WRR Special Collection: Equity and Justice in Sustainable Water Resources Management
sfletcher
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/19447973/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2025-000780
Equity and justice are fundamental to the sustainable management of water resources. Hazards such as flooding and water contamination, along with the unequal distribution of water resource benefits, often disproportionately impact historically marginalized and under-resourced communities. As climate change and demographic shifts intensify global water challenges, addressing these disparities is imperative. Advancing scientific understanding of the root causes of water injustice, the extent of current and future inequities, and the effectiveness of potential solutions is essential for fostering just and equitable water management. A diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and knowledge systems are needed.
This special collection aims to identify and address key scientific gaps, providing actionable insights toward advancing equity and justice in water resource management.
Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:
- Framework or Tool Development: New conceptual frameworks, models, or tools to assess and enhance equity and justice in water resource management.
- Community-Based Research: Research co-developed with communities to highlight the importance of diverse knowledge sources and/or advance procedural, distributional, and recognitional dimensions of equity in water management research.
- Systems Analysis: Evaluations of the distributional effects of policy and infrastructure interventions on water access, quality, and hazards, particularly in marginalized and under resourced communities.
- Case Studies: Empirical studies that document inequity or illuminate root causes of injustice, leading to new insights in achieving equitable water management at local, regional, or global scales.
- Interdisciplinary Approaches: Research integrating natural and human dimensions of water systems to advance understanding of water equity and justice.
Special Collection Organizers:
Sarah Fletcher
Stanford University
United States
Afreen Siddiqi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
United States
Marc Muller
EAWAG
Switzerland
Margaret Garcia
Arizona State University
United States
Greg Pierce
UCLA
United States
Josué Medellín-Azuara
University of California, Merced
United States
Andrea Castelletti
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Paul Kirshen
Sarah and TC Members – is flooding from coastal storms considered part of water resources management ?
Tx
Paul
Paul Kirshen, PhD
Professor, School for the Environment
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston MA 02125 USA
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Sarah Fletcher
Hi Paul,
Yes! Flooding of all kinds is in scope.
Best,
Sarah