Strategic Integration of Hydrogel with Land and Ecosystem Management to Combat Land Degradation and Deforestation:
The research attempts to investigate and understand the properties, behaviour and performance of different super absorbent polymers [Hydrogels]; in order to develop a strategic implementation and deployment of these polymers through the articulation of material systems and logics that respond to local climatic conditions; temporarily stabilising the disrupted Hydro-geological conditions. Therefore, becoming a catalyst for the re-activation of the hydro-biological cycles, which are the foundations for the subsistence of the local settlements.
This research tries to take advantage of the properties of Hydrogels to increase the soil moisture, water percolation, prevention of evaporation, reduction of nutrients loss and its translocation deep into the soil
