This book on the sustainable use of soils and water addressed a variety of issues related to the utopian desire for environmental sustainability and the deviations from this scene observed in the real world. Competing interests for land are frequently a factor in land degradation, especially where the adopted land uses do not conform with the land capability (the natural use of soil). The concerns of researchers about these matters are presented in the articles comprising this Special Issue book. Various approaches were used to assess the (im)balance between economic profit and environmental conservation in various regions, in addition to potential routes to bring landscapes back to a sustainable status being disclosed.
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environmental and economic changes overexploitation stream flow downscaling Recharge Institutions evaluation geo hazards marginal land resources water resources contributions land use change comprehensive land carrying capacity land eco-security scale effects river basin Ghana urbanization groundwater recharge MicroLEIS DSS multiple stresses forest land use conflicts soil analytic hierarchy process heavy metal pollution assessment recharge environmental degradation spatial variation debris flow waste-shoal land Lankao county encounters of interests territorial development driving forces analysis land use policy climate conditions time series analysis arable soil urban area multi-criterion comprehensive evaluation Land Use agricultural and livestock products evapotranspiration hydrological processes Trnava district macromodel DNS/SWAT central Asia CA-Markov integrative landscape management Land use change land use and transformation weight Contemporary Yellow River Delta conjunctive water resources management set pair theory sustainability karst aquifer withdrawal of agricultural land sustainable development SWAT water resource management water footprint land-use planning Ecosystem service value Penman–Monteith equation cloud model groundwater flow field standard deviation temporal stability landscape as geosystem Gross Domestic Product geology territorial factors agriculture multi-dimension Groundwater conflicts Green GDP temporal-spatial variations relief recharge zones groundwater depth Nitrate Vulnerable Zones hydrologic modeling Managed Aquifer soil reclamation nitrogen discrete wavelet transform legislative factors developmental factors ungauged catchment rural households’ behaviors arid region land use/cover change spatialization sustainable agriculture