Technical Sections I: Land and Water
INTRODUCTION
Land and Water Engineering
Promote the advance of the engineering science in the area of land and water use in agriculture and in rural areas, giving special attention to the conservation of resources, the preservation and re-establishment of environmental balances, and the social and economic impacts of applications in order to realize sustainable development for both urban and rural societies.
- 2018 Report of Section I (Click here)
- 2013 Report of Section I (Click here)
- 2012 Report of Section I (Click here)
- 2011 Report of Section I (Click here)
- 2010 Report of Section I (Click here)
Members:
Chair: Dr. Claudio García
Senior Research. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa de Producción y Sustentabilidad... read-more Uruguay TEL: +59823677641 E-mail: cgarcia@inia.org.uy |
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Secretary: Dr. Karima Sebari
Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Department of rural engineering, Rabat Morocco TEL: E-mail: k.sebari@iav.ac.ma |
Member: Prof. Taisheng Du
Center for Agricultural Water Research in China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China China TEL: E-mail: dutaisheng@cau.edu.cn |
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, College of Agriculture, 3045-601 Coimbra, Portugal, and Linking Landscape,... read-more Portugal TEL: +351 239 802 261 E-mail: jmmg@esac.pt |
Member: Dr. Nicola Lamaddalena
DLand and Water Resources Management Department CIHEAM-IAMB, Bari Italy TEL: +39 0804606234 E-mail: lamaddalena@iamb.it |
Member: Dr. Silvio Carlos Lima
Institute for Research and Innovation in Irrigated Agriculture (INOVAGRI), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Brazil TEL: E-mail: silviocarlos@inovagri.org.br |
Member: Dr. Atmaram Mishra
International Water Management Institute, New Delhi Office, New Delhi – 110012, India India TEL: E-mail: atmaramm@yahoo.com |
Member: Prof. Forster Ndibusi
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, 3137 TAMU,... read-more United States TEL: E-mail: fndubisi@arch.tamu.edu |
Member: Prof. Budi Indra Setiawan
Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia Indonesia TEL: E-mail: budindra@apps.ipb.ac.id |
Member: Prof. Nobuo Toride
Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho Tsu, Japan Japan TEL: +81 59-231-9588 E-mail: ntoride@bio.mie-u.ac.jpg |
Honorary Chairs:
Land Use Planning Group Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 Wageningen Netherlands TEL: +31 317 484840 E-mail: gerrit-jan.carsjens@wur.nl |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Mauro Greppi
Istituto di Idraulica Agraria, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, IT-20133 Milano Italy TEL: +39 02 50316906 E-mail: mauro.greppi@unimi.it |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Guanhua Huang
Chinese-Israeli International Center for Research and Training in Agriculture (CIICTA), China Agricultural University (... read-more China TEL: +86 10 62737154 / 62737138 E-mail: ghuang@cau.edu.cn |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. André Musy
Laboratory Hydrology and Land Improvement, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, School of Architecture,... read-more Switzerland TEL: +41 21 69 33 721 E-mail: andre.musy@epfl.ch |
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon University, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food - LEAF,... read-more Portugal TEL: +351 21 365 3100 E-mail: luis.santospereira@gmail.com |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Yohei Sato
Japan Association of Agricultural Engineering Enterprises: c/o Nogyodoboku-Kaikan, 5-34-4, shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo... read-more Japan TEL: 090-4701-4017 E-mail: sato-yoh@mail2.accsnet.ne.jp |
Director Regional Centre on Water Research, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario, E 02071 Albacete,... read-more Spain TEL: +34 967 599 200 E-mail: jose.tarjuelo@uclm.es |
Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Netherlands TEL: |
Liaison Members
Liaison Members: Prof. Guido D’Urso
Department of Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy, University of Naples "Federico II", Via Università 100, I-80055... read-more Italy TEL: +39-081-2539418 E-mail: guido.durso@unina.it |
Liaison Members: Dr. José Fernando Ortega Álvarez
Regional Centre on Water Research, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario, E 02071 Albacete, Spain Spain TEL: +34 967 599 200 E-mail: jose.ortega@uclm.es |
Liaison Members: Prof. Ragab Ragab
Centre for Ecology & Idrology (CEH) Maclean building, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford, OX10 8BB United Kingdom TEL: +44 1491 692303 E-mail: rag@ceh.ac.uk |
Liaison Members: Prof. Nunzio Romano
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Division for Land and Water Resources Management, University of Naples Federico... read-more Italy TEL: +39-081-2539421 E-mail: nunzio.romano@unina.it |
Liaison Members: Prof. José Luis Rubio
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificacion - CIDE, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universitat de... read-more Spain TEL: +34 96 342 41 62 E-mail: jose.l.rubio@uv.es |
