Sustainable Water Management in Urban, Agricultural and Natural Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Water is a fundamental resource for producing food, fiber and other human needs and only its sustainable management in urban, agricultural, and natural systems can safeguard society's future well-being. However, the science provides incontrovertible evidence that climate is changing, affecting hydrological water cycle and consequently the availability for human needs in cities, for irrigation in agriculture, and finally flow regime in the environment. The alteration of the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles will also pose risks in the sphere of ecosystem services and benefits experienced by human society (e.g. food provision, nutrition security, climate regulation, human health, supporting biodiversity).

The purpose of this special issue is to collect and synthesize research that is advancing new insights and multidisciplinary developments in sustainable water management. Possible cross-sectional topics include but are not limited to: water-food-energy nexus, global virtual water, global socio-economic perspective on water management, ecological status of the river basin, water management and ecosystem services perspective, remote sensing technologies and geospatial methods for water management. Submissions addressing climate change impacts in particular are encouraged.

Submissions of primary research, meta-analysis, review and synthesis papers are invited that address:

• Urban water management and urban landscape irrigation
• Water governance in cities
• Socio-economic implications of water scarcity in cities and agriculture
• Basin water allocation planning
• Irrigation management
• Water use efficiency, water allocation, water saving, water productivity
• Irrigation requirements, evapotranspiration and yields
• Precision irrigation
• Novel irrigation advisory services, ICTs and decision support in agriculture
• Wastewater reuse in agriculture
• Water stress and salinity in dry regions
• Impacts of land-use changes and management on the hydrological and erosion processes
• Advances in water balance models
• Modelling pollution fate and transport in rivers and urban water system
• Hydrology in temporary and ephemeral river system
• Urban stormwater hydrology

Dr. Giuseppe Pulighe
Dr. Flavio Lupia
Dr. Huajin Chen
Prof. Dr. Hailong Yin
Guest Editors

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