Here we present the ‘Show Cases in Water’, a Research Topic series dedicated to case studies that demonstrate comprehensive multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional aspects of water research pertaining to specific problems.
Show Cases include assessment of a problem and articulation of concepts, methodologies, and models that are anchored in hypotheses and supported with open access data (or made available as part of the study). The key feature of these Show Cases is the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, such as involving natural dynamics and human decisions, demonstrated impacts of water policy, cascading of climate risks and their impacts, etc. They provide an opportunity for researchers to document phenomena and related outcomes ‘in-situ’, thus providing insights that may otherwise be concealed as a result of narrow, perhaps disciplinary, exploration. Assessing phenomena and outcomes within a natural or real-life environment provides insight into cascade of interdependencies linked to coupled dynamical behavior. This can be extremely useful for educators, policy and decision-makers, as well as practitioners, who have to take into account how policies, practices, and decisions affect outcomes in the short and long run.
This is particularly important given the heterogeneity of socio-economic, environmental, and climatic factors that drive outcomes associated with the water cycle and related process. Therefore, Frontiers in Water would like to welcome papers that showcase studies supported by data, methodologies, hypotheses, and approaches that serve as exemplars of multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary outcomes pertaining to the water cycle and related systems such as watersheds, ecosystems, water quality, urban environments, critical zone, human health, etc.
Papers submitted to this topic can be from a variety of different article types; however, the core focus must document specific contexts and outcomes, and present all supporting data and computer programs in an open access long-term archive.
Here we present the ‘Show Cases in Water’, a Research Topic series dedicated to case studies that demonstrate comprehensive multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional aspects of water research pertaining to specific problems.
Show Cases include assessment of a problem and articulation of concepts, methodologies, and models that are anchored in hypotheses and supported with open access data (or made available as part of the study). The key feature of these Show Cases is the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, such as involving natural dynamics and human decisions, demonstrated impacts of water policy, cascading of climate risks and their impacts, etc. They provide an opportunity for researchers to document phenomena and related outcomes ‘in-situ’, thus providing insights that may otherwise be concealed as a result of narrow, perhaps disciplinary, exploration. Assessing phenomena and outcomes within a natural or real-life environment provides insight into cascade of interdependencies linked to coupled dynamical behavior. This can be extremely useful for educators, policy and decision-makers, as well as practitioners, who have to take into account how policies, practices, and decisions affect outcomes in the short and long run.
This is particularly important given the heterogeneity of socio-economic, environmental, and climatic factors that drive outcomes associated with the water cycle and related process. Therefore, Frontiers in Water would like to welcome papers that showcase studies supported by data, methodologies, hypotheses, and approaches that serve as exemplars of multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary outcomes pertaining to the water cycle and related systems such as watersheds, ecosystems, water quality, urban environments, critical zone, human health, etc.
Papers submitted to this topic can be from a variety of different article types; however, the core focus must document specific contexts and outcomes, and present all supporting data and computer programs in an open access long-term archive.
