Water Quality Management and Pollution Control under the Impact of Human Actions and 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 (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 27986
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental pollution and protection; water quality; air quality; environmental monitoring; waste management; environmental ethics; environmental education; climate change; veganism; biotechnology
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Interests: water quality in river and reservoirs; drought; flood; water management; water law; energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Difficult times need sustainable actions and solidarity. Now more than ever, humanity faces the results of its unwise actions. The reality of the climate crisis all over the planet is irrefutable, even for the most skeptical, and it affects an indispensable resource for our life: water. The global climate changes already perturb freshwater availability and will adversely influence the recurrence of floods and droughts, seasonal runoff regimes, surface–subsurface water interactions, erosion and sedimentation processes, algal blooms, and water quality. Humankind’s activities have altered water resources’ quality, especially in the last 50 years, and the consequent pollution has been revealed in most water bodies around the globe. An effective and coordinated water quality management and a strict pollution control must be reshaped and forcefully implemented.
Crucial and influential research works have already been published in the climate change field, and also in water quality and the sources of its degradation. Now is the moment to expose and enlarge the interconnections between these significant fields and to consider the optimum water quality handling and pollution restraint; this Special Issue has been prepared with this dedicated focus and purpose.
We invite you to apply and capitalize your scientific expertise and to act as “air and water” doctors, healing these fundamental “Gaia-spheres” together with decision makers. Your scientific papers and contributions in the field of “Water Quality Management and Pollution Control under the Impact of Human Actions and Climate Change”—the topic of this Special Issue—can help many important ruling authorities, administrative bodies, governances, and political factors to enforce the best solutions and actions.
Several types of articles can be submitted for consideration: original research papers, reviews, case-studies, and theoretical/conceptualization works. We encourage papers that highlight and analyze: the water quality management under the impact of human actions; the water quality handling under the reality of climate change; the impacts of climate change on water quality/how climate change affects water quality; the water pollution control under the influence of different human actions; the water quality monitoring systems under the burden of different economic activities in different times; effective technologies and policies that can mitigate the climate change impacts on water quality; and best practices developed and best lessons learnt (narratives can be also useful) on climate change impacts upon water quality.
We look forward to receiving your contributions ahead of 10th of September 2022!
Prof. Dr. Valentina-Mariana Manoiu
Dr. Katarzyna Kubiak-Wójcicka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water quality
- water pollution
- control
- management
- climate change
- human actions
- water monitoring
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