Water and Land Security in Drylands

Response to Climate Change

Mohamed Ouessar, Donald Gabriels, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Steven Evett

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319540207
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319540214
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change. As water and land are the essential bases of food production, the management of these natural resources is becoming a cornerstone for the development of dryland populations. The book gathers the peer-reviewed, revised versions of the most outstanding papers on these topics presented at the ILDAC2015 Conference in Djerba, Tunisia.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• ILDAC2015 Proceedings Ouessar et al. (editors)
• About the Book
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 A Study of Water Stress on Olive Growing Under the Effect of Climate Change in South East of Tunisia
• 2 Climate Change Impacts in the Maghreb Region: Status and Prospects of the Water Resources
• 3 Effect of High Temperature Stress on Wheat and Barley Production in Northern Tunisia
• 4 Study of Managed Aquifer Recharge and Climate Change, Using a Numerical Model: The Figuig Aquifer (Eastern High Atlas, Morocco)
• 5 Calibration of AquaCrop Salinity Stress Parameters for Barley Under Different Irrigation Regimes in a Dry Environment
• 6 Groundwater Recharge of the Kairouan Plain Aquifer: Evidence of Preferential Flow Paths Through the El Haouareb Limestones?
• 7 Evapotranspiration of Wheat in a Hilly Topography: Results from Measurements Using a Set of Eddy Covariance Stations
• 8 Performance of Saxton and Rawls Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating Soil Water Properties in the Cap Bon Region-Northern Tunisia
• 9 Assessing the Groundwater Pollution Problem by Nitrate and Faecal Bacteria: Case of Djerba Unconfined Aquifer (Southeast Tunisia)
• 10 Monitoring Soil Moisture Content of Jessour in the Watershed of Wadi Jir (Matmata, Southeast Tunisia)
• 11 Direct and Residual Effect of Sewage Sludge in a Sudangrass-Barley Cropping System
• 12 Aflaj’ Water Management in Oman: The Case of Falaj Al-Khatmeen in Birkat Al-Mouz, Wilayat Nizwa
• 13 Response of Vegetable Crops to Irrigation Regimes Using Saline Waters
• 14 Fog Collection and Participatory Approach for Water Management and Local Development: Practical Reflections from Case Studies in the Atacama Drylands
• 15 Salt and Water Dynamic of Potato Crop Under Irrigation with Low Quality Waters
• 16 Development of Methodology for Existing Rainwater Harvesting Assessment in (semi-)Arid Regions
• 17 Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Erosive Behavior of Nebhana Watershed Tunisia
• 18 Short-Term Effects of Olive Mill Wastewater Spreading on Chemical Properties of Soils in Arid Lands, Study Case from Southern Tunisia
• 19 Spatio-Temporal Evolution of the Fragmentation Classes of the Mikea Dry Deciduous Forest (Southwestern Madagascar)
• 20 The Impact of Atmospheric Pollution on the Chemical Composition of Soil Around Gabes Cement Plant Southeastern Tunisia
• 21 Contribution of Hyperspectral Images (Hyperion) and Spectroscopy for Mapping Soil’s Surface and Materials (Case of the Watershed of Oued Beni Zalten, the New Matmata, Tunisia)
• 22 Use of Remote Sensing and GIS for Land Degradation Assessment of Qarun Lake Coastal Area, El-Fayoum, Egypt
• 23 Classification Methods for Detecting and Evaluating Changes in Desertification-Related Features in Arid and Semi-arid Environments
• 24 Evaluation and Validation of SRTMGL1 and ASTER GDEM2 for Two Maghreb Regions (Biskra, Algeria and Medenine, Tunisia)
• 25 An Integrated Cost–Benefit and Livelihood Approach for Assessing the Impact of Water Harvesting Techniques (WHTs) on Livelihoods: A Case Study in the Oum Zessar Watershed, South-East Tunisia
• 26 Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Sustainable Development at the Regional Level: A Case Study in Medenine, South-East Tunisia
• 27 How Investment in RD&E Offset the Negative Impact of Climate Change on the Tunisian Agricultural Productivity Sector
• Conclusions and Recommendations