Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027
Collection Editors:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oybek Vokhidov
Affiliation: Department of Pumping Stations and Hydropower Plants, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, National Research University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8786-0078
Research Interests: Sustainable Water Resources Management; Environmental Hydraulics; River Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics; Numerical Modelling of Sediment Transport; Water Infrastructure–Ecosystem Interactions; Environmental Assessment of Hydraulic Structures; Aquatic Ecosystem Sustainability; Climate-Resilient Water Systems; Ecological Assessment of River and Irrigation Systems.
Prof. Dr. Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin
Affiliation: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1196-8004
Research Interests: Sustainable Civil and Environmental Engineering; Structural Reliability and Resilience; Numerical Modelling of Engineering Structures; Environmental Assessment of Infrastructure Development; Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies; Climate-Resilient Infrastructure; Infrastructure Life-Cycle Assessment; Resource-Efficient Construction Practices.
Topical Collection Information:
Dear Colleagues,
Water infrastructure plays a central role in sustaining water security, ecosystem services and socio-economic development. However, changing hydrological regimes, sediment dynamics, climate variability, infrastructure ageing and growing human pressures increasingly challenge the ecological integrity and operational resilience of rivers, reservoirs, irrigation networks and associated aquatic environments.
This Topical Collection aims to bring together original research and critical reviews on the interactions between water infrastructure and aquatic ecosystems, with particular emphasis on numerical and experimental modelling, environmental impact assessment, ecosystem monitoring, nature-based and engineering solutions, and strategies for improving ecological resilience. It welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that connect hydraulic and water-resources engineering with environmental science, aquatic ecology and sustainable management.
Potential topics include hydrological, hydrodynamic and sediment-transport modelling; river morphology and environmental flows; environmental consequences of dams, reservoirs, pumping stations, canals and water-intake structures; water quality and aquatic habitat assessment; remote sensing, GIS, artificial intelligence and data-driven environmental monitoring; climate-change adaptation and ecosystem resilience; ecological restoration; and sustainable operation and management of water infrastructure.
The collection is associated with the International Conference on Innovative Water Resources Management and Civil Engineering (IWRMCE 2027), to be held online on 14–16 January 2027. It welcomes relevant contributions from conference participants and researchers worldwide. Conference-related submissions should be developed into substantial, original journal manuscripts and will be subject to the journal’s standard editorial screening and independent peer-review procedures. Acceptance is not guaranteed by conference participation.
We invite researchers and practitioners to submit rigorous, scientifically sound contributions that advance understanding of water infrastructure–ecosystem interactions and offer practical insights for environmentally responsible water management.
Collection Editors
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oybek Vokhidov
Prof. Dr. Nikolai Vatin
Keywords:
- Water infrastructure and aquatic ecosystems
- Hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling
- Environmental impact assessment
- Sediment transport and river morphology
- Aquatic ecology and water quality
- Climate change adaptation and ecological resilience
- Remote sensing, GIS and AI-based monitoring
- Sustainable water resources management