Hydrological Impacts of Land Use/Land Cover Changes

Dear Colleagues,

Recent changes in land use, climate, human population growth, and development have led to challenges in meeting water supply needs because elevated water demand is occurring exponentially. Thus, understanding the hydrologic effects of land cover, climate, and land use changes is an urgent challenge for both hydrologists and decision-makers. Linking this with the recent calls in the hydrologic science community for considering humans as intrinsic to the hydrologic system then reinforces the need for more research on the impacts of land use/land cover and climate changes on the water cycle distribution.

The goal of this Special Issue is to compile contributions (novel research, review articles, and field studies) that use various datasets (remote sensing, social surveys, time series observations, and climate data) in multidisciplinary studies that aim to showcase innovation for enhanced strategies and lessons learnt, especially when addressing complex issues often experienced in transboundary water system land use/land cover and climate change for strategic planning. This Special Issue is thought to foster cross-disciplinary engagements spanning physical and social sciences developing transformative research and education initiatives that can assist in mitigating complex and sensitive transboundary river system land use/land cover and climate challenges.

Integrated studies approach exploring human population growth, land use/land cover changes, and coping with future climate uncertainty through the lens of a social–ecological system are welcome.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Framework studies combining physical and social analyses to examine sustainable water resource management under climate change considering human growth and land use changes.
• Innovative approaches leveraging global earth observations from space to improve regional efforts that assess natural resources for conservation and sustainable water management.
• Watershed and/or basin scale ecological impacts on water quantity and/or quality from human activities.
• Field studies intended to examine plant area index, canopy conductance, interception and evapotranspiration and their sensitivities to climate and land cover changes.

Dr. Ibrahim Nourein Mohammed
Guest Editor

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• land cover/land use change
• water demand
• human growth
• climate change
• evapotranspiration