Liaison Members: Prof. Yoshiyuki Shinogi
Laboratory of Irrigation and Water Management, Division of Bioproduction Environmental Sciences, Department of Agro-... read-more Japan TEL: +81 92 642 2909 E-mail: yshinogi@bpes.kyushu-u.ac.jp |
Mission, Objectives, Scope and Activities
Mission:
The mission statement of CIGR Section 1: Land and Water is: “… to promote the advance of the engineering science in the area of land and water use in agriculture and in rural areas, giving special attention to the conservation of resources, the preservation and re-establishment of environmental balances, and the social and economic impacts of applications in order to realize sustainable development for both urban and rural societies …”
Objectives:
The mission statement of Section I implies a range of objectives that contribute to the promotion of engineering science in land and water use in agriculture. These are:
- Improving the knowledge on processes leading to or affecting the quality of land and water resources;
- Developing and applying technologies for land use planning, including forecasting land use changes, andassessing land use impacts;
- Improving the knowledge of hydrological processes as affected by land use and agricultural practices;
- Enhancing knowledge of water contamination by fertilizers and agro-chemicals, and other agricultural sources, as well as assessing control measures;
- Improving technologies for higher performances in irrigation and drainage;
- Assessing environmental impacts of land and water use in agriculture;
- Developing technologies, standards and monitoring systems for wastewater treatment and reuse, and use of low quality water in agriculture.
Scope:
Considering the objectives defined as above, the scope of CIGR-Section I refers to the following main subject areas:
- Soil management and soil technologies;
- Soil and water conservation and soil erosion assessment;
- Agricultural and rural watershed hydrology;
- Land use planning and management;
- Rural roads and related supporting infrastructures;
- Irrigation scheduling and on-farm irrigation systems;
- Surface and sub-surface drainage systems;
- Irrigation water supply, conveyance and distribution systems;
- Non-point and point source contamination assessment and control;
- Integrated soil and water use planning;
- Integrated impact assessment of land and water development projects;
- Modern technologies in land and water engineering, including modelling, information systems, remote sensing, decision support and expert systems.
Activities:
To achieve the objectives, several activities shall be developed by CIGR-Section I. These comprise:
- Organisation, sponsoring and co-sponsoring of seminars, workshops and conferences oriented to the objectives and scope of CIGR-Section I;
- Co-organisation of thematic special sessions, workshops or seminars on occasions of CIGR congresses;
- Collaboration in scientific committees of general themes of CIGR Congresses;
- Contributing to the e-journal of CIGR, both with papers and paper reviews, as well as to other publications of CIGR;
- Supporting the specialised working groups of CIGR of which themes fall in the domain of the Section, the respective Chair Persons becoming members of the Section Board;
- Establishing special relationships with other international societies of which field is common to that of Section I, namely the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage and the European Society for Soil Conservation, of which representatives are ex-office members of the Board of Section I;
- Developing relations with the regional Agricultural Engineering Societies for implementing common actions; at present one Vice-President of EurAgEng is ex-office member of the Board of Section I;
- Implementing inter-sections activities;
- Promoting exchanges of scientific information with professionals, such as through the FAO Agricultural Engineering sites.
The Section co-operates with three Working Groups:
- the Working Group on “Sustainable Land Use and Landscape Planning”, chaired by Gerrit J. Carsjens;
- the Working Group on “Water Management and Information Systems”, chaired by José Fernando Ortega;
- the Working Group on “Earth Observation for Land and Water Engineering”, chaired by Guido D’Urso.
Events organized by Section I
Title | Date | Event type | Location | Country |
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5th Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges | Tue, 10/09/2019 to Thu, 12/09/2019 | Conference | Rabat | Morocco |
4th Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges | Wed, 21/06/2017 | Conference | Cancun | Mexico |
3 rd Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges: “Tools for developing” | Sun, 27/09/2015 to Wed, 30/09/2015 | Conference | Colonia | Uruguay |
2nd Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges (in conjunction with the CIGR World Congress), in Beijing, China, 2014. | Sat, 21/06/2014 | Conference | Beijing | China |
1st Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges, Bari, Italy, 2013. | Fri, 21/06/2013 | Conference | Bari | Italy |
Inter-Regional Conferences “Environment and Water" from 1998 to 2012 | Thu, 21/06/2012 | Conference | Various | Spain |