Abstract
Runoff processes are of paramount importance in badland systems which act as runoff sources with significant effects on and off-site. Badland surfaces are highly dynamic in space and time, generating a wide variety of interacting factors and processes that determine runoff generation and flow paths. Understanding these runoff generation processes is critical to answering basic issues in badlands, such as water erosion and flash flood generation, and will further increase our ability to predict runoff and its off-site effects under the impact of future climate and land use. A global perspective of the factors and processes and the interactions driving badland runoff response and its variability are described here. The main impacts expected from forecast climate change on badland runoff under the different conditions in which badlands exist are also examined. Furthermore, the main gaps in knowledge of badland responses to rainfall and their impacts under current and global change scenarios are identified.
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