Geography and Geoecology of Rivers and River Basins

Dear Colleagues,

River basins and watersheds are spatio-temporal structures of geographical space in which water masses, suspended loads, and bed loads are system-forming flows. The basin concept of environmental management is a promising idea that not only ensures the harmonization of water use and land use in landscapes with high human activity, but also involves geodemographic, ecological, protected, recreational, socio-economic, and other solutions. Therefore, specialists from such fields as hydrology, geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, hydrochemistry, pedology, and geoinformatics can contribute to the development of solutions to this problem. The investigation of river basins is interdisciplinary, and thus, this approach will obviously be the most productive. Interdisciplinary approaches and their practical implementation in a variety of landscapes and social economic conditions are particularly welcome in this Special Issue.

This Special Issue focuses on spatial and functional aspects of the basin organization of the landscape.

The main emphasis in presenting the results of studying river basins for the Special Issue should fit into the policy of the main journal – Geosciences, which welcomes the interaction of the solid earth, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere. Specifically, papers are invited that suggest ways to solve environmental problems at different scale levels, such as the following:

• The geoscientific approach to the study of multiscale river basins;
• GIS and remote sensing as tools for designing, monitoring, and managing basin geosystems;
• Formation of an ecological framework and geodemographic and economic geoplanning within river basins;
• Hydroecological monitoring of river basins and river flow;
• Protection zones of rivers and water bodies: spatial planning, construction, ensuring functionality, and involving local communities in protection;
• New approaches to soil and water conservation of basins, including transboundary agreements.

Prof. Fedor Lisetskii
Guest Editor

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