Sustainable River and Lake Restoration: From Challenges to Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable river and lake restoration is an extremely challenging yet profoundly significant research area. With the continuous exacerbation of climate change, industrialization, and urbanization, rivers and lakes worldwide are facing unprecedented pressures and threats. Systematically addressing a series of thorny issues such as water pollution and degradation of aquatic ecosystems by integrating modern science and technology, thereby achieving sustainable restoration of river and lake systems, is an urgent task that needs to be addressed. To this end, we welcome worldwide scholars in this field to contribute review articles and research papers to the Topic "Sustainable River and Lake Restoration: From Challenges to Solutions". The Topics will comprehensively summarize the major obstacles currently being faced in river and lake restoration, sharing the latest research advances and innovative technological approaches and providing forward-looking insights into future development directions. We believe this will help promote interdisciplinary integration and advance the in-depth development of research on sustainable river and lake restoration.

This Topics will invite experts and scholars from relevant fields, both domestically and internationally, to contribute review articles and research papers, covering but not limited to the following topics:

(1) Causes of degradation in river and lake ecosystems and their impacts on biodiversity and human activities;
(2) Application of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-source Data Fusion Methods in River and Lake Ecosystem Management;
(3) Methods for assessing the health of river and lake ecosystems and ecological risk analysis;
(4) Principles, technologies, and practical cases of river and lake ecological restoration;
(5) Scientific management and environmental governance strategies for river and lake ecosystems;
(6) New technologies and methods in river and lake ecosystem research and restoration engineering.

Prof. Dr. Yun Li
Prof. Dr. Hong Yang
Prof. Dr. Xiaogang Wang
Dr. Zhengxian Zhang
Dr. Boran Zhu
Topic Editors