Sustainable and Robust Water Futures in the Context of Global Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 764
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water resources; climate change cmpacts; groundwater; hydrological modelling; water security; Bayesian networks and water management
Interests: water resources; drought and floods; climate change; groundwater and surface water interaction; hydrological modelling
Interests: climate change impacts; adaptation strategies; water resources; hydrology; groundwater; remote sensing; droughts; stream-aquifer interaction; conjunctive use; management models; decision support systems
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Interests: hydrological and land surface water balance modelling; development of land data assimilation systems to ingest remote sensing retrivals; droughts and floods; ecohydrology
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Interests: the shape of river networks is the result of optimization of energy dissipation and auto organization; the theory of geomorphologic unit hydrograph; new views on the soil moisture estimation; process based permafrost modelling; the theory of transport per travel time at catchment scale; process-based, distributed modelling of the hydrological cycle (including the energy budget); new physico-statistical views of river basins hydrology
Interests: water resources; global change; hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; climate change; groundwater geochemical and quantitative status; groundwater age and residence times; groundwater dependent terrestrial and associated aquatic ecosystems; EU and UN water policies
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Interests: water resources management; climate change adaptation especially in urban environments, and use of nature based solutions; water governance; integrated hydrological modelling; adaptive water management; resilience; disaster risk management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water demand increases as a result of population growth, food production, growing industrialisation, land use changes (including urbanisation) and climate change, which puts massive pressure on global water resources and biodiversity. The increasing demand and pressure lead to significant hydrological cycle modifications, challenging the already-critical water security situation. In this context, the interconnection between human activities, the hydrological cycle and the environment is currently stronger than ever, to the point where the traditional representation of the water cycle is considered insufficient and outdated. Particularly, alleviating scarcity in drought periods, combatting flooding, improving the quantity and quality of water and maintaining a sustainable balance between natural ecosystems and human use are crucial for securing robust water futures that do not breach planetary boundaries.
This Special Issue entitled “Sustainable and Robust Groundwater Futures in the Context of Global Change” aims to explore new representations and models, methods and tools for relevant local-scale climate change impact assessments that draw upon the increasing number of global- to continental-scale hydrological models, innovative earth observation and machine-learning-aided methods, and knowledge from local data, models and stakeholders. Climate change impact projections of the hydrological cycle require simulations with coupled hydrologic and climate models, and knowledge-guided machine learning which can be used to enhance the outputs of those models, and to circumvent computational limitations of physically based hydrological models. Studies on indicators and the integrated modelling and monitoring of global change impacts on coastal aquifers or groundwater-dependent or groundwater-associated terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are also welcomed.
Dr. Hans Jørgen Henriksen
Dr. Hélène Bessière
Dr. David Pulido-Velázquez
Dr. Christian Massari
Prof. Dr. Riccardo Rigon
Dr. Klaus Hinsby
Dr. Peter van der Keur
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change impacts on water security
- global change impacts on groundwater dependent ecosystems and biodiversity
- continental and regional conceptual hydrological models
- local integrated hydrological models
- advanced and innovative machine learning based methods to downscale future water availability
- innovative water availability and groundwater indicators
- human alterations of the water cycle, especially irrigation
- stakeholder engagement in fostering climate change adaptation and resilience
