Water SI - Watershed Protection and Management

Special Issue Please register at www.sciforum.net Watershed Protection and Management Dear Colleagues, Guest Editors: Prof Dr Joan M Brehm Department of Sociology and Anthropology Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA Prof Dr Brian W Eisenhauer Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, USA Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2016 Watersheds are gaining significant prominence as an important scale to address water quality and quantity issues for the future For example, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides funding for projects that utilize a watershed scale as a mechanism to address non-point source pollution and the adoption of Best Management Practices (BMPs) Watersheds provide an important ecologically relevant scale for research, outreach, and other efforts to address issues of water quality and quantity, especially for growing populations However, watershed-based management also presents many challenges, for example, watershed boundaries not adhere to political boundaries or Special Issue website: mdpi.com/si/water/watershed-protect-manage Publish in Water - Take advantage of: • Open Access (unlimited and free access by readers) • ISI Impact Factor (1.428) • High publicity and more frequent citations (as indicated by several studies) • Thorough peer review • Fast manuscript handling time • Coverage by leading indexing services • Immediate publication upon acceptance • No space constraints (no restriction on the length of the papers,electronic files can be deposited as supplementary material) Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute jurisdictions, and management in such settings often involves collaboration among competing interests and overlapping regulatory directives For successful collaborations, an accurate understanding of the resource is essential, and using the geo-spatial framework of a watershed to frame research and analyses facilitates the development of analytical techniques that can more clearly address growing threats to water quality, such as non-point source pollution (NPS), within bounded systems Similarly, a constituent’s attitudes towards water issues, attachment to place, and other important social factors affecting the management of water resources are well understood at a watershed scale This Special Issue of Water is designed to contribute to the growing body of literature that focuses on the watershed scale as a mechanism to address threats to water quality, as well as serve as effective vectors for water stewardship and conservation The information and analyses are intended to contribute to a better understanding of how we can utilize the watershed scale framework to protect our water resources around the globe and into the future Prof Dr Joan M Brehm Prof Dr Brian W Eisenhauer Special Issue Keywords: • watershed management • watershed protection • non-point source pollution • water quality • policy MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 4057 Basel Switzerland Tel Fax E-mail +41 61 683 77 34 +41 61 302 89 18 water@mdpi.com