This book on the sustainable use of soils and water addressed a variety of issues related to the utopian desire for environmental sustainability and the deviations from this scene observed in the real world. Competing interests for land are frequently a factor in land degradation, especially where the adopted land uses do not conform with the land capability (the natural use of soil). The concerns of researchers about these matters are presented in the articles comprising this Special Issue book. Various approaches were used to assess the (im)balance between economic profit and environmental conservation in various regions, in addition to potential routes to bring landscapes back to a sustainable status being disclosed.
Fernando A.L. Pacheco
land eco-security multi-dimension cloud model set pair theory evaluation sustainable development water resources Contemporary Yellow River Delta groundwater depth temporal stability debris flow waste-shoal land land use and transformation driving forces analysis territorial development marginal land resources