Remote sensing, modelling-based hazard and risk assessment, and management of agro-forested ecosystems

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Rizzi, J., Tarquis, A. M., Gobin, A., Semenov, M. A., Zhao, W and Tarolli, P. 2021. Remote sensing, modelling-based hazard and risk assessment, and management of agro-forested ecosystems. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 21 (12), p. 3873–3877. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3873-2021

AuthorsRizzi, J., Tarquis, A. M., Gobin, A., Semenov, M. A., Zhao, W and Tarolli, P.
Abstract

Agricultural and forested landscapes cover large areas over many countries; they are a very important natural resource that needs to be managed sustainably for both the environment and the local communities. Food security, population growth, urbanization, and intensive agricultural development are some of the factors that generate increasing demands for water and land resources in the context of global change. Therefore, potential impacts deriving from a changing climate, from more frequent and intense extreme events, and from anthropogenic activities can pose serious threats to economic infrastructure and development in the coming decades and also severely undermine food, fodder, water, and energy security for a growing global population. Significant recent changes in climate and in the hydrological cycle will impact land suitability for agricultural production and forest ecosystems. In particular, we can expect an increase, in some regions, in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and weather-related events such as heat waves, floods, wind and snowstorms, droughts, etc. (IPCC, 2012; IPCC, 2021). Furthermore, anthropogenic activities can exacerbate consequences of an unbalanced environment, such as water quality degradation, groundwater depletion, land subsidence, erosion, and sedimentation (Delkash et al., 2018; Tarolli and Straffellini, 2020). Therefore, sustainable management and exploitation of first-order agricultural resources and forested areas, e.g. available land with favourable climate, soil, and water, will become even more important in the lives and activities of people. The 10 original papers included in this special issue address several of these aspects. In particular one review paper provides a general introduction to risk assessment for natural hazards, six papers focus on water- and weather-related hazards (four related to agriculture and two related to water quality at river basin scale), two papers address hazard assessment for the insurance sector, and one paper is related to challenges in agriculture–forest frontiers. The presented researches adopt different types of quantitative and qualitative modelling and spatial analysis and use remote sensing data, when relevant.

Year of Publication2021
JournalNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Journal citation21 (12), p. 3873–3877
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3873-2021
Open accessPublished as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
FunderBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Funder project or codeDesigning Future Wheat - WP1 - Increased efficiency and sustainability
Publisher's version
Output statusPublished
Publication dates
Online23 Dec 2021
PublisherEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU)

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