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Climate Change, Land Use Change and Water Resources

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 14192

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sangam Shrestha

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Water Engineering and Management Program, Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
Interests: hydrology and water resources; climate change and adaptation in water; integrated water resources management; groundwater development and management
Dr. Huu Loc Ho

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Water Engineering and Management Program, Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
Interests: hydrological ecosystem services; nature-based solutions; ecosystem-based adaptations; modeling; GIS
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Dr. Mohana Sundaram Shanmugam

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Water Engineering and Management Program, Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
Interests: irrigation water management; unsaturated zone hydrology; fate and transport modelling of contaminants; crop modelling; climate change impacts and adaptation strategies; remote sensing and GIS applications in water resources and agriculture
Dr. Parmeshwar D. Udmale

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Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India
Interests: agriculture; droughts and water scarcity; water–energy–food–climate nexus; disaster risk and resilience research in the rural livelihood context; food security and supply chains—present and future; SDGs in the context of rural areas

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Earth’s water resources are constantly under threat from multiple factors, both natural and anthropogenic. Regarding the former, as several potable water resources come from precipitation, changes in climate have multiple impacts on water resources, i.e., reduced availability and accessibility to humans and increased frequencies of disasters, such as floods and droughts. Regarding the latter, changes to land covers caused by multiple livelihood- and economic-development-related activities have had various negative consequences on water resources. These factors do not only contribute to worsening natural disasters, i.e., floods and droughts, but also have their own signatures, i.e., contamination of water resources or loss of biodiversity.

This Special Issue on "Climate Change, Land Use Change and Water Resources" is dedicated to contributing to the fast-growing body of scientific literature reporting the multiple impacts of the anthropogenic and climatic footprints on water resources. The editors cordially invite high-quality studies presenting novel evidence related to the impacts on water resources resulting from alterations to land use/land covers, related to either human activities or natural processes, and climatic conditions. We welcome different types of articles, including original research articles, case studies, and systematic literature reviews, to our Special Issue under the conditions of high scientific quality, verified originality, and substantial relevance. We are particularly interested in those studies that can cut across multiple disciplines, such as human vs. physical geography, or ecohydrology vs. anthropology. Studies consisting of field-based physical and social surveys, geospatial analyses, or numerical modeling are all welcomed. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Assessment of climate change impacts on water resources at different scales;
  • Adaptation to climate change on water resources;
  • Implications of land use, land cover changes on river systems;
  • Applying an ecosystem service approach to hydrological systems;
  • Water–energy–food and climate nexus;
  • Contamination of water resources due to land use, land cover changes.

Prof. Dr. Sangam Shrestha
Dr. Ho Huu Loc
Dr. Mohana Sundaram Shanmugam
Dr. Parmeshwar D. Udmale
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • climate change
  • land cover change
  • water resources
  • water–energy–food nexus

