Sustainability of Water Environment

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that I ask you to join forces and show your excellent skills in the field of Hydraulics, in a broad sense, in giving life to the Special Issue “Sustainability of Water Environments” of the journal Sustainability by MDPI.

As Ban Ki-Moon (UN Secretary-General) said: “Environmental, economic and social indicators tell us that our current model of progress is unsustainable. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.” Water is absolutely at the heart of sustainable development and is fundamental to human well-being. It is only renewable if well managed. Water resources support poverty reduction, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. Water is also at the core of adaptation to climate change and serves as a crucial link between the climate system, human society, and the environment. The challenge is to manage water resources to maintain a beneficial balance between built and natural infrastructures and provision of their respective services.

It is the task of the scientific community (i.e., us) to ensure that water sustainability can pose a serious challenge to meet the needs of both people and planet. This Special Issue aims to be useful for researchers and practical engineers in making a rapid assessment of different environmental water body problems. There are different aspects and problems concerning water environments, such as the management of water resources, the management of pollution and waste water, the assessment of coastal risk due to flooding from the sea and erosion, etc. Equally varied are the ways in which the scientific world aims to remedy the problems related to the water environment with its research and results, which can be based on numerical codes, physical models, and in situ surveys, in the best case in full synergy among them.

I am sure that with your help all contributions will provide interesting insights into the scientific world inherent to the field of water environments.

Dr. Daniela Malcangio
Dr. Alan Cuthbertson
Dr. Juan T. García
Dr. Alessandra Saponieri
Dr. Janek Laanearu
Guest Editors

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