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Water Management in a Changing Climate

This issue showcases state-of-the-art advancements on Persistent, emerging, and organic pollutants (PEOPs) especially within the climate change context. 

Persistent, emerging, and organic pollutants (PEOPs) pose ecological and health risks due to their persistent, toxic, carcinogenic, and/or bio-accumulative properties and associated long-term ecological and health risks. Many are not regulated or legislated, mainly due to the lack of in-depth knowledge about their fate, transport, impact, or corresponding lack of effective management and mitigation. These emerging pollutants are found in air, surface water, groundwater, ice caps, oceans, soils, and sediments, and there is increasing evidence of their toxicity at all trophic levels, highlighting an urgent need for effective management and mitigation approaches globally. The topic becomes ever challenging in the context of climate change and important for science and policy.

This special issue resulted from the LEADERS & PEOPLE 2020 Virtual Symposium on August 30 - September 1

Guest Editors:
Dr. Chunjiang An, Concordia University, Canada, chunjiang.an@concordia.ca
Dr. R. Stephen Brown, Queen’s University, Canada, stephen.brown@chem.queensu.ca
Dr. Wendy Huang, University of Calgary, Canada, wendy.huang3@ucalgary.ca
Dr. Weiyun Lin, Memorial University, Canada, peoplenetwork@mun.ca
Dr. Helen Zhang, Memorial University, Canada, bzhang@mun.ca

Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines

  1. Globally, hydroclimatic variables have been changed due to human activities and have an impact on agricultural production and water resource management. This study investigated the spatio-temporal variability ...

    Authors: Meaza Kassahun Zegeye, Kassahun Ture Bekitie and Dessie Nedaw Hailu
    Citation: Environmental Systems Research 2022 11:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. For sustainable climate hazard management, climate information at the local level is crucial for developing countries like Ethiopia, which has an exceptionally low adaptive capacity to changes in climate. As a...

    Authors: Mezgebu Mewded, Adane Abebe, Seifu Tilahun and Zeleke Agide
    Citation: Environmental Systems Research 2022 11:10
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  3. The increasing oil demand and busy waterways highlight the importance of oil spill preparedness and responses. Dispersants attract attention as an effective response tool to manage the impacts of major spill i...

    Authors: Francois Merlin, Zhiwen Zhu, Min Yang, Bing Chen, Kenneth Lee, Michel C. Boufadel, Lisa Isaacman and Baiyu Zhang
    Citation: Environmental Systems Research 2021 10:37
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Systems Research 2023 12:19

  4. Biofilm communities on intertidal mudflats are recognized as major producers of nutrients, especially fatty acids. The rising threats posed by both climatic and anthropogenic stressors increase the necessity o...

    Authors: Jessica E. Ollinik, Candice C. Chua, Pamela Brunswick, Robert W. Elner, Oxana Blajkevitch, Marcus Kim, Graham van Aggelen, Mark C. Drever and Dayue Shang
    Citation: Environmental Systems Research 2021 10:30
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. Over the past decades, a large amount of petroleum pollutants has been released into the environment resulting from various activities related to petrochemicals. The discharge of wastewater with petrochemicals...

    Authors: Azar Vahabisani and Chunjiang An
    Citation: Environmental Systems Research 2021 10:25
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Systems Research 2023 12:20