Irrigation Technology and Water Management in Agriculture: Toward a Sustainable Future
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 April 2024) | Viewed by 1897
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydraulic properties of porous mediums; soil-water equations; algebraic; numerical and graphical solutions; infiltration; drainage; simulation and prediction models; water quality and toxicity; applications in irrigation; water saving; rational and sustainable water management
Interests: soil physics; plant soil–water interaction; flow and transport in soils; horticultural substrates; vadose zone hydrology; water resource management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture is heavily reliant on water, requiring rational irrigation management to ensure quantity, quality, and high levels of yield within a sustainable agricultural ecosystem. Irrigation water management with the aid of innovative and sustainable applications is now more urgent than ever. Over the last years, the climate crisis has constantly interacted with the soil–water complex, affecting the hydrodynamics of water motion. As the situation in several areas of the world reaches crisis levels, water demands have begun to exceed the available reserves. Understanding the natural water–soil complex is challenging, but it can lead to future sustainable irrigation water use.
The main scope of this Special Issue is to highlight the need for rational water management through research on related topics, such as aquifer recharge, groundwater levels, water quality, runoff, evapotranspiration, the infiltration rate, and soil physicochemical and hydraulic properties, etc. All the above are in direct interaction with the soil–water movement and have great impact on the irrigation dose, irrigation frequency, intensity etc., and therefore irrigation network design and water management. Improvements in agricultural water management and efficiency in water use can contribute to a sustainable future.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Irrigation planning
- Irrigation water management
- Deficit irrigation
- Evapotranspiration
- Modeling of soil water movement
- Soil hydraulic properties
- Wastewater reuse
- Remote sensing
- Artificial intelligence in agriculture
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Anastasia Angelaki
Dr. Paraskevi Londra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable irrigation
- rational water management
- irrigation planning
- soil hydraulic properties
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