H2Open Journal Special Issue on
Building Water Resilience: Who, Why, and How
CALL FOR PAPERS
Historically, water security and sustainability have been used to address water-related challenges. However, building resilience is crucial for achieving these goals and ensuring system functioning in the face of shocks and stresses. Water resilience involves strengthening core concepts of security and sustainability while maintaining and enhancing system functioning. This approach is crucial for maintaining the long-term stability of water systems, which are dynamic and interconnected and influence environmental, social, and economic sectors.
This Special Issue focuses on the science of water resilience, exploring its progress, emerging scientific thinking, tools, and practices. Given the increasing frequency and severity of water-related challenges, building water resilience is crucial for achieving water security, sustainability, and beyond. This Special Issue outlines the importance of building water resilience, its core characteristics, and the factors driving vulnerabilities in water systems and how to address them. It invites papers on the science of building water resilience, tools and indicators, and emerging practices and frameworks.
This Special Issue invites papers addressing the six dimensions of resilience characteristics:
- Robustness: The system is designed to perform under high confidence, low-uncertainty risks.
- Redundancy: The system has spare capacity for disruptions or extreme pressures.
- Flexibility: The system can adapt to shocks, stresses, or opportunities.
- Integration: The system components are linked and coordinated while also being isolated.
- Inclusiveness: The system has mechanisms for broad consultation and engagement of individuals and communities.
- Justice and Equity: The system ensures equitable water access, rights, and allowances for all stakeholders.
The Special Issue also invites papers on tools and indicators to measure system resilience, emerging practices, and frameworks. It is relevant for academics, practitioners, businesses, policymakers, NGOs, and basin managers seeking to build water resilience.
Relevant topics include
- Water Risk
- Resilience Indicators
- Justice and Equity
- Climate Change
- Water Security
- Water Accounting
- Water Stewardship
- Nature-Based Solutions
- Water Resilience
- Climate Resilient WASH
Key dates:
Deadline for manuscript submission: 28th February 2025
Expected publication: Papers will be published online as soon as possible after acceptance
How to submit:
Please make sure that your paper follows the Instructions to Authors of the journal, before submitting your paper directly to H2Open Journal’s peer review system. Then choose the article type – ‘Special Issue Article OA’ and the submission category – ‘Special Issue: Building Water Resilience’ This will send your paper to one of the Editors.