Sustainable Ecosystem Services and Water Resources Management

Dear Colleagues,

The preservation and management of ecosystems are essential for ensuring the sustainability of water resources. Meanwhile, water resource utilization, management, and protection play a vital role in sustaining ecosystem services. Integrating ecosystem services into water resources management can considerably enhance conventional practices. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on "Sustainable Ecosystem Services and Water Resources Management".

However, integrating ecosystem services into water resources management poses complex interdisciplinary challenges spanning natural sciences and humanities. It also encompasses principles, theories, methods, technologies, policies, practices, and various other aspects. We welcome experts and researchers to contribute original research, reviews, and opinion pieces covering all topics related to water resources management from an ecosystem services perspective. The inherent natural, environmental, social, and economic aspects related to this Special Issue are also highly encouraged to be focused on.

We place special emphasis on, but this is not limited to, the following topics:

• Identifying research gaps in sustainable ecosystem services and water resources management;
• Innovative indicators, methods, and tools for characterization and quantification of water-related ecosystem services;
• Synergies, tradeoffs, and interactions among multiple ecosystem services in water systems;
• Nature-based water resources management solutions in diverse ecosystems;
• Water–energy–food–ecosystems nexus for sustainability;
• Theory and practice of hydrodynamic reconstruction and water ecological restoration for sustainable ecosystem services;
• Case studies and interdisciplinary approaches.

To enhance social–ecological resilience under our complex and changing environment, we eagerly anticipate receiving your valuable contributions to this Special Issue on sustainable ecosystem services and water resources management.

Prof. Dr. Dan Chen
Dr. Qiong Yue
Dr. Zhaohui Luo
Guest Editors

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• ecosystem services
• water resources management
• ecosystems
• sustainability
• water issues and solutions
• NEXUS
• ecological restoration