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"This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia. Changes is drylands is happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as 'wastelands' and their 'backward' inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security and conservation informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland's point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development and drylands in general"--

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This book focuses on the tools and methods used for tackling the complexity of the different hydrological and hydrogeological set-ups, the hydrodynamic patterns, the site specifications, and the wide variability of internal and external factors and/or processes on the catchment-scale level that impose the need for combined integrated approaches of robust methods. This Special Issue aims to provide successful applications or new insights on the stand-alone or joint considerations of groundwater resources assessment and characterization methods and explore new state-of-the-art methodological concepts in light of a rapidly changing environment.

drought --- precipitation --- SPI --- groundwater salinization --- karst --- seawater intrusion --- Soil and Water Assessment Tool --- SEAWAT model --- irrigation management --- groundwater --- climate change --- sea level rise --- nitrate --- leachate --- modelling --- validation --- state scale --- integrated water resources management --- coastal agricultural basin --- groundwater nitrate pollution --- hydrochemistry --- hydrodynamics --- environmental isotopes --- Tirnavos basin --- groundwater recharge --- groundwater sustainability --- hydrology models --- Modder River --- sustainability index --- GALDIT --- monthly vulnerability --- seawater intrusion (SWI) --- vulnerability assessment --- effective weight --- densely populated area --- freshwater–saltwater interactions --- multilayer coastal aquifer --- hydro-geochemistry --- Tevere River delta --- Ostia Antica archaeological park --- drinking and irrigation water scarcity --- groundwater potential mapping --- machine learning --- remote sensing --- GIS --- karstic mountainous aquifers --- Morocco --- hydrogeological properties --- natural groundwater fluctuations --- semi-arid zones --- depleting groundwater resources --- Guadalupe Valley Aquifer --- chromium --- ultramafic rocks --- springs --- water–rock interaction --- natural background levels --- aquifer --- intrinsic vulnerability --- RIVA method --- index-overlay method --- n/a --- freshwater-saltwater interactions --- water-rock interaction