This book is designed to be the introductory work in the new Sustainable Development of Water Resource and Environmental Management Series and provides an in-depth look at sustainable development and management in the water sector across.

In the face of current global changes, the availability and quality of water resources are under severe threat.

Indeed, in all sectors related to water resources management, sustainable development is important for present and future generations.

This book includes selected papers from the 5th International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Management (WREM 2022) and consists of themes pertaining to water resource and environmental management.

It provides readers with comprehensive information on the principles of sustainable water resources management, as well as recent advances, directions for future research, and policy development for sustainable water resources management. As a reference, it is of interest to students, scientists, engineers, government officials, and water resource managers.

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Dr. Haoqing Xu: Since December 2018, Dr. Haoqing Xu has worked as Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He also takes the duty as Deputy Director of the Department at the moment. His research fields are Environmental Geotechnical Engineering, Marine Geotechnical Engineering, and Geotechnical Engineering Testing. He has published more than 20 academic papers in scientific and technical journals, both Chinese and international, such as Environmental Geotechnics, Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Materials Letters, Applied Clay Science, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. He has already presided over more than 8 projects, such as the Youth Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Program of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Surface Project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the Youth Project of Jiangsu Province Basic Research Program (Natural Science Foundation), the Cooperation Project of University-Industry Research of Jiangsu Province China. Besides scientific research activities, he also commits to teaching environmental and geotechnical engineering, i.e., Geotechnics and Foundation (undergraduate), Introduction to Environmental Geotechnical Engineering (undergraduate), Geological Hazard Management (undergraduate), Awareness Practicum (undergraduate), and Environmental Geotechnical Engineering (graduate).