Water Resources and Sustainable Development: Social, Economic, Psychological and Educational Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

Water Rresource depletion is one of the most pressing issues facing human and natural systems. The availability of water resources is a condition for achieving the wellbeing of citizens. The efficient management of water resources plays a crucial role in sustainable deceloppment and in strengthening the resilience of environmental, economic, and social systems in the face of climate change. While the preponderance of research on water resource management and sustainable development comes mainly from the natural sciences, the role of psychology in understanding and addressing the problem of the efficient use of water resources is not widely recognized. Transition to a sustainable future and a sustainable economy requires an informed multidisciplinary understanding of how people experience, appraise, adapt, and respond to water resource management. Sustainable development includes an integrated water management approach that cannot be accomplished without public participation. A sustainable future requires understanding people’s perceptions of water resource management and psychological factors that influence sustainable behavior and policy support. Environmental education can help and support this effort because it aims to help people to acquire knowledge, skills, values, experiences, and gain awareness of their environment in order to act and solve present and future environmental problems. The present Special Issue deals with—but is not limted to—the integrated management of water resources, gereral issues related to sustainable development, and sociopsychological perspectives of sustainable use of water resources and climate change adaptation. This Special Issue welcomes research contributions on:

• Technical, economic, financial, social, environmental, legal, and institutional aspects of water resources;
• Integrated water resource management and its importance to sustainable development;
• Role of water resource management in economic development;
• Water management and payment for environmental services;
• Water resource availability, climate change, immigration of people, and global injustice;
• Water resources and economic growth;
• Public perceptions of marine issues and management preferences;
• Economic demography and water resources;
• Psychological dimensions of public perceptions and appraisals related to the relationship between water resources and sustainable development;
• Iindividual adaptation and mitigation behavioral strategies;
• Water resources, conservation, and sustainability-related behavior;
• Ocean literacy and education: principles and concepts of ocean science;
• Development impacts of improved water resource management;
• People’s evaluation of climate change adaptation policies at a local and country level for water resource management for a sustainable development.

Dr. Steriani K Matsiori
Prof. Dr. George Halkos
Dr. Anastasia Gkargkavouzi
Dr. Sophoclis E. Dritsas
Guest Editors

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