Tropical Rivers and Wetlands: Impacts, Hazards, Conservation, and Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2024) | Viewed by 17206
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogeomorphoogy; fluvial geomorphology; water resources; tropical regions; large rivers; human impacts
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Interests: water resources in tropical regions; soil and hydric erosion; tropical soils; territorial planning; land use-land cover changes
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Interests: hydrogeomorphology; fluvial geomorphology; fluvial sedimentology; water resources; tropical regions; human impacts
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Interests: environmental analysis with Remote Sensing and GIS technics; Ummanned Aerial Systems; geographic database and web map platforms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environmental pressure on tropical rivers and other freshwater wetlands has increased rampantly during recent decades. In this Special Issue, we intend to address the multiple environmental drivers triggering impacts on tropical water resources, such as land use and land cover changes, dams, mining, irrigation, pollution, waterways, and flood hazards. The Special Issue intends to cover contributions on how human activities and climate change impact fluvial basins, freshwater wetlands, and river functioning. Emphasis will be given to hydrological, hydro-geomorphological, hydrochemistry, geospatial monitoring, river restoration, modelling, and hydro-ecological research. The issue will focus on scientifically sustained results on water resources management and sustainability planning, comprising a collection of articles aiming to solve tropical rivers' ongoing and future environmental challenges.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Tropical rivers and wetlands hydrology, ecology, and geomorphology.
- LULC in tropical basins and wetlands.
- Landscape ecology of tropical rivers and wetlands.
- Tropical water resources.
- Management and conservation of tropical wetlands and rivers.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Edgardo M. Latrubesse
Prof. Dr. Karla M. Silva de Farias
Prof. Dr. Maximiliano Bayer
Dr. Manuel Eduardo Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tropical rivers
- tropical wetlands
- hydro-geomorphology
- human impacts
- land use changes
- land cover changes
- mining
- waterway
- riparian ecology
- water management
- water resources
- flood hazards
- dams
- aquatic ecology
- environmental policies
- modelling
- restoration
- monitoring
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