Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Watersheds in a Changing Climate
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type: - text
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- Research and information: general
- afforestation
- anthropogenic catchment
- Brazilian Forest Code
- changes in hydrological components
- climate change
- Conservative Use Potential
- covariance
- distance from pollution sources
- diurnal thermal profile
- effects of human activities
- environmental Law
- farmland abandonment
- flood vulnerability
- flow
- geographic information system
- groundwater recharge
- interaction term
- Italian Apennines
- lakes
- land use
- Land Use and Land Cover changes
- land use conflicts
- land use policy
- Landsat
- landscape composition
- landscape metrics
- LUCC
- LULC changes
- mean diurnal profile
- n/a
- Nenjiang watershed
- payments for environmental services
- PLS-SEM
- regression model
- reservoirs
- riparian buffer width
- riparian forest
- river basin
- river morphology dynamics
- runoff/suspended sediment changes
- scale
- script files
- season
- soil conservation
- spatial multi-criteria analysis
- SWAT
- urban tributaries
- water balance
- water balance components
- water discharge ecosystem services
- water management
- water pollution
- water quality
- water resources management
- watershed management
- wavelet
- wavelet coherence
- wildfires
- WRUBAP
- Yiluo River
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The immediate goal of this Special Issue was the characterization of land uses and occupations (LULC) in watersheds and the assessment of impacts caused by anthropogenic activities. The goal was immediate because the ultimate purpose was to help bring disturbed watersheds to a better condition or a utopian sustainable status. The steps followed to attain this objective included publishing studies on the understanding of factors and variables that control hydrology and water quality changes in response to human activities. Following this first step, the Special Issue selected work that described adaption measures capable of improving the watershed condition (water availability and quality), namely LULC conversions (e.g., monocultures into agro-forestry systems). Concerning the LULC measures, however, efficacy was questioned unless supported by public programs that force consumers to participate in concomitant costs, because conversions may be viewed as an environmental service.
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