Water Management to Protect Aquatic Ecosystems Function and Health in the Face of Climate Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 6057
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past decade, numerous articles have been published on the potential impacts of climate change on the world’s aquatic ecosystems. A list of citations would surpass the word limit of this summary. It is fair to say, however, that these papers have focused largely on how changes in hydrologic conditions, sometimes filtered through water management regimes, might exacerbate the global decline in the status of aquatic ecosystems. Less numerous have been articles focused on suggesting specific water managment actions in response to this challenge. This Special Issue seeks to create a venue for such articles. Recognizing the integrated nature of this challenge, papers emerging from collaborations between aquatic ecologists, hydrologists, engineers, economists, and social scientists are particularly welcome.
Specific research questions of interest, filtered through the lens of climate change, might include the following. How can water allocation regimes be adjusted to improve aquatic ecosystem function and health? How can infrastructure operations be adjusted to improve the aquatic ecosystem and its health? How can tradeoffs between aquatic ecosystem function and health and the productive use of water be characterized and balanced? Which stakeholder participation and engagment strategies work best to balance these tradeoffs? Does climate change create heretofore unavailable opportunities for water and aquatic ecosystem management innovation? While these questions may be addressed within specific water management/aquatic ecosystem contexts, authors are encouraged to identify more general policy and practice recomendations.
Dr. David Purkey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Freshwater ecosystems
- Aquatic ecosystem function
- Water management impacts on aquatic ecosystems
- Water management under climate change
- Multi-objective decision making
- Decision making under uncertainty
