This Research Topic is focused on water economics as a tool to manage water cycle, ensuring ecosystems conservation, and meeting water demands. The current climate situation compromise the availability of water for both ecosystems and human activities. Based on this, water economics is essential to improve decision-making process since positive and negative externalities have been considered. Under an academic point of view, assessing the different strategies based on water economics will help stakeholders to encourage awareness on responsible use, consumption, treatment, and reuse of water in each territory.
The main goal is assessing the current state of water economics as a tool to quantify the economic, social and environmental externalities of worldwide water cycle management. Furthermore, this research topic aims to highlight the opportunities to implement the circular economy principles considering the importance of Sustainable Development Goals in terms of water availability and conservation.
- Water and wastewater management in water-scarcity areas.
- Valuation of economic, social and environmental externalities of both non-managed water flows and unsuitable water and wastewater treatment.
- Importance of asset management in water facilities to reduce and avoid costs.
- Circular economy approaches to promote water reuse in agricultural and industry sectors.
- Study of specific cases.
Types of manuscripts: research articles and reviews (state of art)
Keywords:
Water economics; water management; efficiency; sustainability; SDGs; circular economy, environmental and social externalities
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
This Research Topic is focused on water economics as a tool to manage water cycle, ensuring ecosystems conservation, and meeting water demands. The current climate situation compromise the availability of water for both ecosystems and human activities. Based on this, water economics is essential to improve decision-making process since positive and negative externalities have been considered. Under an academic point of view, assessing the different strategies based on water economics will help stakeholders to encourage awareness on responsible use, consumption, treatment, and reuse of water in each territory.
The main goal is assessing the current state of water economics as a tool to quantify the economic, social and environmental externalities of worldwide water cycle management. Furthermore, this research topic aims to highlight the opportunities to implement the circular economy principles considering the importance of Sustainable Development Goals in terms of water availability and conservation.
- Water and wastewater management in water-scarcity areas.
- Valuation of economic, social and environmental externalities of both non-managed water flows and unsuitable water and wastewater treatment.
- Importance of asset management in water facilities to reduce and avoid costs.
- Circular economy approaches to promote water reuse in agricultural and industry sectors.
- Study of specific cases.
Types of manuscripts: research articles and reviews (state of art)
Keywords:
Water economics; water management; efficiency; sustainability; SDGs; circular economy, environmental and social externalities
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.