CALL FOR PAPERS
Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities
PLOS WATER
Submit to PLOS Water’s call for papers to get your Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities research in front of a global, interdisciplinary audience. Submission deadline, February 17, 2023.
Feb
17
2023
GUEST EDITOR
Silvia Bofill-Mas
University of Barcelona
Sustainable Development Goal on water and sanitation seeks to ensure safe drinking water and sanitation for all, focusing on the sustainable management of water resources. It’s time to take into account urban scenarios of water demand and predict the impact of global change in water resources. Understanding the mechanisms leading to improved water management will lead to better policy design and adaptation and will help in the new plans of uses and integrated water management in cities.
SCOPE
Over the next four decades, virtually all global population growth will occur in cities. Urbanization results from natural population increases among city dwellers, rural-to-urban migration, and administrative reclassification through expanding urban boundaries. Each form of city growth has effects on the quality and availability of fresh water in the urban watershed, rates of groundwater recharge, infiltration, runoff, and discharge of pollutants, including microbial pollutants and emergent contaminants.
This call for papers invites submissions from researchers and practitioners in any field or sector that contribute new insights to the theme of fresh water in cities, with particular emphasis on pollution and water quality. We particularly encourage submissions from authors who utilize open science resources such as data and code repositories, and from communities whose voices are historically under-represented in the freshwater field.
RESEARCH TOPICS
- Urban water policy, governance and regulation, including private-sector participation
- Politics of urban water management
- Urban water management, including water sensitive cities
- Economics and finance of urban water management
- Pollution control and remediation in urban watersheds
- Urban wastewater management, including treatment, re-use, and resource recovery
- Urban stormwater runoff and management
- Urban water infrastructure, including green infrastructure
- Water justice in cities and urban watersheds
- Planning, implementation and monitoring of urban water supply and sanitation services
- Community participation in urban watershed management
- Water and wastewater in informal settlements
- Digital technology for urban water management, including IoT and smart metering
JOURNAL INFORMATION
PLOS Water connects researchers across the hydrology, water resources, and water, sanitation and hygiene communities, amplifying a diverse set of voices to influence the global discourse around fresh water. Our journal drives Open Science water research forward to foster a deeper understanding of these interconnected issues, and to empower researchers, local and Indigenous communities, water professionals, and organizations from across the globe to take positive, evidence-based action in order to address some of the most pressing issues our planet faces.
Email questions to water@plos.org
GUEST EDITORS
Abishek S Narayan
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Sílvia Bofill-Mas
University of Barcelona
Jennifer Davis
Stanford University
Pierre Horwitz
Edith Cowan University
As the world continues to rapidly urbanize, cities face the challenge of water insecurity at an unprecedented scale. We urgently need research that comprehensively looks at both the hardware (infrastructure and technological aspects) and the software (service and social aspects) of urban water management. And this first Call for Papers at PLOS Water is a step in the direction in making this knowledge available and accessible to all.
Abishek S Narayan
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
READY TO SUBMIT?
Submit your paper to PLOS Water to be considered for this Collection.
Mention the Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities Call for Papers in your cover letter. The Collection will publish in 2023.
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