Impact of Climate and Socio-Economics on Irrigation Water Management and Agricultural Water Productivity: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 1039
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water resources management; water resources sustainability, resilience, and adaptive capacity; climate change variability
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Interests: land surface evapotranspiration; agricultural water uses; hydrological modeling; crop system modeling; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Improvement of agricultural water productivity aims at producing more food, more income, better livelihoods, and better ecosystem services that use less water. Increasing agricultural water productivity is particularly imperative where water is scarce compared with other resources involved in production. It is thus critical to understand the agriculture and ecosystem responses to growing climate and socio-economic change to sustain their stability. Globally, irrigated agriculture is the biggest consumer of water, accounting for 70% of total water use. Irrigation water management naturally becomes a worldwide concern for agricultural production and livelihood security when there are limited water resources. Therefore, how to improve agricultural water use efficiency or agricultural water productivity and further effectively manage irrigation water resources is a key challenge to ensure water–food security and promote sustainable development of agriculture.
To this end, this Special Issue seeks to publish related research papers on the topics of (1) impacts of climate and socio-economic change, including increasing temperature, extreme weather conditions, floods, regional conflicts, etc., and human activities, including irrigation management, cropping patterns, water saving measures, etc., on the agricultural system; and (2) management and approach assessments to help improve the sustainability of the agricultural and hydrological system under the challenging environment. Papers based on experimental observations and modelling simulations are both welcomed and encouraged.
Dr. Chenglong Zhang
Dr. Xiaojie Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- irrigation water supply
- irrigation water demand
- irrigation water management
- agricultural water productivity
- crop water consumption
- irrigation water prediction and simulation
- climate change
- socio-economic conditions
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