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A)           HYDROLOGICAL AND LAND PROCESSES

A. 1.     Innovation modelling in watershed hydrology

A. 2.     Floods: modelling and forecasting

A. 3.     Droughts: processes, forecasting and early warning

A. 4.     Land use hydrological and environmental impacts

A. 5.     Soil processes and land degradation; monitoring and assessment

 

B)           NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION

B. 1.      Agricultural water quality management, nitrates and agrochemicals

B. 2.      Water treatment and reuse in domestic, industrial and agricultural water systems

B. 3.      Groundwater management under scarcity: water withdrawals and recharge

B. 4.      Management and operation of surface water reservoirs: tools to cope with scarcity

B. 5.      Use of saline and low quality water in irrigation: soil impacts and monitoring

B. 6.      Soil, water and landscape conservation

 

C)           INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN LAND AND WATER MANAGEMENT

C. 1.     Remote sensing and data acquisition systems

C. 2.     GIS applications

C. 3.     Decision support systems and life cycle assessment modelling

C. 4.     Expert systems and decision-making models

C. 5.     Information systems and web technologies

C. 6.     Issues for precision agriculture

 

D)           LAND USE PLANNING

D. 1.     Integrating land and water use; technical and institutional issues

D. 2.     Risk assessment in land use planning; coping with floods and droughts

D. 3.     Environmental upgrading in rainfed agriculture: soil and water conservation

D. 4.     Land use conservation issues for agricultural marginal lands

 

E)            WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

E. 1.      Approaches to integrated water management at basin scale

E. 2.      Water users participatory management

E. 3.      Irrigation systems modernisation and rehabilitation for resource conservation

E. 4.      On-farm water management: water conservation and irrigation water savings

E. 5.      Water conservation and saving in non-agricultural water uses