Special Issue entitled " Integrated Watershed Management Modeling" call for papers
David Kirschtel
Dear Colleagues,
We are serving as guest editors for the Special Issue entitled " Integrated Watershed Management Modeling" currently running on the journal Water (ISSN 2073-4441, IF 2.524).
Watersheds consists of terrestrial and aquatic systems. Natural biogeochemical and hydrological processes interact with social and economic drivers through land-use change and human activities at different scales. Social scientists and economists have different approaches to study land-use and land-use change. Policy makers and social scientists have together identified the need to explore the potential indicators of how human activities and climate change affect land use change and associated impacts, such as sediment, water quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and toxic substances transferred by the agriculture and industry to the river, and hydrological and weather extremes. Therefore, the tranditional approaches are insufficient to understand a river basin system for sustainable development and watershed management. By using an integrated model, greater levels of realism can be incorporated to analyze and evaluate how the biogeochemical, hydrological and social processes interact. We face now the challenge of developing integrated modelling frameworks to provide quantitative evidence for policymakers on water management issues. This Special Issue of Water invites innovative scientific contributions that tackle integrated watershed modelling and management for policy identification and assessment, including quantifying the response of watersheds to policy interventions, land use change or climate change; addressing the nexus between water, energy, food, climate change and the environment; characterizing the role of modelling in decision making, formalizing their interactions, or improving the theoretical understanding of complex adaptive systems. We invite contributions that address these and other challenges with a focus on watershed modelling and management from local, regional, or global perspectives.
The submission deadline is March 31, 2021. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance and discuss APC discount. (spoon...@mdpi.com).
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Watershed_Management_Modeling
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We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Prof. Junye Wang
Athabasca University, AB, Canada
Dr. Narayan Kumar Shrestha
University of Guelph, ON, Canada