Integrated River Basin Management and Regional Sustainable Development
This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue for Sustainability aims to present current theoretical and applied work to advance our understanding of integrated river basin management and regional sustainable development. The idea of integrated river basin management has gained prominence mainly because water security has become a pivotal issue for regional sustainable development in recent years, particularly for regions with a fragile ecology and sensitive to global climate change, urbanization and industrialization, economic growth, land use and land cover change, etc.
This Special Issue for Sustainability addresses all the direct and indirect restrictions and stimuli of regional sustainable development in river basins. We invite papers that address the following suggested and other related topics:
- influences of urbanization and industrialization on water demand
- planting structure change, agricultural irrigation and influences on water demand
- ecological water demand and water cycles
- climate change, land use and land cover change and influences on water cycles
- integrated river basin management strategy
Dr. Xiangzheng Deng
Dr. Ram Babu Singh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- integrated water resources management
- sustainable and adaptive management
- climate change
- urbanization
- industrialization
- planting structure change
- agricultural irrigation
- economic growth
- land use and land cover change
- ecosystem services
- ecological water demand
- drought forecasting and drought management
- water cycles
- sustainable development
- regional policy analysis
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Published Papers
Sustainability - ISSN 2071-1050