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Maintaining Landscape Functionality Under Land Use Change

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Peri-urban growth can affect local flood and drought risks, which are exacerbated by climate change. Research into optimal planning and arrangement of landscape functions is needed to manage local flood and drought risks. As a first step, simple hydrological models are required to study the range of feedbacks and interactions within the peri-urban areas. A demonstration, using a simple modeling example, indicates how including buffer zones will reduce local flooding and how such models can be used for virtual experiments. Further development of such simple tools into spatial and agent based models will support new field studies and policy development for peri-urban areas.

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  1. Hydrology and Geo-Information Sciences Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    R. W. Vervoort

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  1. School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

    Basant Maheshwari

  2. Colleges of Technology and Agricultural Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Technology and Agriculture, Udaipur, India

    Ramesh Purohit

  3. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Hector Malano

  4. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

  5. International Water Management Institute, Hyderabad Office, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Priyanie Amerasinghe

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Vervoort, R.W. (2014). Maintaining Landscape Functionality Under Land Use Change. In: Maheshwari, B., Purohit, R., Malano, H., Singh, V., Amerasinghe, P. (eds) The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8878-6_30

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