Sustainable Water Footprints: Recent Advances and Future Directions
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 2322
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental assessments; water footprint; water productivity; water and solute transport modeling
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Interests: water resource management; integrated assessment modelling; water productivity; hydrology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Freshwater scarcity is a major threat to sustainable human development. Even when physical water availability may be low and highly variable in many places and threatened by climate change, water scarcity is mainly caused by strongly increased human water demands, violating environmental flow requirements in many regions of the world. These violations indicate that humanity’s current water footprint is not sustainable under current consumption patterns. Knowing the fact that agriculture is the biggest freshwater user at the global scale and that global food demand is increasing, the sustainability of future food security is threatened by water shortage challenges. Hence, promising pathways should be developed to lower water footprints to their sustainable levels in different places.
This Special Issue is dedicated to “Sustainable Water Footprints: Recent Advances and Future Directions” and seeks to capture cutting-edge research and practices. Hence, we would like to call for original papers from researchers, practitioners, water managers, and decision-makers about their contributions to assessing humanity’s water consumption patterns and analyzing their contribution to addressing water shortage challenges. We are looking for papers that assess current and/or future sustainability levels of humanity’s water footprint from different perspectives—either under current water consumption patterns or under efficiently altered ones.
Our main focus in this Special Issue of Water will be on two main aspects: (i) assessing the current and/or future water footprint pattern of humanity, and determining the hotspots through a sustainability analysis; and (ii) developing promising pathways for alleviating unsustainable water consumptions in hotspots and assessing their expected consequences from different perspectives. Papers can involve case studies for different nations, basins, or regions, or can address the global scale. Pathways could be developed either for a specific water consumer, or for all of them.
We would like to provide a comprehensive collection of such water-related research contributions with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination and application of research results. Papers will be selected thorough a peer-review procedure. Full research articles, reviews, and shorter commentaries/communications from practitioners are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Fatemeh Karandish
Prof. Dr. Maarten S. Krol
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water and food security
- water footprint
- water consumption pattern
- environmental flow requirements
- sustainability assessment
- alleviating water scarcity
