Downscaling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Water Resources Management in Countries, Basins, and Sub-basins
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 2258
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Interests: water resources systems analysis; coupled human-hydrology modeling; river basin management; drought management
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Interests: surface water–groundwater–policy multisystem coupled modeling; urban flood simulation; flood early warning and emergency management; machine learning and environmental big data analytics; agent-based model; integrated water resources management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require recontextualizing the goals in every country, basin, or sub-basin to cope with the diversity of local conditions and priorities across regions. In particular, several SDGs provide general guidelines for water resource planning and management at the local scale. This Special Issue of Sustainability calls for research and perspective papers that promote research and practice toward downscaling the SDGs for water resource management in countries, basins, and sub-basins, and that facilitate sustainable water resource management everywhere in the world in the light of the SDGs. In general, this Special Issue aims to publish research on the synthesis of country/region experiences, local SDG water indicators, evidence-based decision support tools for local water management practices, and SDG-based guidelines for practices at the basin and sub-basin scales. Specifically, submissions on the following topics in the context of water resource planning and management are encouraged, although submissions are not limited to these topics:
- Dealing with the diversity of local conditions and complexities across scales;
- Data collection and analysis for the assessment of the SDGs across scales;
- State and progress monitoring and assessment towards the SDGs and local sustainable water resource development;
- Institutional support, especially local involvement and participation of various stakeholder communities;
- Risks posed by future uncertainties and risk management infrastructural needs in different regions and areas;
- Interactions between science and practice communities and co-learning between scientists and practitioners;
- International river basin management via collaboration among riparian
In particular, case studies or pilot studies from a country/region that address any of the topics listed above are expected.
Overall, papers to be published in this Special Issue will contribute to the sustainability literature via systematic methods for assessing spatiotemporal progress towards achieving water-related SDGs, as well as collaborative efforts that enhance co-learning between scientists and stakeholders. Overall, taking water resource planning and management across scales as an example, this Special Issue is expected to provide scientific support for realizing the SDGs.
Prof. Dr. Ximing Cai
Dr. Erhu Du
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- water resource planning and management
- river basins
- downscaling
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