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Sustainable Water Management in Cold Climate River Basins

This Article Collection explores the challenges and solutions related to river management in cold climate regions, with a focus on river regulation, stormwater, wastewater, and Integrated Water Resources Management. We invite contributions that address impacts and mitigation of stormwater runoff in cold conditions, wastewater treatment innovations and integration with surface water protection. Submissions on hydropower system operation, river dynamics, and the cumulative ecological and geomorphological effects of regulated flows in cold regions are also encouraged. This issue also covers nature-based solutions and green infrastructure for cold climate applications, catchment-scale management strategies, including policy and planning tools, monitoring of emerging contaminants and ecological impacts.

Guest Editors:

• Anders Andersson, Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology: Anders G. Andersson is an Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics at Luleå University of Technology, bringing expertise in Ecohydraulics and Fluid Mechanics. His research focuses on the interaction between flow processes and aquatic ecosystems, with an emphasis on advancing sustainable river management. He has worked in many national and international research projects and is heavily involved in the environmental branch of the Swedish Centre for Sustainable Hydropower.

• Gunnar Hellström, Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology: J. Gunnar I. Hellström is an Associate Professor at Luleå University of Technology whose work focuses on fluid mechanics, computational modelling/CFD, and hydro-environmental applications linked to hydropower, hydraulic engineering, fish migration, and flow in porous media. As Guest Editor for the International Journal of River Basin Management, he brings expertise in river hydraulics, ecohydraulics, and regulated river systems, supporting the journal’s cross-sectoral perspective on river and floodplain management.

• Staffan Lundström, Chair Professor Fluid Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology: T. Staffan Lundström is Chair Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Luleå University of Technology. His research spans fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, porous media, and applied modelling, with particular interest in processes relevant to water resources, environmental flows, and engineering applications. He has extensive experience in academic leadership and international collaboration and serves as Chair of the 9th IAHR Europe Congress. As guest editor for the Journal of River Basin Management, he brings a strong interdisciplinary perspective linking fundamental flow physics with practical challenges in river basin management.

• Heléne Österlund, Associate Professor, Luleå University of Technology: Heléne Österlund is an Associate Professor in Urban Water Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. Her research focuses on stormwater and snow quality in urban catchments, including sources and transport pathways of pollutants. She has led and contributed to national and international projects on pollutant sources and their transport and impact on receiving waters, combining field sampling and laboratory experiments, and she serves as Secretary of the IWA International Working Group on Emerging Contaminants.

• Inga Herrmann, Associate Professor, Luleå University of Technology: Inga Herrmann is an Associate Professor in Urban Water Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, with expertise in decentralized wastewater treatment, resource-oriented sanitation systems, and water management in cold climates. She has led and contributed to numerous national and international projects on sustainable water and wastewater solutions and serves as Chair of the IWA Specialist Group on Small Water and Wastewater Systems.

About JRBM

There is a need now more than ever to apply an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach to river basin management as recognised by the UN Watercourses Convention, World Water Vision, World Water Council and Global Water Partnership.

The International Journal of River Basin Management addresses this need. It brings together research dedicated to all aspects of integrated river and floodplain management including catchments, wetlands and estuarine systems.

IAHR Journals provide thought leadership and a platform to report on new research and exchange technical and professional knowledge on the hydro-environment. Publishing in IAHR journals provides citable, peer-reviewed credit to authors.

Since its first journal founded in 1963, the IAHR portfolio of journals has been expanded in line with the changing fields of hydro-environment engineering and water resources management, including a regional focus.

IAHR journals enjoy from the reputation of a learned society that looks after a rigorous peer-review process, selects the best editors and associate editors in their field and are published by renown international publishers Taylor and Francis and Elsevier.