Sustainable Water and Environmental Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 7406
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water and environmental engineering and management; data mining; strategic planning of water systems; urban water systems; urban flood risk management; real-time control in water and environmental systems; optimal design; rehabilitation and operation of water distribution; sewer systems
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Interests: water; sanitation and hygiene (WASH); drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; water-waste-energy-food nexus in low- and middle-income countries; water reuse technologies and strategies, and decision making tools
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Interests: chemical engineering; nanotechnology; environmental engineering; theoretical chemistry; environmental chemistry; adsorption; sustainable chemistry; water and wastewater treatment; anaerobic biogas; digestion; bioremediation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water and environmental systems have a long history and advanced significantly in recent years. However, it should be noted that one of the important dimensions of this science is to consider sustainability with its different dimensions in the relevant infrastructures and technologies. The main goal of this Special Issue is to develop sustainable water and environmental systems and infrastructure based on methods such as the use of renewable energy sources, the implementation of the circular economy concept and optimization and artificial intelligence to improve the systems efficiency and early warning in response to short-term stresses and long-term impacts in hydro-environmental systems, the principles of sustainable development in these systems, as well as smart management approaches in water science. The key indicators of sustainable development should be evaluated in scientific articles, especially in the field of hydraulic engineering science, and this Special Issue seeks to highlight these indicators. In addition to technical dimensions, social, economic and environmental aspects should also be considered and integrated for any development in hydro-environmental systems.
We invite research and review papers on, but not limited to, the following research areas:
- Conceptual methods or models of urban water systems.
- Sustainability and hydraulic infrastructures in megacities.
- Sustainable hydraulic engineering and applications.
- Performance assessment of sustainability in urban water systems.
- Dynamic Decision Systems and flood prevention technologies.
- Circular economy and rainwater harvesting.
- Smart sustainable hydraulic process in industry 4.0.
- Pollution fate and transport in both surface and groundwater resources.
- Water–food–energy nexus in urban and rural water and wastewater systems.
- Application of artificial intelligence in hydraulic engineering.
- Sustainable knowledge management concept and water resource management.
- Water distribution network and energy supply.
This volume will include research works from around the world that contribute to a better understanding of the connections between sustainability and hydraulic engineering. The mentioned approach can be executed with different targets such as hydraulic facilities’ resiliency enhancement, water supply systems’ eco-environmental efficiency improvement, efficient rainwater harvesting system implementation, well-organized groundwater resource and conservation operation, etc.
Dr. Kourosh Behzadian
Dr. Luiza Campos
Dr. Stanisław Wacławek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development goals (SDGS)
- hydraulic engineering
- water infrastructure
- resiliency
- smart water systems
- decision support system
- water distribution network
- flood management
- real-time flood management
- circular economy
- knowledge management and water facility operations
- eco-environmental assessment
- hydraulic systems