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Mengfan Cai
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada

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Editorial
Published: 18 August 2020 in Sustainability
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Rural environmental protection has received increasing attention in recent years. The economic development and population growth of rural areas results in many problems, such as environmental pollution, land degradation, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, income loss, and public health risks. Although much progress has been made, many major challenges to rural environmental management remain to be addressed. The question of how to deal with these problems through sustainable approaches has become an urgent issue in rural areas. This Special Issue, “Rural Sustainable Environmental Management”, was dedicated to the perception of rural, sustainable environmental management based on the integration of economic, environmental, and social considerations. The Special Issue covered the topics about the rural land management and planning, sustainable rural water resources management, integrated simulation and optimization, rural environmental risk assessment and vulnerability analysis, rural water and wastewater treatment, rural environmental policy analysis, rural ecosystem protection and biodiversity recovery, and the characterization of emerging rural environmental problems and related solutions. A total of 24 high-quality papers were accepted after strict and rigorous review. These accepted papers focused on various perspectives of rural sustainable environmental management.

ACS Style

ChunJiang An; Mengfan Cai; Christophe Guy. Rural Sustainable Environmental Management. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6688 .

AMA Style

ChunJiang An, Mengfan Cai, Christophe Guy. Rural Sustainable Environmental Management. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (16):6688.

Chicago/Turabian Style

ChunJiang An; Mengfan Cai; Christophe Guy. 2020. "Rural Sustainable Environmental Management." Sustainability 12, no. 16: 6688.

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Published: 27 January 2020 in Sustainability
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Soil and water conservation practices (SWCPs) are widely used to control soil and water loss. Quantifying the effect of SWCPs and climate change on soil and water erosion is important for regional environmental management. In this study, the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) and the Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE) were employed to investigate the patterns of surface runoff and soil erosion with different SWCPs in the hilly region on the Loess Plateau of China. The impact of climate change under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 emission scenarios was considered from 2020 to 2050. Surface runoff grew with the increased rainfall and rainfall erosivity, while soil erosion presented large variations between years due to uneven distribution of rainfall and rainfall erosivity under two scenarios. Different SWCPs significantly reduced surface soil and water loss. Compared with bare slopes, the reduction rates were 15–40% for surface runoff and 35–67% for soil erosion under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 emission scenarios, respectively. The combination of shrub and horizontal terracing was recommended due to its low water cost for sediment control among seven SWCPs.

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Mengfan Cai; ChunJiang An; Christophe Guy; Chen Lu. Assessment of Soil and Water Conservation Practices in the Loess Hilly Region Using a Coupled Rainfall-Runoff-Erosion Model. Sustainability 2020, 12, 934 .

AMA Style

Mengfan Cai, ChunJiang An, Christophe Guy, Chen Lu. Assessment of Soil and Water Conservation Practices in the Loess Hilly Region Using a Coupled Rainfall-Runoff-Erosion Model. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):934.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Mengfan Cai; ChunJiang An; Christophe Guy; Chen Lu. 2020. "Assessment of Soil and Water Conservation Practices in the Loess Hilly Region Using a Coupled Rainfall-Runoff-Erosion Model." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 934.