Climate Change Uncertainties in Integrated Water Resources Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transboundary river cooperation; ecological and environmental policy; water resources management; water conflict resolution; water treaties
Interests: water demand and supply; water resources management; water resources cooperation; water resources conflict; resource and environmental policy
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Dear Colleagues,
With the increase in climate change around the world, the shifting of populations in water-stressed regions, and continued economic development, there is a rapid depletion of surface water and aquifer systems to compensate for the reduction of available freshwater supplies in transboundary river basins. For IWRM, it is critical to balance the increased demand in water-stressed river basins to ensure the sustainability of the available freshwater supplies for all stakeholders sharing a river basin in times of uncertainty. This article aims to show how climate change uncertainty affects IWRM planning for sustainability in transboundary river basins. Since there are multiple interacting variables in play at any specific time, such as economic growth, societal demands, natural systems alterations, and policy decisions, the challenge becomes how to construct a successful IWRM set of policies to effectively solve climate change dilemmas while providing water sustainability for all stakeholders sharing a transboundary water basin in order to prevent possible conflict due to water shortages.
Dr. Thomas Ramsey
Dr. Liang Yuan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- integrated water resources management (IWRM)
- transboundary rivers
- uncertainty
- sustainability
- water conflict
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