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A Worrying Future for River Flows in the Brazilian Cerrado Provoked by Land Use and Climate Changes
by Yuri Botelho Salmona, Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi, David Lewis Skole, João Flávio Andrade Silva, Osmar de Araújo Coelho Filho, Marcos Antonio Pedlowski, James Matos Sampaio, Leidi Cahola Ramírez Castrillón, Reuber Albuquerque Brandão, Andréa Leme da Silva and Saulo Aires de Souza
Sustainability 2023, 15(5), 4251; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15054251 - 27 Feb 2023
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In this study, we assessed the impacts of land use and climate changes on the river flows of 81 watersheds within the Cerrado biome, Brazil, based on a comprehensive analysis of field and secondary data acquired between 1985 and 2018. Complementarily, we projected [...] Read more.
In this study, we assessed the impacts of land use and climate changes on the river flows of 81 watersheds within the Cerrado biome, Brazil, based on a comprehensive analysis of field and secondary data acquired between 1985 and 2018. Complementarily, we projected a future deforestation and climate scenario up to 2050 and predicted their impacts on surface water in the study area. We observed that direct impacts by large-scale deforestation oriented to the production of irrigated agricultural commodities have more significantly impacted river flows than climate changes. We estimated an average decrease of 8.7% and 6.7% in the streamflow due to deforestation and climate changes, respectively. Most of the observed changes (56.7%) were due to land use and land cover changes and occurred in recent decades. Climate and land use and land cover changes combined were responsible for a total surface water reduction of −19,718 m³/s within the Cerrado watersheds. By assuming the current deforestation rates, we predicted a total water reduction of 23,653 m³/s by 2050, equivalent to a decrease of 33.9% of the river flows in the study region. It will cause severe streamflow discontinuity in many rivers and strongly affect agricultural, electric power production, biodiversity, and water supply, especially during dry seasons in that region. Full article
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Effects of Different Land Use Types on Soil Surface Temperature in the Heihe River Basin
by Guanghui Yuan, Yu Zhang, Erchen Li and Yubao Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3859; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15043859 - 20 Feb 2023
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The micrometeorological elements, radiation budget, and surface energy distribution at four sites with land cover types of vegetable, orchard, maize, and desert in the Heihe River basin (HRB) from June 2012 to September 2012 are compared to investigate the differences in the land–atmosphere [...] Read more.
The micrometeorological elements, radiation budget, and surface energy distribution at four sites with land cover types of vegetable, orchard, maize, and desert in the Heihe River basin (HRB) from June 2012 to September 2012 are compared to investigate the differences in the land–atmosphere interaction between different surface types and the biophysical effects of land use and land cover change on surface temperature. The desert site has the highest soil surface temperature during both daytime and nighttime. The strongest cooling effects of maize, orchard, and vegetable are −20.43, −19.35, and −16.42 K, respectively, during daytime, and the average cooling effects are −1.38, −2.52, and −0.93 K, respectively, at nighttime. The differences in the surface cooling effects of the non-desert sites relative to the desert are attributed to the differences in albedo and incoming shortwave radiation, emissivity and incoming longwave radiation, sensible heat flux, latent heat flux, and soil surface heat flux, according to the direct decomposed temperature metric theory. The radiation terms have negative feedbacks on the cooling effects in the non-desert sites. Latent heat flux plays a key role in the differences in the surface temperature among the four sites during both daytime and nighttime, and the soil surface heat flux is also a main factor at night. Full article
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Response of Water Yield to Future Climate Change Based on InVEST and CMIP6—A Case Study of the Chaohu Lake Basin
by Ting Zhang, Qian Gao, Huaming Xie, Qianjiao Wu, Yuwen Yu, Chukun Zhou, Zixian Chen and Hanqing Hu
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14080; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su142114080 - 28 Oct 2022
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The Chaohu Lake Basin (CLB) is the main flow area of the Yangtze River–Huaihe River Water Transfer Project in Central China. It is important to quantitatively evaluate the water resources in the CLB and predict their response to future climate change. This study [...] Read more.
The Chaohu Lake Basin (CLB) is the main flow area of the Yangtze River–Huaihe River Water Transfer Project in Central China. It is important to quantitatively evaluate the water resources in the CLB and predict their response to future climate change. This study simulated and calibrated the water yield in the CLB from 2000 to 2019 based on InVEST. We also analyzed the influence factor on the water yield and predicted the water yield in future years with CMIP6 data. The results demonstrate that: (1) The InVEST water production module had good applicability in this study region. There was a strong linear relationship between the simulated water yield and the observed surface runoff (y = 1.2363x − 8.6038, R2 = 0.868, p < 0.01); (2) The explanatory percentage of interaction between precipitation and land use/land cover for water yield in 2001, 2008, and 2016 reached 71%, 77%, and 85%, respectively, which were the two dominant factors affecting water yield in the CLB; and (3) The average annual water yield in the CLB increased under the SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 future scenarios with increasing precipitation, increased with 71%, 139.8%, and 159.5% in 2100 compared with 2040, respectively. The overall trend of water production decreased with increases in carbon emission intensity. Full article
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Land Use Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on Surface Air Temperature in Myanmar and Thailand
by Khun La Yaung, Amnat Chidthaisong, Atsamon Limsakul, Pariwate Varnakovida and Can Trong Nguyen
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 10942; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su131910942 - 01 Oct 2021
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Land use land cover (LULC) change is one of the main drivers contributing to global climate change. It alters surface hydrology and energy balance between the land surface and atmosphere. However, its impacts on surface air temperature have not been well understood in [...] Read more.
Land use land cover (LULC) change is one of the main drivers contributing to global climate change. It alters surface hydrology and energy balance between the land surface and atmosphere. However, its impacts on surface air temperature have not been well understood in a dynamic region of LULC changes like Southeast Asia (SEA). This study quantitatively examined the contribution of LULC changes to temperature trends in Myanmar and Thailand as the typical parts of SEA during 1990–2019 using the “observation minus reanalysis” (OMR) method. Overall, the average maximum, mean, and minimum temperatures obtained from OMR trends indicate significant warming trends of 0.17 °C/10a, 0.20 °C/10a, and 0.42 °C/10a, respectively. The rates of minimum temperature increase were larger than maximum and mean temperatures. The decreases of forest land and cropland, and the expansions of settlements land fractions were strongly correlated with the observed warming trends. It was found that the effects of forest land converted to settlement land on warming were higher than forest conversion to cropland. A comprehensive discussion on this study could provide scientific information for the future development of more sustainable land use planning to mitigate and adapt to climate change at the local and national levels. Full article
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