Intensified Land and Water Use

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population. Studies on water, vegetation, and soil are addressed from an environmental management perspective with a special focus on the relation between natural elements and humans.

This book considers the essential dynamics of humans and the natural environment, which is especially important in areas with shallow water-table that influence directly on agricultural activities (crops, livestock, and forests), land management, flooding, droughts, waterlogging, salt-affected soils (saline and sodic) and variation in obtained water quality in wells where these processes as related to the local and regional geomorphology control. The studies present hydrological processes towards the definition of an adequate use of soil and water with consequences of its management on the environment. Also, water study procedures are presented as well as their relation to other elements of the landscape. Methodologies such as the Tóthian flow system concept are recognized by different authors to provide the reader with solid interdisciplinary analyses of related environmental components such as soils, vegetation, surface water, geomorphology, geological framework and groundwater physical-chemical composition.

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1.Preface2- Hydrological approach for evaluation of soil and water degradation processes as related to climate change and biodiversity losses Idelfonso Pla Sentís. Universitat de Lleida. Spain*3- Prediction of soil salinization and sodification processes as affected by groundwater under different climate and management conditions. *Idelfonso Pla Sentís. Universitat de Lleida. Spain
4- Landscape features as conditions for vegetation and crop growth. Physiological aspects of plants response to salinity, alkalinity and shallow water-table. Andrés A. Rodríguez and Edith Taleisnik. Laboratorio de Fisiología de Estrés Abiótico en Plantas, Unidad de Biotecnología 1, IIB-INTECH - CONICET - UNSAM, Int. Marino. Chascomús, Argentina y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Fisiología y Recursos Genéticos Vegetales, CIAP, INTA. Argentina*5- The classical fact in water insecurity: groundwater; the need to recognize the importance of its presence. J*osé Joel Carrillo Rivera. Instituto de Geografía, UNAM. México*6- Groundwater and its role in maintaining the ecological functions of ecosystems; advances in holistic approaches in studies on the interaction vegetation-groundwater flows. *Elisabet V. Wehncke, Nestor Mariano, Eric Morales-Casique, Blanca Prado, Lucy Mora, José Joel Carrillo-Rivera, Josue Reyes, Alejandra de León. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. México. Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina. Instituto de Geología and Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México*7- Groundwater flows in Bajos Submeridionales of Santa Fe wetlands as part of the Chaqueña plain (Argentina) and their use for livestock production. *Dora Cecilia Sosa y Eduardo Luis Diaz. Instituto Nacional del Agua and Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina. *8- Geochemical feature of intermediate flow discharging in Paraná river system, Argentina. D*ora CeciliThis book combines multidisciplinary studies on the consequences of intensified land and water use, and the fusion of land to provide food security. Studies on water, vegetation, and soil are addressed from an environmental management perspective with a special focus on anthropic effectsa Sosa y Eduardo Luis Diaz. Instituto Nacional del Agua y Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina. *9 - Hydrogeochemical characterization of groundwater and its interaction with other components of the environment in Mexico. *Rafael Huizar. Instituto de Geología. UNAM. México.*10- Landscape functioning as a basis for defining its sustainable intervention: soils and groundwater flows. *Margarita M Alconada Magliano. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.