River is aimed to be an open-access international journal featuring overarching, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral, and embracing the entire natural and social system related to river, meandering through the whole journey of river from source to sea, involving in all related domains and issues including river science, technology, engineering, governance and strategies. River explores the academic frontiers, hot topics and daunting challenges of the time, and demonstrates the innovative science and technologies, knowledge and practices that pursue the coordinated natural and social development of rivers on the globe, in a bid to promote the symbiotic flourishing of river systems and human society.
River is hosted by China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) and published in collaboration with Wiley Publishing Group.
River publishes original research findings and contributions of science, technology, engineering and governance which help to deepen human understanding about the natural and social circulations of water as well as the dynamic interaction of the two evolving cycles, encouraging a river governance that strikes a balance between natural restoration and human development.
Contributions to River are expected from but not limited to the following areas:
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Nature of river: research and discoveries about the objective laws of rivers, including the formation of rivers and its geological basis, the water cycling process (river systems, floods, surface water, groundwater and the interactions between them, etc.), fluvial process (riverbed erosion and deposition, river pattern and regime evolvement, river shoreline changes, etc.), water environment process (physical, chemical, and bio-chemical processes, etc.), water ecology process (fish, microbes, alga, plants etc.) as well as the evolving patterns of such processes.
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Engineering of river: research and application of nature based solutions in the engineering of rivers which coordinate natural restoration and social development, considering both the maintenance, reinforcement, upgrade and demolition of existing works and the innovative building of new works featuring green, smart and resilient, in a bid to support the diversified demands of human and nature, such as flood control, hydropower generation, water supply, irrigation and drainage, navigation, environmental protection, ecological restoration, landscape and entertainment, etc.
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Intelligence of river: research and application of innovative modern technologies, such as big data, AI, cloud computing, GIS, remote sensing and satellite, Internet of Things, etc., to empower the rivers by integrating “internet-linked sensors, online algorithms, user-friendly analytics and handheld displays” with traditional physical and numerical modelling, and to build a tool kit for smart river system which allows the real-time monitoring, intelligent modelling and precise decision-making of rivers.
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Governance of river: research and development of integrated management, supervision, policy-making and strategy formulation and implementation of rivers in coping with global challenges including climate changes, population growth, foodshortage, and ecological degradation, etc.; implementation of river scientific regulation and ecological restoration, research, inheritance and development of river history and diversified river culture around the world, and professional training and public education for capacity building and awareness raising, etc., for the reciprocal benefit of both human and nature.
Indexing Information
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COMPENDEX (Elsevier)
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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SCOPUS (Elsevier)
Pubdate: 2024-07-09
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