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ITS3.16/HS12.8 | Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate impact of land use change on water resources
EDI
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate impact of land use change on water resources
Convener: Herlin Chien | Co-conveners: Maddalena Pennisi, Maria Adamo, Philippe Le Coent
Land uses and land covers are among the key environmental factors that influence water cycles. Land use management and dynamics over the last decades have had dramatic impacts on water resources through: urbanization leading to the artificialization of water cycles in urban areas and the spatial concentration of water demand for drinking water, development of intensive agriculture leading to the pollution of surface and groundwater and the explosion of water demand for irrigation, abandonment of agriculture and animal farming and natural deforestation and mountainous areas leading to the disturbance of water systems, hazard risks arising from changes in runoff dynamics. In order to adapt territories to on-going global change, land use strategies leading to a sustainable management of water resources need to be designed. Supporting decision makers in the design of these strategies requires the use of interdisciplinary approaches for the mapping and monitoring of land use dynamics, the understanding of relationships between land use dynamics and water resources and the analysis of economic and social impact on the society. This session proposes to present scientific contributions on different disciplinary approaches of these questions, including through the use of state of the art and new technologies such as citizen science, as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions bridging over multiple disciplines to support the design of sustainable land management strategies.