Local Water Security for Health
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 5248
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coupled systems approaches to human health; local water security; WaSH; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit original research papers to a Special Issue on the topic of "Local Water Security for Health”. This Special Issue will focus on the social, economic, cultural, governance, structural, and environmental dimensions of local water security, their links to each other, and to human health and wellbeing. Papers can focus on theoretical framings, models, tools, or case studies. Within the context of our changing planet, local water security (sustainable access for healthy and productive lives for individuals, communities, neighbors, and future generations) is increasingly under threat. Local water security is a multi-dimensional challenge that reflects the historical and current realities, interplays between people, the environment, the economy, and the changing environments that manifest in the health status of people and communities. This Issue seeks to advance the dialogue around water (in)security in small communities around the world, through the explicit recognition of the links between the societal and physical systems, human health, and the tools that enhance our ability to capture these complexities towards building resilient, water-secure, healthy communities. We particularly welcome papers focused on marginalized populations.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sarah Dickson-Anderson
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 submissions that pass pre-check are 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 2400 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.
Keywords
- water security
- community health
- health and wellbeing
- land use
- governance
- water use
- climate change
- coupled systems
