow; surface runoff; shallow subsurface runoff and infiltration; evapotranspiration; stream temperature; SWAT; Marys River watershed; soil temperature; solar energy; watershed model; landscape scale; VELMA; bank erosion; landscape metrics; diversity; Sajó River; UAV; spatial configuration units; best management practices (BMPs); spatial optimization; hydrologic response units (HRUs); hydrologically connected fields; slope positions; watershed process simulation; DMMF; landscape configuration; landscape ecology; hydrology; scaling-up conservation agriculture; drip irrigation; groundwater potential; sustainable intensification; Ethiopia; flood analysis; hydrologic modeling; hydrodynamic modeling; HEC-RAS; flood zone delineation; landscape change; water resources analysis; water modeling; impact assessment
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Changes in land use and land cover can have many drivers, including population growth, urbanization, agriculture, demand for food, evolution of socio-economic structure, policy regulations, and climate variability. The impacts of these changes on water resources range from changes in water availabil...