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Sustainable Water Management under Global Environmental 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 (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 15945

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Prof. Dr. Yongping Wei

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School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Interests: earth and environmental science
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A societal transformation towards sustainability is globally needed. Water management should be seen as part of this transformative change process. It is a process that regulates the development and management of water resources and affects the articulation between the bio-physical system and the social-economic system of water. It includes evolving processes of climatic, geomorphologic, hydrologic, ecological, social, economic, cultural and institutional systems and their linkages. Global climate and socio-economic changes are impacting these processes in less predictable ways. Understanding and modelling the non-stationarity shifts of these processes is one of the major challenges for sustainable water management. This Special Issue, entitled “Sustainable Water Management under Global Environmental Change” aims to contribute to addressing this challenge. We encourage multiple disciplinary submissions from natural science to social sciences which help improve the understanding of some of these processes, in particular their linkages of water management with empirical and/or analytical approaches on one of several management issues: water scarcity, water quality, flood/drought mitigation, food production, hydropower generation, and public environmental water allocation.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yongping Wei
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Sustainable water management
  • Global environmental changes
  • Transformative processes
  • Non-stationarity shifts
  • Multiple-disciplinary approach
  • Water scarcity
  • Water quality

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The Role of Community Champions in Long-Term Sustainable Urban Water Planning
by Jo Lindsay, Briony C. Rogers, Emma Church, Alexander Gunn, Katie Hammer, Angela J. Dean and Kelly Fielding
Water 2019, 11(3), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030476 - 06 Mar 2019
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Community engagement and stewardship are important elements in urban water planning if we are to achieve the vision of water sensitive cities. The aim of this study was to explore how community members could participate in collaborative water planning processes that are adaptive, [...] Read more.
Community engagement and stewardship are important elements in urban water planning if we are to achieve the vision of water sensitive cities. The aim of this study was to explore how community members could participate in collaborative water planning processes that are adaptive, participatory and transdisciplinary. We conducted a case study of community participation in a water planning process in the regional town of Bendigo in Australia. Over a period of eight months, we worked with key stakeholders to generate integrated, collaborative and people-centred water planning. This involved a series of community champion workshops supplemented by focus groups with additional community members that ran alongside workshops with water and local planning professionals. The goal of the process was to bring together industry, government partners and community members to develop a 50-year vision for a water sensitive Bendigo and to identify the steps needed to achieve this vision. Key findings were that community champions were keen to learn and contribute to urban water planning in their local context. Given time and support, community champions were able to distil complex ideas and make compromises to contribute to a shared vision for the city. Our findings confirm that community champions can play the role of knowledge brokers between water managers and the general population. The research contributes knowledge regarding the value of engaging community champions in urban water planning. Full article
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Allocating Water in the Mekong River Basin during the Dry Season
by Liang Yuan, Weijun He, Zaiyi Liao, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu, Min An, Zhaofang Zhang and Xia Wu
Water 2019, 11(2), 400; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020400 - 25 Feb 2019
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With population numbers increasing and anthropogenic climate change, the amount of available fresh water is declining. This scenario can lead to an increase in the occurrence of water conflicts, especially in transboundary river basins. Prevention strategies to avert water conflicts by designing a [...] Read more.
With population numbers increasing and anthropogenic climate change, the amount of available fresh water is declining. This scenario can lead to an increase in the occurrence of water conflicts, especially in transboundary river basins. Prevention strategies to avert water conflicts by designing a fair, efficient, and sustainable water allocation framework are needed. Taking into account the socioeconomic and environmental differences among the riparian countries is one of the most important features an allocation scheme should have. In this article, bankruptcy and bargaining games were used to construct a new weighted water allocation model. The proposed method was applied to allocate the contested water capital of the Mekong River during the dry season. The Mekong River originates in China and flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The results of the allocation showed that, except for China and Vietnam, all the other riparian countries get their full claim of the water demand from the river. The water allocation payoffs satisfy individual rationality, Pareto optimality, and maximization of the group utility. Therefore, the allocation outputs from the proposed scheme are self-enforceable and sustainable. Full article
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Eight Hundred Years of Drought and Flood Disasters and Precipitation Sequence Reconstruction in Wuzhou City, Southwest China
by Yinjun Zhao, Nan Yang, Yongping Wei, Bo Hu, Qizhi Cao, Kai Tong and Yulian Liang
Water 2019, 11(2), 219; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020219 - 28 Jan 2019
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Natural hazards such as floods and droughts occur frequently in southwestern China and have occurred more frequently in recent years, which has caused and will continue to cause serious damage to ecosystems and human lives and property. A full knowledge of the probability [...] Read more.
Natural hazards such as floods and droughts occur frequently in southwestern China and have occurred more frequently in recent years, which has caused and will continue to cause serious damage to ecosystems and human lives and property. A full knowledge of the probability of hydro climatic variables is essential for the prevention and mitigation of natural hazards in return. Based on historical archives, atlases and other documented data, a sequence of graded drought and flood disasters covering the period 1250–2000 in Wuzhou City, southwest China, was reconstructed. Then, a correlation coefficient (−0.79, p < 0.01) was established between the sequence of grades and the measured annual precipitation from 1961 to 2000; using this correlation and the sequence of grades from 1250 to 2000, the annual precipitation record (from 1250 to 2000) was reconstructed and extended. Finally, we compared the reconstructed annual precipitation to the measured values from 1961–2000 to evaluate the efficacy of this method. The results show that the reconstructed precipitation sequence is credible, with a high correlation coefficient (0.84, p < 0.01) and a low relative bias (−1.95%). The reconstructed results indicate that the annual precipitation in Wuzhou City increased continuously during the 13–15th century and the 18–19th century and decreased during the 16–17th century and the 20th century. These results are expected to be useful for the prevention of flood and drought impacts and for understanding climate change. Full article
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