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Landscape Regeneration and the Role of Water

Part of the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals book series (ENUNSDG)

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Baseflow:

It is the flow maintained in streams and rivers between storms and runoff events, by subsurface seepage and groundwater.

Catchment:

It refers to the area of land from which water flows into a river.

Forest:

It is an area dominated by trees and other plants.

Grassland:

It is an area in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, often used for grazing or pasture.

Infiltration:

It is the process by which water on the ground surface percolates into the soil.

Landscape:

It is a complex of relationship systems (natural and human), together forming a recognizable part of the earth’s surface.

Rehabilitation:

It refers to a planned process that aims to regain the ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in degraded landscapes. Regeneration may not be to the original state of the land but to an altered state that serves a particular human purpose.

Restoration:

It refers to rewilding of ecosystems and landscapes so that vegetation and...

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    Matthew McCartney & Chris Dickens

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McCartney, M., Dickens, C. (2020). Landscape Regeneration and the Role of Water. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_139-1

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