Promoting High-Quality Development of the Water Ecology in the Yellow River Basin
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 592
Special Issue Editors
Interests: utilization of water resources; wastewater pollution
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Interests: environment science
Interests: water pollution control
Interests: environmental economy and health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, great changes have taken place in the water ecology of the Yellow River basin. Overall, remarkable achievements have been made in governance, and the water ecology is stable and improving. However, due to the interweaving of historical debts and new ecological problems in the process of economic development, the water ecology in the Yellow River basin is still not optimistic. The main problems include the shortage of water resources and the high utilization rate of development. The utilization of water resources seriously impinges on the ecological flow and leads to a series of water ecological problems such as a sharp decrease in the water environment’s self-purification capacity. Water resources are slightly polluted, and local pollution is serious. The main pollution indicators of the Yellow River basin are ammonia nitrogen, chemical oxygen demand and five-day biochemical oxygen demand. The water ecosystem is degraded, and the ecological service function is reduced. The structure of wetlands in the Yellow River basin has changed obviously, with a decrease in natural wetlands and an increase in constructed wetlands. The decrease in biodiversity in the Yellow River basin is also prominent. According to the ideas of "ecological priority, region-wide governance, basin planning, coordination and sharing", the water ecological protection pattern, water resource allocation pattern and water disaster management pattern of the Yellow River basin are basically reasonable. They play important roles in the high-quality development of the Yellow River basin.
We encourage empirical contributions promoting high-quality development of the water ecology in the Yellow River basin.
Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Ecological protection and restoration of the Yellow River basin;
- Water security and efficient utilization of water resources in the Yellow River basin;
- Water pollution control and water environment protection in the Yellow River basin;
- Water resource policy in the Yellow River basin;
- Heavy metal pollution in the Yellow River basin.
This Special Issue titled "Promoting High-Quality Development of the Water Ecology in the Yellow River Basin" invites scholars to submit novel theoretical, methodological and empirical research papers subject to a highly rigorous peer review before publication.
Dr. Ken Sun
Prof. Dr. Xuetao Guo
Dr. Dongyang Wei
Dr. Li Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water ecological protection and restoration
- efficient utilization of water resources and sustainable development
- environment economic policies on water resources
