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New series seeking submissions on water and the SDGs

1 November 2021

UCL Open: Environment journal is inviting submissions to a special series on water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UCL Open: Environment journal

UCL Open: Environment journal is a new open science journal that publishes high-impact submissions across all aspects of environment-related research. “Instead of narrow specifications, we want to showcase radical and critical thinking on real-world issues and promote opportunities for cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research and learning, with the overall aim of benefitting humanity,” explained Professor Dan Osborn (UCL Earth Sciences), the journal’s Editor-in-Chief.

The journal’s special series will focus on SDG6 (Clean Water & Sanitation), SDG13 (Climate Action), SDG14 (Life Below Water) and SDG15 (Life on Land) but welcomes submissions on other SDGs if they address a topic relating to water.

“To achieve the SDGs, we need to strike a balance between the four major competing needs for water: ­the environment, drinking and sanitation, farming, and other businesses and industry,” says the series editor Dr Luiza Campos (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomantic Engineering), who is co-editing the series with Professor Osborn and Daniel Olago, Associate Professor at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Submissions are invited from researchers, practitioners, and policy teams (including non-governmental organisations, think tanks and intergovernmental organisations such as the UN). Articles may be directly concerned with one or more of the water-related SDGs (SDG6, SDG13, SDG14 or SDG15) or other Goals that interact with these four Goals.

They can be scholarly research articles, commentaries on policies or policy programmes, or descriptions of projects and/or their outcomes that are helping deliver the SDGs or change the way we view the planet’s water resources.

“We’d also welcome submissions that examine progress on all the water-related SDGs and whether the indicators and targets within the Goals deliver a more balanced view of water and how it might be best managed in the future,” added Professor Campos.

The first article in the series considered the synergies and trade-offs between sanitation and all 17 SDGs. The second article presents a technical study on measuring the demand for water at major river basins to inform the measurement of freshwater withdrawal for SDG6.

The series will remain open until the end of April 2022.