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Land-Use Change, Climate and Hydrology

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Any particular form of land use has direct effects on the way water is used in a particular area and thus also on the hydrology of that area. A particularly well-known example is the high water use of forest compared to grassland. Water use refers of course to the quantitative aspects, i.e., the availability of water. But increasingly so it also refers to the quality of the water: not all water is suited for the purpose intended. At present the standards for water quality as used in different regions, for instance in Europe, vary by several orders of magnitude. Although apparently water quality becomes more and more an issue in the political and practical sense, the main claim for water is still being made by agricultureagriculture, where at present the quantitative demand is still of more concern than quality. We therefore focus in this chapter primarily on the quantitative aspects of hydrology and land use and land-use change.

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  1. Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands

    E. J. Moors

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  3. National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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Moors, E.J., Dolman, A.J. (2003). Land-Use Change, Climate and Hydrology. In: Dolman, A.J., Verhagen, A., Rovers, C.A. (eds) Global Environmental Change and Land Use. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0335-2_6

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