The papers of the Special Issue have been published in 2_2020
Guest editors:
- Prof. Natalia Frolova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Prof. Frank Winde, North-West University, South Africa
- Prof. Chansheng He, Western Michigan University, USA
- Prof. Liliana Zaharia, University of Bucharest, Romania
- Dr. Maria Kireeva
Short description:
As a follow-up of recent conferences of the IGU Commission for Water Sustainability in Quebec (2018) and Bucharest (2019) we propose the compilation of a special issue dedicated to studies of water-related challenges in different geographical environments ranging from climate-induced hydrological extreme events in the arctic circle to man-made impacts on water quality and availability through urbanization, irrigation, mining and deforestation in arid and semiarid areas of Africa, Europe and Asia addressing the water-energy-food nexus to the development of hydrological methods and tools encompassing latest remote sensing technology, GIS and numerical modelling. Based on case studies from Russia, China, South Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Antarctica the issue aims to promote integrated transdisciplinary approaches to water sustainability by comprising contributions from different water-related disciplines including Physical and Human Geography, Civil Engineering, Biology, Sedimentology and others. By overcoming disciplinary boundaries and limitations the special issue aims at arriving at an improved understanding of how the complex interplay between natural and anthropogenic factors impact on the sustainable use of water as a renewable yet increasingly scarce resource.
Topics
- Human pressures on water: drivers and consequences
- Water resource variability, monitoring, hydrological hazards and risk management
- Sustainable water use in the context of water-energy-food nexus
- Socio-economic aspects of water sustainability
- Methods in hydrological research
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