Improving Water Resource Sustainability in the Context of Climate Change and Global Economic Dislocation

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine the current challenges facing national economies and societies, and the international community generally, with regard to water resources public policy and management. As transition and developing economies struggle to prosper in an increasingly disrupted international system, climatologists, hydrologists, environmental engineers, biologists, political and social economists, and international relations and legal scholars are urged to address the serious sustainability challenges that are evident. An important aspect of these management and policy challenges will be the nexus between water, energy, food, and land management trends. National governments and international organizations are challenged to respond to interacting trends and constraints inherent in this nexus and resolve the conflict of national interests that often seem intractable. Added to this imbalance is the legacy of misguided agricultural, industrial, and environmental policies that diverted water resources for unsustainable agricultural production goals on the one hand and permitted the unfettered industrial pollution of rivers, lakes, and seas on the other. Poaching and the overfishing of inland waters remain serious in many geographies. Frequently, these effects seem to derive from the unbalanced commitment to market fundamentalist policies that place supreme priority on deregulation and privatization. Is there some promise for sustainable development in the recent urgency placed on economic diversification generally and agricultural development and diversification specifically? Can regional policy harmonization efforts mitigate national interest conflicts, especially on transborder water flows? Is there potential for effective and sustainable remediation from emerging technologies?

Prof. Dr. Norman A. Graham
Prof. Dr. Sabyr Nurtazin
Guest Editors

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• governance and regulation of water resources
• transborder river governance
• aquaculture enterprise development
• anti-pollution and water body remediation
• irrigation sustainability
• hydroelectric generation design
• infrastructure remediation and climate change