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Special Issue "Groundwater Resources: Sustainable Use and Management, Pollution Prevention, Remediation, Technology and Strategies"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Heejung Kim
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Department Geology, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon City (24341), Republic of Korea
Interests: sustainable groundwater management; groundwater sustainability; geomicrobiology; groundwater remediation; hydroecology; hyporheic zone; karst hydrogeology
Prof. Chungwan Lim
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Guest Editor
Department of Earth Science Education, Kongju National University, Kongju 32588, Republic of Korea
Interests: sustainable development; environmental indicators; acid mine drainage; global climate change; geochemistry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Global climate change and urbanization significantly affect water cycle systems and alter the use and management of groundwater resources that are essential for survival. Strategies are needed to secure ecologically and environmentally sound groundwater resources for the next generation against natural and artificial threats.We welcome researches focus on the protection and sustainable use of groundwater resources.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Sustainable management of groundwater resources;
  • Regional aquifer systems under climate change;
  • Technology and strategies for sustainable use of groundwater;
  • Tracing flow systems using chemical and isotopic indicators;
  • Groundwater quality and contamination;
  • What is next with emerging contaminants?
  • Ecohydrology variability and global climate change;
  • Groundwater remediation;
  • Groundwater–surface water interactions;
  • Biogeochemistry of hyporheic zones;
  • Acid mine drainage;
  • Groundwater sustainability: Engineering approaches and perspectives;
  • Sustainability education research practice in schools;
  • Groundwater policy.

Prof. Heejung Kim
Prof. Chungwan Lim
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Strategies to Assure the Sustainability of Groundwater Resources
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Heejung Kim
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Chungwan Lim
Sustainability 2020, 12(21), 9183; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219183 - 04 Nov 2020
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Climate-related changes that have occurred over the last few decades are particularly induced by changes in large-scale hydrological cycle processes [...] Full article
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Need for Seismic Hydrology Research with a Geomicrobiological Focus
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Heejung Kim
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8704; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168704 - 04 Aug 2021
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Earthquakes cause deformation in previously stable groundwater environments, resulting in changes to the hydrogeological characteristics. The changes to hydrological processes following large-scale earthquakes have been investigated through many physicochemical studies, but understanding of the associated geomicrobiological responses remains limited. To complement the understanding [...] Read more.
Earthquakes cause deformation in previously stable groundwater environments, resulting in changes to the hydrogeological characteristics. The changes to hydrological processes following large-scale earthquakes have been investigated through many physicochemical studies, but understanding of the associated geomicrobiological responses remains limited. To complement the understanding of earthquakes gathered using hydrogeochemical approaches, studies on the effects of the Earth’s deep crustal fluids on microbial community structures can be applied. These studies could help establish the degree of resilience and sustainability of the underground ecosystem following an earthquake. Furthermore, investigations on changes in the microbial community structure of the Earth’s deep crustal fluids before and after an earthquake can be used to predict an earthquake. The results derived from studies that merge hydrogeochemical and geomicrobiological changes in the deep crustal fluids due to the effect of stress on rock characteristics within a fault zone can be used to correlate these factors with earthquake occurrences. In addition, an earthquake risk evaluation method may be developed based on the observable characteristics of fault-zone aquifers. Full article
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Groundwater Resources from Eastern Romania under Human and Climatic Pressure
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Ionuț Minea
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Marina Iosub
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Daniel Boicu
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10341; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410341 - 10 Dec 2020
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Groundwater resources from a region may be subject to complex human and climatic pressure. The present study tries to analyze the human and climatic pressure on the groundwater resources from the eastern part of Romania, between 1983 and 2017, for seven groundwater bodies. [...] Read more.
Groundwater resources from a region may be subject to complex human and climatic pressure. The present study tries to analyze the human and climatic pressure on the groundwater resources from the eastern part of Romania, between 1983 and 2017, for seven groundwater bodies. Two parameters, the groundwater exploitation index (GWEI) and the Standardized Groundwater Index (SGI) for identifying hydrogeological droughts, were used to assess human and climatic pressure. The high values of GWEI show a significant increase in human pressure on water resources in recent decades, in lower and more populated areas, from the south and north part of de region, amid increasing investment in agriculture. In the case of climate pressure, the SGI values show significant values for the years 1983, 2000, 2007, and 2012. However, the overlap of hydrogeological droughts with an increase in human pressure can have a significant impact on the groundwater resources from this region, with negative effects in the mid and long term, under the growing effects of the regional climate changes. Full article
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