Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance
A section of Water (ISSN 2073-4441).
Section Information
The section of Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance publishes contributions on all aspects of water resources policy, planning, management and governance. Topics covered include the following: integrated water resources management, water resources systems; water resources development; monitoring and protection of water resources; adaptive water management; conjunctive use of water resources; water demand management; capacity building in water resources management; national and international water policy; water economics; institutional arrangements; water law; water rights; property regimes; hydro-diplomacy; trans-boundary water issues; national and international water allocation agreements and treaties; water conflict resolution; public participation, consensus building and confidence building; commercialization of water; water politics; water security; water resources management, policy and governance in socially and environmentally sensitive areas and regions; history of water resources.
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Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advances in Wastewater Resourcezation (Deadline: 18 August 2022)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Water Resources Management (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Application of Hydraulic and Water Quality Models in Support for Ecosystem Management and Restoration (Deadline: 9 September 2022)
- Water Quality Management and Pollution Control under the Impact of Human Actions and Climate Change (Deadline: 10 September 2022)
- Managed Aquifer Recharge: A key to Sustainability (Deadline: 18 September 2022)
- Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigations and Multi-Source Data Integration for Water Resources and Management (Deadline: 20 September 2022)
- Environmental Risk Management (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Water Environmental System Analysis (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Planning and Operations of Adaptive Multi-Objective Multi-Reservoir Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Water Use/Footprint for Agricultural Products during Production, Trade and Consumption Processes (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Water Management and Environmental Protection (Deadline: 20 October 2022)
- Water Resources Management and Extreme Events (Deadline: 20 October 2022)
- Emerging Solutions for Active Water Governance: Intellectual Decision and Smart Control (Deadline: 21 October 2022)
- Advances in Assessing Water Ecosystem Services for Water Resource Management (Deadline: 30 October 2022)
- Water Resource Management for Ecosystem Health: Theory, Methods and Applications (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Challenges and Prospects of Integrated Groundwater Management (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- New Challenges in the Planning, Design, Construction and Operation of Reservoirs in the Context of Climate Change (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Ecological Restoration and Remediation of Degraded and Polluted Environment and Emission Reduction Technologies of Environmental Energy System (Deadline: 5 November 2022)
- Water Resources and Environmental Management (Deadline: 25 November 2022)
- Water Resources Management and Social Issues (Deadline: 30 November 2022)
- Innovative Methods and Applications of Stormwater Management (Deadline: 15 December 2022)
- Sustainable Development of Inland Waterways (Deadline: 20 December 2022)
- Advances in Data-Driven Water-Cycling Analyses (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Innovate Approaches to Sustainable Water Resource Management under Population Growth, Lifestyle Improvements, and Climate Change (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Water Security and Governance in Catchments II (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Integrated Management of Water Distribution Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Stochastic Simulation and Optimization of Water Resources (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Soft Computing for Water and Aquatic Resource Management (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- The New Normal: Water Use Conflicts in the 21st Century (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Water Resources Systems in a Changing World: Planning and Adaptation (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Advance in Water Management and Water Policy Research (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Monitoring and Self-Learning Control of Water Systems (Deadline: 10 January 2023)
- Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Water Environment Management: Innovative Models and Applications (Deadline: 15 January 2023)
- Integrated Water Resources Modeling and Management (Deadline: 20 January 2023)
- Assessment of Watershed Ecosystem Services under Climate Change and Urbanization (Deadline: 30 January 2023)
- Hydraulics of River Networks and Modelling (Deadline: 31 January 2023)
- Multi-Objective Water Resources Operations (Deadline: 31 January 2023)
- Water Resilience: Water Justice (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Sustainable Technologies for Indigenous Water Management (Deadline: 1 March 2023)
- Is the Nexus Approach a Way to Decode the Higher Order Interlinkages between the Water–Food–Energy–Health–Biodiversity? (Deadline: 25 March 2023)
- Coastal Aquifers Management: Hydrological, Environmental, Economic and Social Challenges in the Context of Global Change (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Water Governance Solutions towards Future Environmental Challenges (Deadline: 15 July 2023)
- Application of the Systems Approach to the Management of Complex Water Systems, Volume II (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Yellow River Basin Management under Pressure: Present State, Restoration and Protection II (Deadline: 30 August 2023)
- Advances in Urban Groundwater and Sustainable Water Resources Management and Planning II (Deadline: 31 December 2023)