Water and Land Security in Drylands: Response to Climate Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
A Study of Water Stress on Olive Growing Under the Effect of Climate Change in South East of Tunisia....Pages 1-16
Climate Change Impacts in the Maghreb Region: Status and Prospects of the Water Resources....Pages 17-25
Effect of High Temperature Stress on Wheat and Barley Production in Northern Tunisia....Pages 27-34
Study of Managed Aquifer Recharge and Climate Change, Using a Numerical Model: The Figuig Aquifer (Eastern High Atlas, Morocco)....Pages 35-42
Calibration of AquaCrop Salinity Stress Parameters for Barley Under Different Irrigation Regimes in a Dry Environment....Pages 43-55
Groundwater Recharge of the Kairouan Plain Aquifer: Evidence of Preferential Flow Paths Through the El Haouareb Limestones?....Pages 57-65
Evapotranspiration of Wheat in a Hilly Topography: Results from Measurements Using a Set of Eddy Covariance Stations....Pages 67-76
Performance of Saxton and Rawls Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating Soil Water Properties in the Cap Bon Region-Northern Tunisia....Pages 77-85
Assessing the Groundwater Pollution Problem by Nitrate and Faecal Bacteria: Case of Djerba Unconfined Aquifer (Southeast Tunisia)....Pages 87-96
Monitoring Soil Moisture Content of Jessour in the Watershed of Wadi Jir (Matmata, Southeast Tunisia)....Pages 97-110
Direct and Residual Effect of Sewage Sludge in a Sudangrass-Barley Cropping System....Pages 111-117
Response of Vegetable Crops to Irrigation Regimes Using Saline Waters....Pages 119-128
Fog Collection and Participatory Approach for Water Management and Local Development: Practical Reflections from Case Studies in the Atacama Drylands....Pages 129-139
Salt and Water Dynamic of Potato Crop Under Irrigation with Low Quality Waters....Pages 141-158
Development of Methodology for Existing Rainwater Harvesting Assessment in (semi-)Arid Regions....Pages 159-169
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Erosive Behavior of Nebhana Watershed Tunisia....Pages 171-184
Short-Term Effects of Olive Mill Wastewater Spreading on Chemical Properties of Soils in Arid Lands, Study Case from Southern Tunisia....Pages 185-195
Spatio-Temporal Evolution of the Fragmentation Classes of the Mikea Dry Deciduous Forest (Southwestern Madagascar)....Pages 197-208
The Impact of Atmospheric Pollution on the Chemical Composition of Soil Around Gabes Cement Plant Southeastern Tunisia....Pages 209-219
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)....Pages 221-234
Use of Remote Sensing and GIS for Land Degradation Assessment of Qarun Lake Coastal Area, El-Fayoum, Egypt....Pages 235-249
Classification Methods for Detecting and Evaluating Changes in Desertification-Related Features in Arid and Semi-arid Environments....Pages 251-267
Evaluation and Validation of SRTMGL1 and ASTER GDEM2 for Two Maghreb Regions (Biskra, Algeria and Medenine, Tunisia)....Pages 269-289
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....Pages 291-301
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Sustainable Development at the Regional Level: A Case Study in Medenine, South-East Tunisia....Pages 303-316
How Investment in RD&E Offset the Negative Impact of Climate Change on the Tunisian Agricultural Productivity Sector....Pages 317-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-346
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