Impacts of land use and land cover changes on water resources management and water-related ecosystem services

 Dear colleagues,

Apologies for any cross posting and for the reminder. We would like to invite you to submit your abstracts to the following EGU General Assembly 2022 session. Please note that the session will take place in person in Vienna.

Title: Impacts of land use and land cover changes on water resources management and water-related ecosystem services

Link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43298

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. dr. Wouter Buytaert (Imperial College London)

Session description

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are one of the main drivers of changes to hydrological processes, altering the ecosystem dynamics and impacting the production of water-related ecosystem services (e.g. water provision, flood regulation) with different levels of societal impact.

LULC changes can be determined by anthropogenic and/or natural drivers and can affect many hydrological processes, including rainfall interception, evapotranspiration, moisture recycling, runoff generation, erosion, groundwater recharge, pollution and alteration of surface and groundwater quality. Such effects may in turn affect water-related ecosystem services and have an impact on the possible water-land nexus scenarios which should be understood, to inform effective and equitable water resources management.

This session therefore welcomes studies exploring different aspects of the water-land nexus, including, but not limited to:

• Advances in the quantification of hydrological impacts of LULC changes through modelling and experimental data, including water quantity and quality

• Disentanglement of LULC change impacts on all water resources management (blue, green, atmospheric) and water-related ecosystem services

• Assessments on the impact and extent of multi-level policies that drive LULC changes, as well as studies at the science-policy interface on the water-land nexus

• Advances in (interdisciplinary) methodologies for identifying water-related ecosystem services (WES), as well as studies highlighting spatial assessments of WES

The abstract submission is due by 12 January 2022 at 13:00 CET. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! 

Kind regards,

Giulio Castelli, University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)

Tommaso Pacetti, University of Florence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sofie te Wierik, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, (ELD, TCE)