Submission Deadline: 31st December 2023
The special collection aims to provide a platform to explore how the results of new academic work can be effectively translated into practical solutions that help water practitioners address the problems they face. This will provide an informed discussion on how the results of current water research can influence the practical delivery of water services, such as exploring how they can provide required transformational changes or significant efficiency gains. A key focus is identifying the barriers and opportunities for implementing new and novel solutions to water-related problems and sharing experiences of case studies where such solutions have already been adopted across existing water systems.
Articles may highlight barriers and constraints in implementing solutions and report successful initiatives and practical experiences. They also may examine the current strengths and weaknesses of both conventional and novel approaches to delivering water services and protecting the natural environment. Contributions are welcome from the academic community and particularly from practitioners such as watershed managers, regulators, utility organisations, NGOs, government agencies, consultancies, treatment plant operators, planners, and policymakers.
In this special collection, we welcome articles covering but not restricted to the following themes:
- Experience implementing recent research innovations in any aspect of water management practice.
- Forthcoming changes in the regulatory, standards, legal and policy environment affecting water practice.
- Proposals on possible policy options or arguments for courses of action.
- Appraisal of how specific interventions and solutions might have consequences across a wider set of concerns and resource sectors (such as energy, land and climate)
- System implications which capture effects across multiple areas, often involving several different disciplines and actors/stakeholders.
Guest Editors:
Co-editor in Chief, Cambridge Prisms: Water
Professor of Engineering Sustainability, University of Cambridge
Co-editor in Chief, Cambridge Prisms: Water
CEO, KWR Water Research Institute, Netherlands
Professor of Hydroinformatics, University of Exeter
Keywords: Multidisciplinary Research, Translational Research, Solution focused, Efficiency Gains, Water Decision making, Water Policies, Environmental Protection, Systems implication, Water Initiatives.
Submission Guidelines/Instructions
Kindly refer to the Author Guidelines while preparing and submitting your manuscript. Authors who are Water industry experts and practitioners are welcome to contact the editorial office for further guidance on preparing their manuscript. At the point of submission on scholarOne, please answer the question, “Are you submitting to a Special Issue?”
All articles submitted by September 30th 2023, will automatically qualify for a full APC waiver.