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Sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems requires a trans-disciplinary approach. The specialty section of Freshwater Science aims to fill this niche. We welcome original submissions aimed at finding solutions to water quality and water quantity problems affecting rivers, lakes and wetlands.
Scope
One of society’s great challenges is to balance the water needs for humans and nature. However, it is increasingly evident from recent global analyses that past approaches to water resource management have failed to address the threats to rivers and wetlands from human activities, and that the situation will worsen as demands for water, food and energy rise. These impacts are compounded by climate change, which is also affecting freshwater ecosystems in regions that are relatively unimpaired by human development. Science to underpin water resource management has struggled to keep pace with this challenge, in part because it has evolved along divergent paths: one focused primarily on human water security (e.g. safe supply, sanitation and hygiene, managing flood risk) and largely the realm of the engineering professions; the other more firmly grounded in the ecological sciences but increasingly drawing on the social sciences and economics to address the growing interest in quantifying ecosystem services. Sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems requires a stronger trans-disciplinary approach. The specialty section of Freshwater Science under Frontiers in Environmental Science aims to fill this niche. We welcome original submissions aimed at finding solutions to water quality and water quantity problems affecting rivers, lakes and wetlands (including groundwater-dependent surface water systems). We seek papers that improve our understanding of the causal links between human activities (including climate change) and freshwater ecosystem responses, and improve our capability to predict how systems will respond to future management interventions. We particularly encourage submissions that bring together biophysical scientists, engineers and/or social scientists to address complex water management problems. Our ultimate aim is to foster collaboration among water professionals and promote the science to underpin the Sustainable Development goals for freshwater.Indexed in: Scopus, Google Scholar, DOAJ, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), AGRICOLA, Proquest ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
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Freshwater Science welcomes submissions of the following article types: Correction, Data Report, Editorial, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Policy Brief, Protocols, Review, Systematic Review and Technology Report.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Freshwater Science, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Freshwater Science will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Environmental Science.
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