Reframing Water Governance in Transition: Integrating Infrastructure Management, Policy Design, and Smart Water Conservancy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2027 | Viewed by 26
Editors
Interests: environmental economics and policy; water resources and environmental policy; urban and regional environmental policy; river basin resources/environment management and planning; integrated water management and water security
Interests: integrated water resource management (IWRM); stakeholder engagement; stakeholder coordination and mediation; river basin cooperation; watershed collaboration
Interests: big data analysis of water environments; smart water conservancy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue responds directly to a critical gap in sustainability research: the persistent separation of water infrastructure management, policy design, and hydrological risk assessment in the face of accelerating climate change. While these domains have each advanced independently, their lack of integration has limited the effectiveness of water governance and climate adaptation strategies.
By explicitly linking adaptive governance frameworks with sustainable infrastructure and machine learning-enhanced hydrological forecasting, this Special Issue offers a timely and interdisciplinary contribution aligned with Sustainability’s core mission. It brings together institutional and policy analysis with data-driven innovation to address water security, disaster risk reduction, and social equity in urban and regional water systems. The proposed focus not only reflects emerging research frontiers but also provides a coherent platform for advancing integrative, impact-oriented sustainability scholarship.
Prof. Dr. Ken’ichi Nakagami
Dr. Hironori Hamasaki
Dr. Kangling Lin
Dr. Sheng Sheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable water governance
- water security
- infrastructure management
- policy design
- integrated water management
- adaptive governance
- climate resilience
- public water services
- multi-level governance
- institutional design
- socio-technical systems
- infrastructure sustainability
- environmental justice
- urban water systems
- machine learning
- deep learning
- multi-source data fusion
- intelligent flood forecasting
- predictive hydrometeorology
- typhoon resilience
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