Water Footprints: Achieving Sustainable Development Goals serves as a comprehensive resource for professors, students, researchers, water resources planners, and managers working on natural science and engineering, addressing critical issues related to water footprints and their impact on environmental sustainability goals, especially the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Edited by global experts in the field, this book delves into the intricacies of water usage, offering a detailed exploration of its environmental impacts. By incorporating unique case studies and practical applications in every chapter, this book adopts a holistic approach to water use, integrating perspectives from environmental science, agriculture, and engineering. This interdisciplinary approach aims to present sustainable solutions to the growing challenge of ecological constraints while contributing to the achievement of the UN SDGs. Moreover, it addresses current management and policy concerns, highlighting the need for updated governance measures, particularly in light of international frameworks like the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.
Dr. Amit Kumar is a Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He obtained his M.Tech and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and conducted his postdoctoral research at Hohai University, China. Dr. Kumar’s research spans the ecological health of aquatic habitats, water quality modeling, and water security practices to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. He has published five books, including Elsevier’s Climate Change in the Himalayas, and is an advisory board member for the Elsevier journal Ecological Indicators.
Dr. Dafeng Hui is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in botany with an emphasis on ecology from the University of Oklahoma. His research interests lie in the broad areas of plant ecology, global change ecology, ecosystem ecology, and agro-ecology. Dr. Hui has published one book, several book chapters, and 200 papers in scientific journals including Nature, PNAS, Global Change Biology, Ecology, and New Phytologist. He has served as associate/academic editor for Plant Ecology, Journal of Plant Ecology, PLoSOne, The Crop Journal, and Frontier in Environmental Sciences, and on editorial boards of several other journals. Dr. Hui's research has been sponsored by the US NSF, USDA and DOE.
Dr. Lin is a professor of School of Environment and Resources, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. He graduated from Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published 70 papers in Global Change Biology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Science of The Total Environment, Geoderma, Catena, etc. Dr. Lin is currently the young editor of Biochar and Carbon Research, the editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Frontier in Microbiology. Dr. Lin is mainly engaged in climate change and carbon and nitrogen cycle, agricultural waste recycling and soil remediation, and watershed ecology. His research is sponsored by 2 NFSC projects and international cooperation projects such as EU-sustainable farming.
Prof. Tarun Kumar Thakur is a Professor and Head of Department of Environmental Science, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (A Central University), Madhya Pradesh, India. He completed his PhD in 2006 from Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, India. His expertise and practical experience include bioremediation of heavy metals, microplastic pollutants in terrestrial ecosystems, riverine ecosystems, carbon neutrality in forestry etc. He has published more than 50 research and review articles in international journals of repute and completed 7 projects funded by Department of Science & Technology, MOEFCC, MPCST and MP State Biodiversity Board, India. Prof. Thakur is an honorary member of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM).
